The Bonnet Carré Spillway diverts Mississippi River flood flows away from New Orleans into Lake Pontchartrain, which connects to the Mississippi Channel and eventually the Gulf of Mexico. The spillway has been opened only 15 times since construction was completed …
LONDON –– An oil tanker runs aground off eastern China, leaking fuel into the water. Another is caught in a collision near Cuba. A third is seized in Spain for drifting out of control. These vessels were part of a …
Residents of a Louisiana parish located in the heart of a cluster of polluting petrochemical factories filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday raising allegations of civil rights, environmental justice and religious liberty violations. The lawsuit names St. James Parish as the …
SEATTLE (AP) — A company that operates a century-old hydroelectric dam near Mount Rainier National Park and its chief operating officer each pleaded guilty to a single criminal count Monday in connection with a spill of synthetic field turf and …
DEER PARK, Texas (AP) _ Toxic wastewater used to extinguish a fire following a train derailment in Ohio is headed to a Houston suburb for disposal. “I and my office heard today that `firefighting water’ from the East Palestine, Ohio, …
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Space Force said a power surge during a lightning storm likely caused a mechanical issue that allowed about 700 gallons (2,750 liters) of diesel fuel to spill last week at the environmentally sensitive and …
The European Union on Tuesday started to consider a proposal to ban widely used, potentially harmful substances known as PFAS or “forever chemicals” in what could become the bloc’s most extensive piece of regulation of the chemical industry. The chemicals …
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) _ Guyana’s Environmental Protection Agency says it can now use satellites to monitor any oil spills in the South American nation’s waters. The agency’s former leader criticized the technology as ineffective, saying the only proper way of …
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the state’s claims for environmental damages, …
Ken’s Foods would likely have filed a $10 million business-interruption claim had it not spent $2 million to upgrade its wastewater treatment system, the company’s lawyer says. That doesn’t mean its insurer has a common-law duty to reimburse the company …