A 24-year legal battle culminated on September 11, 2025, when a federal court ordered a group of consulting and development firms and their principal, James R. Harrold, to be held liable for $3.78 million. The judgment accounts for profits gained…
In North Kansas City, Missouri, a paint and coating manufacturer operated as a de facto unpermitted hazardous waste storage facility, systematically failing to follow basic federal laws designed to protect workers and the environment. An inspection by the Environmental Protection…
For over a decade, a major chemical distributor in Houston, TX failed to comply with federal regulations designed to prevent a catastrophic accidental release of extremely hazardous substances, placing the community at risk while regulators were unaware. An investigation by…
A Delaware gas station operator has agreed to pay a $50,672 penalty after federal regulators documented a pattern of failures to monitor underground tanks holding tens of thousands of gallons of flammable and toxic chemicals. The settlement with the Environmental…
For half a decade, a Washington-based industrial foundry violated our federal clean air laws, failing to report its compliance and allowing untrained workers to spray-apply coatings containing hazardous pollutants like chromium and nickel. A recent settlement with the Environmental Protection…
Across four states, property management firm GREP Southeast, LLC engaged in a pattern of conduct that systematically dismantled federal safeguards designed to protect families from the irreversible neurological damage of lead poisoning. A 2023 investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection…
For a spill of 170,000 gallons of sewage into a tributary (a body of water which leads into a different body of water) of the Potomac River, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency settled with the City of Keyser, West Virginia,…
Beneath Richmond, Virginia, tens of thousands of gallons of petroleum products were managed by a company that, for years, failed to maintain basic environmental safeguards and prove it could pay for a potential catastrophe. A settlement with the Environmental Protection…
A single, dilapidated warehouse in a residential New Jersey neighborhood posed a direct threat to over 15,000 residents, forcing an emergency government intervention that cost taxpayers nearly one million dollars. After creating the crisis, the companies responsible vanished into insolvency,…
Federal law and general ethical morality requires landlords and their agents to disclose the known risks of lead-based paint (a potent neurotoxin especially dangerous to children and pregnant women) before a family signs a lease for a pre-1978 home. For…