January 20, 2021
Corteva, a spinoff that took over DuPont’s agriculture division, will contest the charges against DuPont stemming from a 2014 poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston-area plant. A former DuPont employee has also been charged. Four employees …
January 20, 2021
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. Inc. (DuPont) and a former employee have been indicted for knowingly violating requirements of federal safety regulations and negligently releasing an extremely hazardous substance at the company’s plant in LaPorte, Texas. U.S. …
March 18, 2020
A Louisiana chemical plant that agreed to lower its emissions of a potentially harmful toxin now wants to raise them based on research indicating the compound is safe at much higher levels than what federal environmental officials previously said. The …
February 10, 2020
An environmental nonprofit has released an analysis of first-of-its-kind air monitoring data that shows benzene levels at 10 U.S. petroleum refineries exceeded limits Eight years ago, two environmental nonprofits sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The agency was a decade …