Read here about an Indiana landfill that the EPA would like to add to its Superfund cleanup list.

Read here about a zinc site in Illinois that has been proposed by the EPA for addition to the Superfund’s National Priorities List.

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 9, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The provincial Canadian government of Quebec said it would halt most new natural-gas exploration and development following an environmental assessment of shale-gas extraction that called for further studies, putting a fresh regulatory spotlight on the method amid recent environmental worries in the U.S. The […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, October 6, 2006 By: Roberto Ceniceros The operator of a hazardous materials facility that burned late Thursday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents near Raleigh, N.C., has a pollution liability policy with a $28 million aggregate limit issued by American International Specialty Lines Insurance Co., among other coverages, documents show. American International […]

Source: http://www.sierraclub.org, May/June 2006 By: Marilyn Berlin Snell At 75, Joe Piñón still wears a crisp white lab coat and fills prescriptions at the pharmacy he’s owned in El Paso, Texas, since 1960. His oversize glasses, helpful in deciphering a doctor’s chicken scratch, lend him an owlish appearance; his soft voice only hints that he’s also […]

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com, May 18, 2007 By: Nathan Koppel A ruling issued today in a New Jersey state court marked a win for insurers who challenged an asbestos “pre-packaged” bankruptcy. The case, which concerns the 2003 bankruptcy of Congoleum Corporation, has been followed closely by combatants in the asbestos prepackaged arena. Some companies that have faced […]

Source: http://www.envirovaluation.org, June 8, 2006 Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager announced today that her office has filed a complaint and settlement in an environmental protection enforcement lawsuit against Watertown Tire Recyclers LLC for violations of the state’s solid waste management laws. The Dodge County company will pay $320,000 in penalties and costs for violations at its tire […]

Read here about a steel plant in Berkeley, California that was served with two lawsuits alleging the plant made people sick.

Source: http://enr.construction.com, October 31, 2007 In two plea agreements with the U.S. Justice Dept., energy giant BP Products North America Inc. agreed on Oct. 25 to pay a $62-million criminal fine for a 2005 explosion at a Texas refinery that killed 15 people and for petroleum pipeline spills last year on Alaska’s North Slope. BP […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, August 7, 2006 By: Thomas F. Armistead A smelter in Canada is liable under U.S. Superfund law for the cleanup of pollution flushed across the international border, a federal appeals court has ruled. The July 2 decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals adds the force of law to […]

Read here about how a cluster of cancer cases in Massachusetts has been linked to a former textile site where kids used to play.

Read here about how a build up of chemical vapors was cited as the cause of a pint factory explosion in Massachusetts.