Los Angeles Suing Monsanto, 2 Others for Toxic PCBs in Waterways March 8, 2022 By John Antczak The city of Los Angeles is suing Monsanto and two other companies for past and future costs of dealing with...
U.S. Senators Grill Regulators Over Climate Policy on Natural Gas Projects March 3, 2022 By Timothy Gardner Top U.S. senators from both parties on Thursday grilled Democratic energy regulators who recently approved guidelines for approving new natural...
Dakota Access Pipeline Loses Supreme Court Appeal, Leaving Its Future Unclear February 23, 2022 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Energy Transfer LP’s Dakota Access Pipeline, letting stand a ruling that required...
BP Fined $100K for Washington Pipeline Gasoline Spills January 31, 2022 The Washington Department of Ecology is penalizing British Petroleum $100,000 for two Olympic Pipeline gasoline spills in a Seattle suburb....
Monsanto Pleads Guilty to Pesticide-Related Crimes in Hawaii, to Pay $12M in Fines January 10, 2022 By Caleb Jones The Monsanto Co. pleaded guilty to illegally using and storing agricultural chemicals in Hawaii, and will pay $12 million in...
California Attorney Suing Walmart for Illegal Disposal of Hazardous Waste December 21, 2021 California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a statewide lawsuit against Walmart for the illegal disposal of hazardous waste. Bonta was...
Former Montana Mine Official Pleads Guilty to Workplace Accident Coverups December 14, 2021 A former official for a central Montana coal mine plead guilty to conspiring with others to not make required reports...
Safeguards for Leaking California Oil Pipe’s Not Fully Working December 10, 2021 By Brian Melley and Matthew Brown The ruptured offshore pipeline that spilled tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil off the Southern California coast this...
California Turning Down Most Fracking Permits Ahead of 2024 Ban November 29, 2021 California regulators haven’t approved permits for the controversial oil and gas extraction process known as fracking since February, effectively phasing...
Toxic Cables to be Removed from Lake Tahoe Under Settlement with AT&T’s Pac Bell November 29, 2021 By Scott Sonner AT&T’s Pac Bell subsidiary has settled a lawsuit conservationists filed under a U.S. law more typically cited in Superfund cases,...