Brazil’s Vale Knew Deadly Tailings Dam Was Unsafe as Far Back as 2003: Report February 24, 2020 By Anthony Boadle and Gram Slattery An independent investigation requested by Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA into the causes of the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster...
Public Consultation Launched to Help Set Global Standards for Tailings Dams November 15, 2019 By Barbara Lewis A six-week public consultation launched [in London] on Friday will help set global standards to improve mining safety, aiming to...
Vale’s ‘Negligence’ May Have Cost Lives, Says Brazil Mining Regulator November 12, 2019 By Jake Spring and Christian Plumb Brazil’s mining regulator on Tuesday blasted iron ore miner Vale SA for failing to disclose problems with a mining dam...
Vale CEO Received Emailed Warning Ahead of Brazil Dam Collapse: Report November 5, 2019 By Christian Plumb The former chief executive of Brazilian iron ore miner Vale received an anonymous email weeks before the deadly collapse of...
Ex-DuPont CEO Claims No Intent to Burden Chemours with Unlimited Liabilities October 24, 2019 By Jef Feeley DuPont de Nemours Inc. never intended to saddle its spinoff Chemours Co. with “unlimited exposure” to its liabilities, DuPont’s former...
Carnival Cruise Line Under Renewed Pressure to Comply with Environmental Rules October 4, 2019 By Curt Anderson A federal judge pushed top Carnival Corp. executives on Wednesday to work faster to fix ocean pollution problems caused by...
Brazil Police Accuse Mining Firm Vale, Auditor of Fraud Related to Deadly Dam Collapse September 23, 2019 By Marta Nogueira Brazilian federal police proposed criminal charges against Vale SA, auditor TÜV SÜD and 13 of their employees, alleging fraud in...
Waste from Chinese-Owned Nickel Plant Spills into Papua New Guinea Bay August 29, 2019 By Melanie Burton and Tom Daly Waste from a nickel plant in Papua New Guinea owned by Metallurgical Corporation of China spilled into the adjacent Basamuk...
Mining Firm Vale Must Fix All Damages from Deadly Dam Collapse: Brazil Court July 10, 2019 A Brazilian state judge on Tuesday convicted mining company Vale SA for damages caused by the deadly rupture of a...
Aging Oil Pipelines Operated by Canada’s Enbridge Raise Fears over Great Lakes Spills June 10, 2019 By Rod Nickel and Nia Williams Fears about oil spills into the Great Lakes from two aging U.S. pipelines have flared, raising doubts about their future...