WASHINGTON, DC, September 14, 2023 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is receiving more than $100 million from President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda to expand recycling infrastructure [...]
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, September 2, 2023 (ENS) – The Justice Department announced Thursday that Japan-based Tadano Ltd. and its subsidiaries, known as the Tadano Group, will pay a $40 million [...]
BOISE, Idaho, July 13, 2023 (ENS) – J.R. Simplot Company, a fertilizer manufacturer based in Boise, has reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Justice Department and the Environmental Protection [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, April 13, 2023 (ENS) – The benefits of the “most ambitious pollution standards ever,” will top costs by US$1 trillion, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency promised Tuesday, announcing [...]
MOODY, Alabama, January 25, 2023 ENS) – People living near a huge landfill fire in Moody that has been smoldering for more than two months want more environmental protection in [...]
By Benjamin Seidman
WASHINGTON, DC, October 10, 2022 (ENS) – The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has just established the Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights to serve underprivileged [...]
BUTTE, Montana, October 3, 2022 (ENS) – The Atlantic Richfield Company, ARCO, has agreed to spend $131 million complete its cleanup of the Anaconda Smelter Superfund Site in Deer Lodge [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2022 (ENS) – A majority of U.S. Supreme Court Justices voted today to restrict the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to limit and reduce carbon dioxide emissions [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2022 (ENS) – In a bipartisan vote of 68-31, the U.S. Senate has passed an appropriations bill that will fund government climate, energy, water and wildfire [...]
HOUSTON, Texas, March 11, 2022 (ENS) – Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP has agreed to a legal settlement with the federal government that will eliminate thousands of tons of air [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2022 (ENS) – Black residents of Louisiana’s St. John the Baptist Parish have been subjected to the highest cancer risk from air pollution in the nation [...]
BINGHAMTON, New York, December 2, 2021 (ENS) – Two convicted asbestos criminals will be jailed and fined nearly $400,000 for exposing their workers and the surrounding community to the risk [...]
WINDHAM, Maine, November 15, 2021 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with APlus Truck Sales, Inc. of Windham, resolving EPA allegations that from 2017 to [...]
MONROE, Washington, November 14, 2021 (ENS) – A jury in King County Superior Court this week awarded $62 million in damages to eight people in King and Snohomish counties harmed [...]
WASHINGTON, DC, October 21, 2021 (ENS) – Toxic when ingested, persistent in the environment, PFAS are manufactured chemicals used in industrial and consumer products worldwide since the 1950s. Now, the [...]
KELLOGG, Idaho, October 22, 2021 (ENS) – In an effort to reduce the volume of heavy metals discharged to Idaho’s Coeur D’Alene River from the Bunker Hill Mine and Smelting [...]
MIDLAND, Texas, October 1, 2021 (ENS) – Five subsidiaries of West Texas Gas Inc. will spend up to $5 million on compliance measures in a settlement that resolves U.S. government [...]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 3, 2021 (ENS) – At least 66 people across nine U.S. states have died due to Ida in her various phases from Category 4 hurricane when [...]
NEW YORK, New York, August 26, 2021 (ENS) – Community groups from across the United States, together with California’s Santa Clara County, have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental [...]
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