Source: The State, Columbia, SC, October 8, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com One of the nation’s largest homebuilders has agreed to pay a $625,000 fine for a series of storm water violations at construction sites across the country, including sites in South Carolina, the federal government said Friday. Ryland Homes failed to obtain environmental permits in […]

Read here about the 28,000 pool chemical injuries/illnesses that occurred from 2002 to 2008.

Read here about a Colorado mine spill that prompted an EPA investigation.

Source: Meridian Star (MS), October 5, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The city of Meridian has reached a settlement in a litigation with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality over the operation of the city’s wastewater treatment plant. DEQ was initially going to fine the city around $75,000 for alleged violations in the operation of the plant […]

Source: http://content.usatoday.com, October 3, 2011 By: Douglas Stanglin A massive industrial fire at a chemical processing plant is sending plumes of black smoke into the sky near Waxahachie, in north-central Texas, The Dallas Morning News reports. The fire began before noon at the Magnablend chemical processing plant and quickly spread as a burning liquid. At one […]

Source: Statesville Record & Landmark (NC), October 4, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Statesville City Council approved a settlement plan with the federal government Monday night that calls for the city to pay $25,000 as its share of the clean-up costs of a site contaminated by materials contained in electrical transformers. City Attorney Eddie Gaines […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, September 30, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com One of the most widespread groundwater contaminants in the nation is more dangerous to humans than earlier thought, a federal agency has determined, in a decision that could raise the cost of cleanups nationwide, including large areas of the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys. […]

Read here about cleanup work that is set to begin on a Seattle site, the Duwamish River, ten years after being listed as a Superfund site.

Read here about a West Virginia company that has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a 2010 pollution lawsuit.

Read here about a Texas company that paid a hefty fine for a wetlands violation.

Read here about two New Hampshire companies who will pay $200,000 for Clean Water Act violations.

Read here about a Pennsylvania company that has agreed to a substantial fine for Clean Air Act Violations.