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EPA prosecutes New England companies for Clean Air Act violations
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Two New England companies that store and distribute hazardous chemicals will pay more than $179,000 in penalties and donate about $43,000 worth of equipment and training, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday. -
Feds collect fine from GM for Superfund cleanup
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - The federal government has entered into a an agreement with a successor trust to the Chapter 11 debtor Motors Liquidation Company ("Old GM"), formerly known as General Motors Corporation. -
Companies agree to fund cleanup of PVC site
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement with the current and former operators of a Superfund site in Pennsylvania. -
EPA to begin water sampling in Pa. town
ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will take water samples from at nearly 60 homes in the Carter Road/Meshoppen Creek Road area of Dimock, Pa. to further assess whether any residents are being exposed to hazardous substances. -
Companies settle dumping allegations
Kilmartin SMITHFIELD, R.I. (Legal Newsline) - Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin announced a settlement on Friday between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and several companies that allegedly dumped waste at a site in Smithfield. -
Appeals court grants stay of new pollution rule
Abbott AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced a decision on Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to grant the state's request to stay the cross-state air pollution rule. -
EPA announces new clean air standards
Borelli WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Environmental Protection Agency announced new mercury and air toxics standards -- the first national standards related to power plant emissions. -
Texas oil company fined $12M for violations in Louisiana
LAFAYETTE, La. (Legal Newsline) - Houston-based Pelican Refining Co. has been fined $12 million for felony violations of the Clean Air Act at its Louisiana refinery. -
Pruitt to appeal EPA decision to implement haze plan
Pruitt OKLAHOMA CITY (Legal Newsline) - Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said Wednesday he would appeal a decision by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to institute its own regional haze plan in the state's Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. -
EPA awards more than $1 million in environmental justice grants
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it awarded more than $1 million in "environmental justice" grants to 46 non-profit and tribal organizations. -
W.Va. SC rejects claim for medical monitoring
Chief Justice Margaret Workman CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Seven years of searching for witnesses and evidence didn't turn up enough of either to save a suit for medical monitoring of everyone who worked or played at Omar Elementary School in Chauncey, W.Va., since 1964. -
BP to pay $426,500 penalty
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced Tuesday that several subsidiaries of the energy giant BP America Inc. have agreed to pay a $426,500 penalty. -
Lafarge must create environmental executives as condition of EPA settlement
Giles RESTON, Va. (Legal Newsline) - The Environmental Protection Agency has settled with Lafarge North America Inc., a large construction materials supplier in the United States and Canada, as well as four of its U.S. subsidiaries, to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations. -
EPA says DuPont to pay $500k pollution penalty
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The Environmental Protection Agency announced that DuPont Corp. has agreed to pay a $500,000 penalty for pollution violations at its Edge Moor plant site. -
Calif. group challenging EPA's emissions standards
Obama WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A California-based watchdog group has filed a lwsuit on behalf of small businesses and trade organizations that challenges the Obama administration's greenhouse emissions standards for heavy-duty and medium-duty vehicles. -
Iowa AG's suit results in $30K penalty
Miller OTTUMWA, Iowa (Legal Newsline) - Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller announced on Tuesday that a Blairsburg company will pay a $30,000 penalty for allegedly discharging wastewater illegally. -
Texas AG says Obama, EPA need to cool it with regulations
Abbott AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is wondering why the federal government isn't using his state's plan as a model for creating jobs. -
DeWine weighs in on brine treatment permits
DeWine COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced on Tuesday that he has determined that certain permits governing treatment and disposal of brine from oil and gas wells were not issued legally. -
Ohio company settles pollution allegations
DeWine AKRON, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced a settlement on Monday with an Akron dry cleaning business that allegedly violated Ohio's air pollution control laws. -
Ohio AG seeks shutdown of refinery
DeWine COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced Friday that his office is seeking the temporary shutdown of a Columbia petroleum product refinery for alleged air pollution violations.