For at least three years, a California resin manufacturing facility owned by The Sherwin-Williams Company shipped waste to ordinary landfills that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) later determined should have been classified as hazardous. I will explain shortly why…
For nearly four years, an Idaho lumber mill operated with systemic disregard for the environmental laws designed to protect the nation’s waterways. From 2019 to 2023, Tamarack Mill, LLC, a sawmill and power generation plant in New Meadows, Idaho, repeatedly…
More than 84,700 Americans thought they were helping to save lives by donating their old cars. They responded to emotional ads promising their vehicle donation would fund free breast cancer screenings. Between 2017 and 2022, this generated over $45.5 million.…
Federal law mandates that families renting homes built before 1978 be explicitly warned about the potential dangers of lead-based paint, a neurotoxin especially harmful to children and pregnant women. Yet this critically important safeguard failed for tenants in at least…
When a company violates federal environmental law, a penalty is supposed to serve as both punishment and deterrent. But what happens when the system designed to enforce safety standards calculates a significant fine and then quietly waives it? For GnG…
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…