Internal investigators faulted the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for years of delays in completing health studies needed to guide the cleanup of a Montana mining town where hundreds of people have died from asbestos exposure. The EPA’s Office of …
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency wants to stop a northern Illinois business from restarting operations following explosions and a fire that injured workers. IEPA Director John Kim has asked the Illinois Attorney General’s Office to seek a court order preventing …
The Environmental Protection Agency has released a progress report on its research into potential impacts of natural gas hydraulic fracturing and drilling on drinking water. The update released Friday doesn’t come to any conclusions and the final report won’t be …
BP is being temporarily suspended from new contracts with the U.S. government, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Two weeks ago, BP agreed to plead guilty to charges involving the deaths of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which …
A proposed standard for federal cleanup of asbestos contamination in a Montana town concludes that even a tiny amount of the material can lead to lung problems – a benchmark far more rigorous than any in the past and one …
Spontaneous combustion caused by a contractor placing chemicals too close together led to a chemical fire at an abandoned factory that forced evacuations in a northern Indiana city, the Environmental Protection Agency says. The EPA’s incident report on Friday night’s …
It may be several weeks before local, state and federal agencies issue a final report on an explosion that killed three oil field workers. Union County emergency management director Jerry Thomas told the El Dorado News-Times the Occupational Safety and …
New York and 10 other states filed a lawsuit Friday designed to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue new regulations on soot pollution. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in …
Three years after a huge spill of toxin-laden sludge in East Tennessee, most of the gray muck has been hauled off or hidden while hundreds of property owners who claim financial harm are mired in a court fight. No one …
A Washington, D.C-based environmental group says its research has identified new sites in 10 states where coal ash appears to have contaminated groundwater or soil at unsafe levels. The Environmental Integrity Project in a Tuesday report said the 20 sites …