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Pollution is harmful contamination of the environment. Here are up-to-date articles on pollution and efforts to reduce pollution. We also include information on environmental enforcement against polluters by governmental bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and regulation to control pollution.
EPA to Limit Drifting Smog
The Environmental Protection Agency today finalized widely anticipated Clean Air Act regulations on pollution that crosses state lines.
In an announcement shortly before noon ...
Environmental Enforcement: Hecla Settles for $263m in Huge Superfund Case
The Hecla Mining Company will pay $263.4 million plus interest to the United States, the Coeur d’Alene Tribe and the state of ...
Environmental Enforcement: Battery Recycling Co. to Clean Up After Lead Found in Children
EPA Region 2 has reached an agreement with The Battery Recycling Company in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, requiring the company to take measures to prevent lead ...
Home Depot Sued by Calif. Counties over Paint VOC Levels
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), the air pollution control agency for Orange County and much of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and ...
Environmental Enforcement: St. Louis Sewer District to Pay $4.7B in Settlement
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) has agreed in principle to spend $4.7 billion over the next two decades, including a $1.2 million fine, to ...
Supreme Court Halts GE’s Superfund Challenge
The Supreme Court said yesterday that it would not take up a case in which General Electric had challenged how the Environmental Protection Agency ...
EPA Outlines Ideas for Cutting Red Tape
Chemical reporting, sanitary sewer overflow and lead paint are among the regulatory areas in which the Environmental Protection Agency plans to make changes ...
Kraft Settles for $8m In Pollution Class Action
Kraft Foods will pay $8.1 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that one of its factories polluted the air and water ...
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Warns of Hazardous Material Releases During Hurricane Season
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a Hazardous Weather Release Prevention and Reporting alert to remind facility operators of their obligation to ...
EPA Admits Mercury Math Error
The Environmental Protection Agency has admitted that its newly proposed limits on mercury from power plants are based in part on ...
Environmental Enforcement: US Silver Corp. Settles Alleged Water Violations for $87k
U.S. Silver Corporation, owner and operator of the Coeur and Galena Mines and Mills near Wallace, Idaho, in the state’s “Silver Valley,” has ...
Compliance Briefing: E-Waste African Dumping, Prop 65 Suits
Leading U.K. recycler Environmental Waste Controls (EWC) has admitted that e-waste left in its care ended up being dumped in west Africa, ...
Environmental Enforcement: Boat Chief Added to EPA Fugitive List
Prem Kumar, also known as Premakumaran Krishnan, a citizen of India, has been added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s fugitive list ...
Metals Firms Unveil Smog-Eating Buildings, Recycling Goals
Novelis has committed to make 80 percent of its products from recycled metal by 2020, up from 34 percent today - as fellow ...
50 Years of Environmental Law in Canada
2011 is the 50th anniversary of Ontario environmental laws. Our first environmental statute came in 1961: Ontario Water Resources Act (following creation ...
Va. Threatens to Sue Feds Over Coal Permits
Virginia is threatening to sue the federal government after the Department of the Interior toughened its stance on state mining permits, the New ...
U.S. Fed Court Upholds Calif. Carbon Curbs
The state of California has had its legal right to enact controls on air pollution upheld on appeal.
A challenge ...
The Truth about Biodegradation in Landfills
“Federal environmental regulations require landfills to minimize interaction with water, oxygen, and light,” (Section V.C.4.a) according to the Federal Trade Commission ...
PPG Agrees to More Stringent Carcinogen Standards
PPG Industries will be required to clean up a carcinogen at a New Jersey site to levels four times more stringent than state standards, ...
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Proposes Limit on Pa. Power Plant After NJ Complaint
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed restrictions on sulfur dioxide emissions from a Pennsylvania power plant, in response to a ...
