The EPA has proposed a plan to address contaminated soil for which the Stepan Company is responsible, at the Maywood Chemical Company Superfund site in Maywood and Rochelle Park, New Jersey. Previous industrial activity at the site resulted in contamination of the soil and ground water with volatile organic compounds, radioactive waste and metals.

Northland Environmental and its owner, PSC Environmental Services, have agreed to pay a fine of $58,278 and to spend $252,152 on a chemical safety project at 60 schools, to settle EPA claims that the company violated the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and state hazardous waste laws. The EPA says a Northland facility in Providence, R.I. failed to properly identify certain hazardous wastes and to properly maintain hazardous waste tanks and containers; and that it stored incompatible hazardous wastes next to one another, creating a potential for fire or explosions.