The Obama administration last week proposed an overhaul of safety procedures at the nation's chemical plants. The Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Management Program, in part, requires chemical facilities to establish risk management plans for hazardous materials. The newly issued EPA proposal…
EPA Investigating ExxonMobil For Understating Risk The EPA has become the latest government agency to launch an investigation into the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery. The environmental watchdog is investigating whether the company has deliberately understated the worst-case scenario for a disaster…
DuPont to Pay $724K After Explosion That Killed Worker DuPont has agreed to pay $724,000 to settle Clean Air Act violations that contributed to a 2010 explosion that killed a contractor and burned another at its western New York plant.…
Federal regulators on Tuesday announced plans to reduce emissions from petroleum refineries. The regulations, once fully implemented in 2018, will reduce toxic air pollutants by an estimated 5,200 tons per year and volatile organic compounds by 50,000 tons per year,…
The yellow plume of contaminated wastewater that spilled from an abandoned Colorado mine and flowed downstream toward two other states is three times larger than originally estimated, federal officials say. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency used better measurements to find…
Federal regulators this week announced a final $43 million plan for removing mercury contamination near a since-closed DuPont ammunition plant in northern New Jersey. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered the chemical giant to dredge lakebed sentiment from a 36-acre…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says flares at refineries and chemical plants emit far more pollution than regulators previously indicated. Under the terms of a court order, the EPA revised its formula for calculating the amount of pollutants released by…
Citing lessons learned during the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed sweeping changes in regulations for the use of chemical dispersants and other substances in future spills. The 247-page proposed rule includes more stringent standards…
The NSW environmental regulator is investigating the leak of a potentially lethal gas at a chemical plant in southeast Sydney. The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) said the ethylene oxide leak occurred at the Huntsman Surfactants Plant, at the Botany Industrial…
