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…
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,…
For over three years, a Texas chemical plant operated by Arlanxeo USA LLC repeatedly failed to safely burn off hazardous air pollutants, releasing uncombusted chemicals into the air while simultaneously failing to file legally required safety documentation with regulators. The…
TL;DR Summary: On July 1, 2023, a Simmons Prepared Foods, Inc. processing plant in Van Buren, Arkansas, released 1,600 pounds of toxic anhydrous ammonia gas, exposing three of its employees to the hazardous chemical. Federal investigators with the Environmental Protection…
In a grim exposure of regulatory failure, a federal investigation into a Yonkers apartment complex revealed a near-total breakdown of the system designed to protect families from the permanent neurological damage caused by lead paint. An Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
How Over 112,000 Gallons of Oil Sat Unprotected by a Kansas Waterway An oil production company operated two facilities in Kansas with a combined storage capacity of over 112,000 gallons of oil and produced water without the legally required safety…
Imagine the call comes in. A fire at the ConAgra facility in Kent, Washington. Smoke is billowing into the sky. You’re a firefighter, pulling on your gear, your mind racing through protocols. You get in the truck, speeding toward the…
The Price of Poison is $74,000 In a factory in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, people worked around open drums of toxic chemicals. Day in and day out, the air carried the fumes of solvents like methyl ethyl ketone, a chemical that can…