Read here about how the former owner’s of a Maryland steel mill have requested that a lawsuit be dismissed.

Source: http://www.thesunnews.com, March 10, 2011 By: David Wren Myrtle Beach officials say they are concerned that groundwater contamination from AVX Corp. might be more widespread than previously thought, and they are looking into whether legal action is warranted against the manufacturer. “We want to know what liability they [AVX] have to the city and to […]

Source: Joplin Globe (MO), March 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Jasper County Circuit Court Judge David Dally is expected to rule in 10 days on whether or not Carthage residents can sue as a class over damages from odors allegedly coming from Renewable Environmental Solutions of Carthage. Dally heard two hours of arguments today focusing […]

Source: St. Joseph News-Press (MO), March 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A St. Joseph company will pay a $64,804 civil penalty for a series of Environmental Protection Agency violations at its manufacturing facility in St. Joseph, Mo. Albaugh, which makes and packages generic fertilizers and herbicides, agreed to pay a civil penalty for a series […]

Source: Picayune Item (MS), March 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Officials with the city of Picayune are seeking help from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to clean up a large collection of used tires off of Neal Road. Life-long Goodyear community resident the Rev. John Goss has been before the city council a number […]

Source: Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), February 28, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com AVX Corp. on Monday reached a confidential settlement with an adjacent land owner over groundwater contamination near the manufacturer’s facility on 17th Avenue South in Myrtle Beach, bringing an end to a dispute that started in late 2007. The settlement was announced during […]

Source: http://www.recordonline.com, February 5, 2011 By: Michael Randall The town is going to federal court to force a company to clean up ground water contamination allegedly from a manufacturing plant the firm sold 20 years ago. The parties have a court date Feb. 17. The alleged contamination is in Little Falls Park in the Ducktown […]

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

Publication Date 01/11/2011 Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Doctors will monitor the health of the children who inhaled mercury vapors in their Gloucester County day-care center, a judge ruled Tuesday. New Jersey Superior Court Judge James E. Rafferty ordered the state, county and Franklin Township, as well as the owners of Kiddie Kollege, […]

Publication Date 05/18/2010 Source: Valley News-Dispatch (Tarentum, PA) Allegheny Ludlum Corp. has reached a settlement with federal and county agencies regarding alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its Natrona melt shop. The agreement announced Monday by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Justice calls for Ludlum, a subsidiary of Allegheny Technologies […]

Publication Date 06/16/2010 Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) A Montgomery County beef processing plant that officials said released fish-killing pollutants into the Skippack Creek will pay $2 million in penalties, federal officials announced Wednesday. The fines were levied after the firm, Moyer Packing Co. in Franconia Township, dumped pollutants into the creek. Skippack Creek is a tributary […]

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