Source: BestWire Services, October 10, 2006 By David Dankwa Companies that transported hazardous chemicals to a North Carolina waste plant that exploded Oct. 5, sending a mushroom cloud of noxious gases and flames into the night sky, could find themselves defending against potential lawsuits stemming from the incident, experts say. That’s because under the Resource […]

Source: The Hartford Courant, August 14, 2008 The issue of contamination from lead bullets and shotgun pellets has been cropping up for years around the country, and there have been several lawsuits involving federal environmental laws that have prompted ranges to close and, in some cases, forced them to clean up the lead. The federal […]

Source: http://www.pottstownmercury.com, January 23, 2007 By: Evan Brandt Monitoring has found dangerously high levels of a carcinogenic chemical in the air around Collegeville, state officials have announced. The levels are higher than anywhere else in the region and the state is now trying to reduce emissions of that chemical from two local factories. The chemical […]

Source: http://articles.philly.com, July 19,2007 By: Tom Avril A Montgomery County plant spewed 2,400 pounds of toxic TCE last week, according to a revised report. A Montgomery County manufacturer allowed the escape of more than 2,400 pounds of toxic gas into the air over a 2 1/2-hour period – more than 60 times the allowed amount, […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, March 19, 2008 Columbia, Md.-based W.R. Grace has agreed to pay $250 million, the highest sum in the history of the Superfund program, to help pay cleanup costs of asbestos contamination in Libby, Mont. The settlement, announced on March 11 by the U.S. Justice Dept. and Environmental Protection Agency, would settle the federal government’s […]

Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com, September 1, 2007 A government watchdog group is urging an investigation of a contractor at the Hanford nuclear reservation after soil contaminated with mercury was mistakenly dumped in a landfill. There have been problems in the past at the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility, a landfill that holds radioactive and hazardous chemical waste. It […]

Read here about how residents in a Kentucky neighborhood sued over a chemical spill and affected the sewer pipes.

Source: http://yosemite.epa.gov, December 10, 2009 As a result of the largest environmental bankruptcy in U.S. history, $1.79 billion has been paid to fund environmental cleanup and restoration under a bankruptcy reorganization of American Smelting and Refining Company LLC (ASARCO), the Justice Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture announced […]

Source: http://www.nytimes.com, April 22, 2006 By: Kirk Johnson As W. R. Grace & Company prepares for a major criminal trial over widespread asbestos contamination here, doctors at the clinic that has treated hundreds of asbestos victims accuse the company of trying to discredit them and force the clinic to close. The doctors are scheduled to […]

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 23,2006 By: Sandy Bauers, Inquirer Staff Writer It took Merck & Co. Inc. a week to discover and report a cyanide-related discharge that killed at least 1,000 fish in the Wissahickon Creek and prompted closure of Philadelphia’s water-intake valves. The Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday that a Merck representative first […]

Source: http://www.txattorneys.com, December 18, 2009 By: Juan A. Lozano, Houston Chronicle A federal jury Friday awarded more than $100 million to 10 workers who claimed they were injured in 2007 when a toxic substance was released at BP PLC’s Texas City plant. The jurors in Galveston, about 50 miles southeast of Houston, gave each contract […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, July 10, 2006 By Mary Buckner Powers In what the U.S. Justice Dept. calls a “landmark enforcement action,” the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority has agreed to plead guilty to 15 felony counts of violating the Clean Water Act and pay $10 million in criminal and civil fines. Justice officials says the […]