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#1 Rural Texas Residents Struggle with Noise Pollution from Nearby Crypto Facility
Oct 9 2025 // Danny Lakey and his wife have spent countless evenings sitting on rocking chairs on their front porch, watching the sun slowly dip behind the cows grazing on their neighbor’s ranch. It was the calm country life they...
#2 EPA Wants to Roll Back Super Pollutant Rules
Oct 2 2025 // The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed loosening a rule phasing down the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, highly potent greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners. The Tuesday proposal comes...
#3 People Moves: QBE North America Appoints Cunningham Environmental Underwriting Leader; Gramling Joins Alliant as SVP, Employee Benefits
Sep 30 2025 // QBE North America Appoints Cunningham as SVP and Environmental Underwriting Leader QBE North America, headquartered in New York City, appointed Jayne Cunningham as senior vice president and environmental underwriting...
#4 EPA Seeks $140M Penalty for Michigan’s Worst Sulfur Dioxide Polluter
Oct 3 2025 // When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility...
#5 Florida Chemical Plant Releases Toxic Vapor Cloud But No Injuries Reported
Oct 6 2025 // A toxic cloud of chemicals was released from an industrial site near Cocoa Beach last week, but authorities said no one was seriously injured, and the leak has been repaired. Florida Today and other news outlets reported...
#6 Why Big Oil Is Asking EPA Not to Cut its Polluter Reporting Program
Oct 23 2025 // The Environmental Protection Agency says its proposal to stop greenhouse gas reporting for big polluters could save oil and gas companies up to $256 million a year. Some of them are countering that it could hurt their...
#7 Pipeline Operator Fined, Must Cleanup in EPA Deal Over California Gas Spill
Oct 1 2025 // A pipeline operator is settling with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over a massive gasoline spill in in Walnut Creek, California. Under an agreement, SFPP L.P. will pay a penalty of $213,560 to resolve claims of...
#8 This Pollution Lawsuit Could Reach Far Beyond Banks of River Wye in UK
Oct 23 2025 // The River Wye used to be full of wild salmon. Today it is full of algae. And the meandering waterway which has long attracted anglers, hikers and poets is now the subject of a major pollution lawsuit. The case – against...
#9 Britain Will Make it Easier to Fine Water Firms for Pollution
Oct 22 2025 // The UK plans to make it easier to fine water companies that harm the environment, ramping up pressure on firms blamed for chronic sewage spills. The government wants to allow the Environment Agency to impose “quicker...
#10 EPA Settles Alleged Lead-Based Paint Violations With St. Louis Companies
Oct 6 2025 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Orlando Askins, Askins Development Group LLC, and Shaw Holding Group LLC to resolve alleged violations of the federal Toxic Substances Control...
