Read here about a driller that will pay some Pennsylvania residents over tainted water.

Read here about a lawsuit against a Missouri plant that caused odor.

Publication Date 06/16/2010 Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH) Less than a year after Heartland Refinery Group was praised by city and state officials as a cutting edge “green” business, the company has been sued by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for violating air pollution limits. In the process, the state says Heartland created “a substantial odor […]

Click here to read about a Pennsylvania company that has been fined for air quality violations.

Publication Date 06/17/2010 Source: Philadelphia Daily News (PA) A beef-processing plant reached a settlement yesterday with the U.S. Attorney’s Office over its six-year history of pollution violations. JBS Souderton violated the Clean Water Act and the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law by releasing animal waste, E. coli, ammonia, oil and grease into Skippack Creek in Montgomery County, […]

Publication Date 06/22/2010 Source: Miami Herald (FL) Two companies in a class-action case over defective Chinese drywall in Homestead, Fla., houses are willing to pay $6 million to settle the case. South Kendall Construction and an affiliate, Palm Isles Holdings, will pay $4 million, and Keys Gate Realty will pay $2.6 million to homeowners if […]

Publication Date 06/22/2010 Source: Tampa Tribune (FL) A federal judge today ordered a Delaware company to pay $1 million in penalties for four criminal violations of the Clean Air Act at its Manatee County facility. Kinder Morgan Port Manatee Terminal, which operates a dry bulk material handling and storage facility at 475 N. Dock St. […]

Publication Date 06/22/2010 Source: Jacksonville Journal-Courier (IL) A lawsuit over a 1998 fuel spill that caused major property contamination was resolved Monday just before the start of a bench trial to determine who should bear responsibility. The settlement reached in the 10-year-old lawsuit was not disclosed. The lawsuit said more than 3,652 gallons of red […]

Publication Date 09/21/2010 Source: Business Wire A federal Judge in Indiana today approved a $4.3 million settlement agreement, ending three years of environmental litigation over cleanup costs for two Evansville sites contaminated with lead and PCBs. The Evansville Greenway & Remediation Trust filed a lawsuit in 2007 against Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Company (SIGECO), […]

Chicago pipeline spill to cost up to $60 million to clean up.

Read here about how Kansas State University will clean a toxic landfill.

Publication Date 10/13/2010 Source: Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI) The Augusta school district might be forced to pay for the estimated $415,000 cleanup of its elementary school after the district’s insurance company rejected a claim seeking payment for mold removal that closed the building for the start of this school year. “It’s kind of disheartening,” Augusta […]