The 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 moreThe Justice Department said Friday that Dow Chemical Company has agreed to pay $77 million to restore wildlife habitats damaged by toxic chemicals released from its facility in central Michigan.
Read moreA relatively quiet proceeding underway at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission could open a new chapter in a years-long debate about whether Texas should help solve the nation’s nuclear waste problem.
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Italian officials warned Wednesday Rome’s burgeoning garbage crisis constituted a health risk, as rat control services worked overtime and the waste-collection company board resigned.
Read moreFour counties sued California Resources Corp. in Ventura County Court, claiming it violated environmental and hazardous waste-disposal rules after acquiring gas and oil assets and liabilities from Occidental Petroleum.
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Threatening to derail the project, an environmental analysis found arsenic contamination more than double the legal limit at the site of David Beckham’s proposed $1 billion Major League Soccer complex in Miami.
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New Mexico’s Environment Department and attorney general filed an injunction asking that the U.S. Air Force be compelled to quickly clean up contamination from toxic firefighting foam that lingers in the ground around Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases.
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Nevada’s governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department to look again at seismic risks of burying the nation’s most radioactive nuclear waste at a site in the Mojave Desert.
Read moreAutoZone will pay California $11 million to settle claims that it illegally disposed millions of hazardous-waste items.
Read moreDiving into a decades-long stalemate, federal lawmakers considered three bills Thursday that take different approaches to the storage and disposal of America’s nuclear waste.
Read moreThe federal government on Wednesday reclassifed some of the nation’s most dangerous radioactive waste to reduce its threat level, outraging critics who say the move will make it cheaper and easier to walk away from cleaning up nuclear weapons production sites in Washington state, Idaho and South Carolina.
Read moreClaiming that they and and the environment were exposed to dangerous toxins, 15 named plaintiffs brought a federal class action against The 3M Co., DuPont and others that manufactured and sold Aqueous Film Forming Foam and related materials in and around Oscoda, Michigan.
Read moreCompanies specializing in nuclear demolition and radioactive waste storage are buying up aging U.S. reactors and promising to decommission them in dramatically less time than their utility owners had planned — eight years instead of 60 in some cases.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel hinted Thursday it might toss parts of Trump administration rules for evaluating 80,000 toxic chemicals, allegedly written to minimize the chemicals’ health risks so they won’t be restricted or banned.
Read moreNew Mexico’s top prosecutor is demanding that the U.S. Air Force close a publicly accessible lake at Holloman Air Force Base, saying the concentration of hazardous chemicals at the site poses a risk to public health and the environment.
Read moreThe Trump administration can no longer delay enforcement of Obama-era rules aimed at curbing hazardous air pollution from landfills in California and across the nation, a federal judge has ruled – and took the rare step of demanding status reports every 90 days until the rules are in place.
Read moreLos Angeles County reached a $1.82 million settlement with Wiley Sanders Truck Lines over its unlawful transportation of lead-contaminated plastic battery chips to a site in Bakersfield.
Read moreWaste-handling companies brought a federal complaint Tuesday against the Baltimore city government, claiming it violated their constitutional rights “by imposing extraordinarily low emission limits” in an effort to shut down two of the city’s major waste incinerators.
Read moreA federal judge Thursday appeared ready to order the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce carcinogenic air pollutants emitted by municipal solid-waste landfills nationwide, 1½ years after the EPA refused to comply with its own mandate to do so.
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