Environmental groups, state regulators, a waste company and others oppose a federal plan to let disposal sites that aren’t specifically licensed for radioactive waste request an exception to take in the waste.
Read more
The Oakland A’s baseball team sued California’s toxic waste department Wednesday, claiming it has failed to rein in pollution generated by Schnitzer Steel — a multinational company operating the largest metal-shredding facility in the state next to the team’s proposed future waterfront home.
Read moreCG Roxane, the bottler of Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine Spring Water, must pay $5 million for illegally storing and transporting hazardous waste created from filtering arsenic out of spring water at its facility in Olancha, California, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreA federal judge in California ordered Treasure Island residents to amend their conclusory allegations that various entities knew radiation levels on the island were significantly higher than the Navy disclosed to the public.
Read more
New toxins and chemicals entering the market are bombarding the ocean and its inhabitants on a scale never seen. So researchers have turned to stranded dolphins and whales to determine the impact of plastics and other pollutants on marine life.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit upheld the EPA’s addition of the Rockwell International Wheel & Trim facility in Grenada, Mississippi, to the National Priorities List identifying hazardous waste sites in urgent need of environmental cleanup.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit ruled that an acid manufacturing plant cannot claim it was unforeseeable that nearby workers would inhale poisonous gas discharged into the air and develop respiratory illness.
Read moreIn a late ruling Wednesday, a federal judge found the Bureau of Land Management failed to act rationally when it rescinded an Obama-era rule imposing certain waste prevention requirements that it deemed unduly burdensome on the oil and gas industry.
Read moreA federal court in California ruled that a resident of the Marina district in San Francisco may pursue his claim under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act against Pacific Gas and Electric relating to hazardous waste left in the area by the company’s plants 100 years ago. The man has standing to sue based on his “recreational and aesthetic interests.”
Read more
Opponents of a plan to ship highly radioactive nuclear waste from power plants across the U.S. to a site in rural New Mexico elevated their fight Thursday with a lawsuit against the federal regulators considering the plan.
Read more
A federal review of a plan to move highly radioactive nuclear waste to rural West Texas from sites across the U.S. has concluded that regulators should approve the plan because it would not lead to significant environmental problems.
Read more
A lawsuit claiming the Environmental Protection Agency’s water pollution standards for slaughterhouses are outdated will move forward, the Fourth Circuit ruled.
Read more
The Trump administration appeared to execute an about-face on the use of Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump facility after the president tweeted reassurance to Nevadans that he would drop a proposal to resurrect the site.
Read more
Ten U.S. oil refineries were in late 2019 spewing levels of the cancer-causing pollutant benzene above a regulatory limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency, an environmental group said in a report released Thursday.
Read moreA federal class action claims Kerr McGee Chemical Corp., Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Occidental Petroleum Corp., BNSF Railway Co. and International Paper Co. dumped toxic chemicals from creosote wood treatment processes for years across multiple states.
Read moreCoeur Rochester sued the U.S. Department of Energy in federal court, claiming its long-delayed yet still hasty and sloppy regulations on mercury storage and disposal are irrational and illegal.
Read more
One of the companies responsible for polluting an 80-mile stretch of river and floodplains in southwestern Michigan with toxic chemicals will pay at least $245.2 million to advance a cleanup effort that began more than 20 years ago, federal officials said Wednesday.
Read more
As a plan to ship highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to a remote corner of the West Texas desert slogs its way through government bureaucracy, environmental groups’ hopes of having a say in the matter appear to be vanishing.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the enforcement of a judgment of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Court of Appeals, which ruled that FMC Corporation – a chemical manufacturer – must pay an annual use permit fee for storing “radioactive, carcinogenic, and poisonous” waste within the Fort Hall Reservation.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency cannot ignore “legacy uses” of chemicals when evaluating their impact on public health, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday while upholding most new rules for reviewing toxic substances.
Read more