Read here about an Idaho mining company that will pay millions to the federal government to settle the clean up of the Silver Valley.

Source: Daily Press (Newport News, VA), October 10, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Eric Bailey became so frustrated when moving out of his Chinese drywall-contaminated home in Denbigh this spring, he took out a Sharpie pen and scrawled messages on his gray walls. “Chinese drywall brought to U by U.S. trade policy,” Bailey wrote in thick […]

Source: Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA), October 10, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Just about a year ago, a monitoring well near the Bourne boundary of the Massachusetts Military Reservation showed levels of perchlorate six times the limit set by the state for safe drinking water. To the public, the discovery came out of nowhere, but […]

Read here about a South Dakota meatpacking plant that will pay a $44,000 fine for polluting a river.

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: 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 Pennsylvania company that has agreed to a substantial fine for Clean Air Act Violations.