Environmental violations include the improper disposal of waste, emissions of toxic substances, and illegal exploitation of natural resources. These practices can lead to significant environmental damage, including pollution of air and water, destruction of habitats, and loss of biodiversity. The repercussions are long-lasting, affecting the health of local communities, reducing the quality of natural resources, and contributing to global environmental crises like climate change.
TL;DR Summary The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that both Joshua Dipzinski and the housing company Greg LLC violated multiple sections of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a cornerstone federal law meant to prevent harmful chemical exposure to…
Seattle Arena Company, LLC (the operator of Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena) was found by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have repeatedly failed to report hazardous chemicals stored at its facility, including large quantities of anhydrous ammonia and sulfuric…
TL;DR:For 35 years, Griffith Foods International and its successor Sterigenics emitted the toxic chemical ethylene oxide into the air of Willowbrook, Illinois, exposing thousands of residents to carcinogenic pollution. The emissions (authorized by a state permit that lacked firm limits)a…
For over four years, Carmeuse Lime, Inc.’s facility in Grand River, Ohio, exceeded federal air pollution limits — 7,938 minutes of illegal emissions between 2020 and 2024. These violations, confirmed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), involved hazardous air…
In July 2024, federal EPA inspectors walked into a Waterloo, Iowa, manufacturing facility and uncovered a pattern of carelessness that exposed workers, the surrounding community, and the environment to toxic risk. The company– CPM Waterloo, formerly Roskamp Manufacturing— had been…
For three years, stormwater running off one of the nation’s largest bullet producing plants (CCI/Speer’s Lewiston, Idaho facility) carried heavy metals and industrial pollutants into the Clearwater and Snake Rivers, two of the Pacific Northwest’s major waterways.The contamination persisted unchecked…
A federal enforcement action concluded on September 22, 2025 ordering Viant (specifically in the Collegeville location), a large-quantity hazardous waste generator in Pennsylvania, to pay $170,000 after EPA inspectors documented systemic lapses across storage, training, inspections, and emergency planning– the…
At a facility in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, a manufacturer supplying the U.S. military and auto industry was found to have stored and mishandled hazardous waste (acid wastewater, spent solvents, caustic residues, and waste aerosol cans) for years without the required…
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…