Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
BP Reaches $2.75 Million Settlement Over Indiana Refinery Pollution
Sep 21 2022 // Oil titan BP reached a $2.75 million settlement over air pollution from its largest refinery after environmentalists complained of repeated emissions violations at the Whiting facility in Indiana. The agreement is the...
Georgia Shrimpers, Businesses File Suits Over Capsized Cargo Ship Pollution
Sep 13 2022 // Fishermen, shrimpers and business owners dependent on coastal tourism have filed lawsuits over pollution caused when a cargo ship capsized off the Georgia coast in 2019. The two federal lawsuits filed last week in Georgia...
EPA Denies Request to Exempt 2 Gulf Coast Plants From Air Pollution Rule
Sep 8 2022 // The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday denied a request by Cheniere Energy, a leading U.S. producer of liquefied natural gas, to exempt two Gulf Coast plants from a federal air pollution rule. An EPA spokesman says...
Study Shows Pollution, Runoff Intensify Red Tide Blooms in Florida Waters
Aug 30 2022 // A new study by University of Florida researchers has provided one of the strongest correlations yet, showing that red tide outbreaks in coastal waters are exacerbated by man-made pollution. “There has been this kind...
EPA Fines Ohio-Based Autosales $600,000 over Clean Air Act Violations
Aug 23 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that Ohio-based Autosales, Inc. will pay a $600,000 penalty under the Clean Air Act for illegally selling aftermarket products that alter vehicles’...
Environmental Officer Warns New Jersey Is Not Prepared for Climate Change Effects
Aug 17 2022 // New Jersey’s top environmental officer says the state is not ready for the worsening effects of climate change and rising seas. Testifying Thursday to a joint state Senate-Assembly panel on coastal issues, Shawn...
Pipeline Agrees to Pollution Remediation, Watersheds Restoration in Pennsylvania
Aug 9 2022 // The developer of a major pipeline system that connects the Marcellus Shale gas field in western Pennsylvania to an export terminal near Philadelphia pleaded no contest Friday to criminal charges that it systematically...
Biden EPA to Tackle Coal Industry Carbon With Rules on Other Pollutants
Jul 29 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to use new limits on traditional pollutants like ozone and coal ash to help encourage the retirement of the nation’s remaining coal-fired power plants, after the Supreme...
Missouri Limestone Quarry to Pay $210K EPA Penalty
Jul 25 2022 // Trager Limestone LLC, which operates the Nettleton Limestone Quarry in Caldwell County, Missouri, has agreed to pay a $210,000 civil penalty and perform watershed restoration at a cost of over $300,000, as part of a...
Environmental Group Plans Suit Over Coal Ash in Alabama River Delta
Jul 22 2022 // An environmental group took the first step Wednesday toward filing suit over plans by Alabama Power Co. to leave millions of pounds of coal ash near a riverside within the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta, which activists say...
Louisiana Fertilizer Company to Pay $1.5M Over Hazardous Waste Violations
Jul 14 2022 // The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced a settlement with PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, L.P. (PCS Nitrogen), to remedy hazardous...
Dutch Airline KLM Sued by Environmental Groups Over Alleged ‘Greenwashing’ Ads
Jul 7 2022 // Environmental groups are suing the Dutch subsidiary of Air France-KLM over an advertising campaign they allege breaches European consumer law by misleading the public over how sustainable its flights are. Dutch campaigners...
Explainer: Will U.S. Supreme Court EPA Ruling Rein in Federal Regulators?
Jul 5 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday curtailed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants in a 6-3 ruling that some legal experts said would more broadly curb...
‘Forever Chemicals’ Pose Risk Even at Very Low Levels: EPA
Jun 20 2022 // The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that two nonstick and stain-resistant compounds found in drinking water are more dangerous than previously thought – and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot...
EPA Ordered to Reassess Glyphosate’s Impact on Health, Environment
Jun 20 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was ordered by a federal appeals court on Friday to take a fresh look at whether glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer AG’s Roundup weed killer, poses unreasonable risks...
Texas-Based Petrochemical Company to Cut Air Pollution
Jun 13 2022 // Three subsidiaries of a Texas-based petrochemical company settled allegations that they violated federal and state pollution control laws. The U.S. Department of Justice, in a news release, said Westlake Chemical...
New Jersey, Massachusetts, EPA Close to Settlements Over Industrial Waste Sites
Jun 8 2022 // A federal court is weighing settlements with a South Carolina electronics company that would provide funds for cleaning up hazardous waste sites in New Jersey and Massachusetts. The proposed consent decree between the...
Wisconsin Lawmakers Approve 9 Pollution Settlements
Jun 2 2022 // Wisconsin lawmakers signed off Tuesday on $378,000 in settlements of nine pollution lawsuits. The settlement payments to the state approved by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee range from $5,000 to $160,000...
Small Nuclear Power Projects May Have Big Waste Problems
Jun 1 2022 // A planned new generation of small nuclear reactors will create more waste than conventional reactors, while treatments to make some types of waste safe could be exploited by militants trying to obtain fissile materials, a...
Pollution Kills 9 Million People a Year, Mostly in Poorer Nations
May 20 2022 // Premature deaths from common pollution sources have risen by two-thirds globally since 2000, a dark consequence of the economic development that has lifted millions from extreme poverty this century. More than 90% of the...
