Clean Air Act News

Mercedes Benz to Pay $5.5 Million to Resolve Arizona Diesel Ad Lawsuit

WASHINGTON —German automaker Mercedes Benz and auto supplier Robert Bosch agreed to pay about $6 million to resolve Arizona’s lawsuit over diesel advertising claims, the state said on Friday. Under the proposed settlement, Mercedes Benz will pay $2.8 million in …

Pollution Charges: Louisiana Firestone Plant to Pay $4 Million

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A major manufacturer of synthetic rubber, Firestone Polymers LLC, has agreed to pay $4 million in fines and an environmental project and make numerous improvements to settle a long list of state and federal air pollution …

Social Inflation or Science: What Is Fueling Climate Litigation?

A rising amount of litigation tied to the environmental and health impacts of greenhouse gas emissions prompted a question from the leader of a liability risk analytics company recently: “Is it about climate liability or the liability climate?” Robert Reville, …

Protests Delay Construction of Refinery by Roosevelt National Park

BISMARCK, N.D. — Lawsuits from environmentalists and landowners have made investors skittish and delayed progress another year on the proposed $800 million oil refinery near Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota, the developer’s top executive said. Meridian wants …

Climate-Warming Airliner Pollution Targeted by EPA

Jet engine exhaust from airliners endangers human health and adds to climate change, the government found Monday in taking the first step toward regulating those emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency said it will use its authority under the Clean Air …

Guilty Plea for Woman Who Concealed Steamboat Asbestos

A San Francisco woman faces up to two years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines after pleading guilty to a federal charge that she didn’t tell Louisiana regulators about asbestos in the Mississippi Queen steamboat before …

Iowa Man Pleads Guilty to Improper Asbestos Removal

A Sioux City, Iowa, developer accused of improperly removing asbestos from a former YMCA building has pleaded guilty. Records show 54-year-old Larry Wolf, of Dakota City, Nebraska, entered his plea Wednesday in federal court in Sioux City on one count …

Illinois Man Admits Clean Air Act Violation with Asbestos

Sentencing will be in January for a southwestern Illinois man who admits violating the federal Clean Air Act by having asbestos illegally removed from a former industrial site. Fifty-two-year-old Franklin “Al” Bieri of O’Fallon pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court …