Oakland A’s Lawsuit Over Toxic Waste Survives
The ruling coming just days after the state ordered a scrap metal facility to clean up the site near where the A’s plan to build their new stadium.
Read moreThe ruling coming just days after the state ordered a scrap metal facility to clean up the site near where the A’s plan to build their new stadium.
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Read moreCalifornia reached a $4.1 million settlement with Schnitzer Steel Industries over claims the company violated environmental laws while operating its metal shredding and recycling facility in West Oakland.
Read moreA draft investigation report into the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, adopted by Japanese nuclear regulators Wednesday, says it has detected dangerously high levels of radioactive contamination at two of the three reactors, adding to concerns about decommissioning challenges.
Read moreFederal regulators are withdrawing a nuclear waste proposal that had prompted an unusually widespread chorus of opposition, including from those who worried the plan could have led to toxic waste being shipped to local landfills across the U.S.
Read moreDuring the Covid-19 pandemic, 3D printers have been widely used to produce face shields, respirators and other personal protective equipment, but the manufacturing device also poses some health hazards for humans, according to new research presented Tuesday.
Read moreSparking criticism from environmentalists, the outgoing Trump administration said Wednesday it will not require power plants, chemical manufacturers and oil and gas producers to have insurance covering toxic waste cleanups.
Read morePacific Gas and Electric must face claims that a gas plant operated by its predecessors more than 100 years ago continues to leak harmful toxins into the San Francisco Bay, a federal judge has ruled.
Read moreCalifornia lawmakers excoriated the state agency tasked with cleaning up the neighborhoods surrounding a shuttered battery recycling plant, blasting cost overruns and the excruciatingly slow pace of operations.
Read moreCoal ash, a top polluting waste in the United States second only to household trash, is flowing unchecked from power plants under President Donald Trump, nine conservation groups suing the Environmental Protection Agency claimed Monday.
Read moreCleaning up the abandoned Exide battery recycling plant in Los Angeles County will cost California taxpayers nearly $400 million dollars in addition to other costs the state has already paid and the regulatory agency in charge is woefully behind schedule, the state auditor found.
Read moreA Russian official said Monday that the sea off the remote Kamchatka peninsula may have been contaminated with toxic chemicals as Greenpeace warned of an “ecological disaster” for marine life.
Read moreNASA announced plans Friday to clean up a Cold War-era rocket fuel testing site in Southern California — plans that have upset residents who say the space agency and the Trump administration have punted any responsibility for a full cleanup and will leave most of the area contaminated.
Read moreTexas Governor Greg Abbott has come out against two rival plans to ship highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to sites on the Texas-New Mexico border, saying either plan would be unsafe and would threaten the region’s sprawling Permian Basin oilfield.
Read moreRio Tinto is facing accusations it “side-stepped” responsibility to clean up poisonous waste from a closed mine on Papua New Guinea’s Bougainville island in a complaint filed Tuesday in Australia.
Read moreEnvironmental 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 moreThe 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.
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