Six years ago, there was a massive spill of coal ash sludge in Tennessee. Three years later, tons of coal ash swept into Lake Michigan. Last February, there was another spill and gray sludge spewed into the Dan River in …
HollyFrontier Corp. has agreed to pay a $153,000 penalty for poor emergency management planning at its refinery in Cheyenne. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it hoped the agreement would bring the facility in line with safety requirements and …
Joe Amento, a lifelong resident of Ambler, was 53 when he died of a rare cancer with one main cause – exposure to asbestos. He was fine at Christmas 2002. In January, a pain in his side kept him awake …
A fire last month that consumed a metro Atlanta, Ga., chemical plant burned for at least two hours before checks began for dangerous emissions and four hours before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began more extensive testing, according to a …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it wants to gather public comment on whether it should require chemical manufacturers to disclose the content of fluids used for oil and gas production, a possible step toward greater federal oversight of hydraulic …
Officials from the state of Vermont, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency are preparing to release two reports on how the state can better prepare itself for floods and other disasters. Joined by the Montpelier-based Institute for …
Environmental rules that would have forced cities to use lead-free fittings for new fire hydrants will be withdrawn after lawmakers, manufacturers and city officials protested that they were unduly expensive. While legislation to reverse the regulations is pending in Congress, …
The owner of a former central Idaho hotel must pay a $21,000 fine for asbestos safety violations after failing to test for the cancer-causing material before demolishing the century-old structure. The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday BBA Winchester LLC, owned …
The federal government is fighting with itself over a massive fire at a Chevron refinery in California that sent 15,000 people to hospitals with respiratory ailments. In one corner is the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, which conducted …
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official tells an Ohio fracking conference that a study of the threat to drinking water from the shale-drilling process won’t be completed until 2016. That’s the word from Jeanne Briskin, coordinator of hydraulic fracturing research …