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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.
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 ...
Environmental Enforcement: EPA Orders Doe Run to Clean Up Former Lead Mine
Mining company Doe Run Resources Corp. and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ (MDNR) Division of State Parks have agreed ...
The U.S. Capital Wonders: What’s in Your Water?
EPA Proposes 30 New Contaminants to Regulate in Public Water Systems
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted a proposal of 30 currently ...
Environmental Enforcement: Tennessee Valley Authority to Pay $450,000 to Settle Alleged Clean Air Violations
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has agreed to pay a $450,000 civil penalty to resolve allegations made by the Environmental Protection Agency ...
EPA Announces Power Plant Mercury Standards
National standards on power plants' emissions of mercury, arsenic and several other toxic air pollutants were announced yesterday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
These proposed standards would require many power plants to install widely ...
EPA Adds Ten Superfund Sites, Proposes 15
Ten Superfund sites have been added to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Priorities List (NPL), and the agency is proposing 15 more additions.
The ...
Former GM Pollution Settlement Soars Past $800m
The remains of the old General Motors Corp. has agreed to pay $51 million to settle environmental liabilities at 34 sites in ...
Environmental Enforcement: PowerTrain to Pay $2m for Illegal Engine Imports
PowerTrain Inc. of Mississippi is to pay a civil penalty of $2 million to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department ...
Report: Fracking’s ‘Radioactive Wastewater’ Discharged into Drinking Water Supplies
The natural gas drilling process known as hydrofracking poses far more danger to the environment and health than previously understood, the ...
EPA Revises Boiler and Incinerator Rules
The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday issued industrial boiler pollution rules that it says will see industry incur only half the expense as regulations the ...
Environmental Enforcement: Biomass Plants Fined $835,000 For Clean Air Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District have settled claims brought against two biomass power plants in California's Central Valley, the agencies announced yesterday.
The companies have ...
