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 […]

Source: Contra Costa Times, December 19, 2006 By: John Geluardi The Richmond City Council will consider spending a minimum of $9.5 million to temporarily house the Police Department until a new public safety building is built. The 57-year-old Hall of Justice Building, which currently houses the department, is unsafe because of mold infestation due to […]

Source: http://www.nypost.com, July 19, 2007 By: David Seifman, Jennifer Cook and Andy Geller There may not be deadly asbestos in the “hot zone” on the East Side of Manhattan, but the city isn’t taking any chances. It’s conducting exhaustive checks and keeping people out of the 30 buildings, mostly office structures, in the zone until […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, July 13, 2007 By: Estes Thompson The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether cancer-causing radioactive material was buried in the 1980s near a rifle range at Camp Lejeune, N.C., the Marine Corps’ primary base on the Atlantic Ocean. A recently recovered Navy document dated 1981 said the material included 160 pounds of soil […]