IMTT, based in Richmond CA, has agreed to pay $157,500 to the Environmental Protection Agency EPA and $85,507 to the California Department of Fish and Game Office of Spill Prevention and Response related to oil spills into the Santa Fe Channel, w IMTT, based...
A pipeline spill at a peat bog occurred in Northern Alberta in the early 1970s Nipisi. Since most oil spill cleanup and remediation efforts have focused on marine environments, this offered an opportunity to monitor the efforts of cleanup and remediation in a freshwater wetland. Several methods were attempted to...
Vegetable oil spills are among the most common spills of organic materials in the United States. Although vegetable oils usually are not toxic in the classic sense, at least not to the extent normally associated with crude oil and refined petroleum products, they can cause severe harmful effects in contaminated...
The paper mentions that as the federal governments lead agency in responding to oil spills in inland waters, EPA is responsible for monitoring and, if necessary, directing spill response efforts. Under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, EPA is required to direct the response in cases where the spill "is...
On January 30, 2000 an estimated 29,000 barrels of mixed crude oil and condensate were released into the Desaguadero River on the Bolivian Altiplano. The spill threatened the feeding and watering grounds for over 50,000 head of livestock, including sheep, cattle, llamas, and pigs. This paper presents a brief summary...
For the past several weeks, residents of St. Bernard Parish have been trudging through the sludge Katrina left in their homes, hoping to salvage a few mementos of their devastated lives.But what that sludge contains is a mystery. Although parish officials say the sediment left behind by Katrina is safe...
San Diego businesses will likely be spared additional rate increases to fund sewer improvements, despite a recent federal ruling ordering the city to strengthen its efforts to clean up sewage spills. Instead, rate increases already approved by the San Diego businesses will likely...
Byline: BOB ECKHARDT Setting a compliance deadline of February 17, the Environmental Protection Agency last June revised its Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plan SPCC requirements in 40 CFR 112. In November, EPA announced it was Byline: BOB...
The federal government just launched two new fronts in San Diego's battle to prevent beach closures--a lawsuit and a $6 million grant. The federal Environmental Protection Agency filed the suit July 9, citing a record of 1,500 spills from its sewa The federal...
LIKE MANY WHO WENT through Hurricane Katrina, Murphy Oil Corp. has proven to be a survivor. But no one really knows what ill winds may still blow in for the company or the folks in south Louisiana. Murphy's Meraux refinery is not expected to be...
The paper describes the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. Under the oil pollution act of 1990, the owner or operator of a facility from which oil is discharged also known as the responsible Party is liable for the costs associated with the containment or cleanup of the spill and any...
Consumers saddled with old cellphones, TVs and computers are flocking to electronics recycling events, which have sprung up in more than 1,000 communities over the past four years. But don't be fooled, activists warn. Items collected at free events are sometimes destined for salvage yards in...
WELLINGTON, Fla. -- In one of the biggest conservation deals in U.S. history, the nation's largest producer of cane sugar reached a tentative agreement Tuesday to get out of the business and sell its nearly 300 square miles in the Everglades to the state of Florida...
Magellan Midstream Partners will pay $5.3 million to cover civil penalties related to fuel spills at 11 different pipeline locations over the past 10 years. Six of the alleged 11 Clean Air Act violations, including the two largest spills, occurred in Kansas, according...
LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking over the cleanup of an oil spill in Santa Barbara County after failed efforts by Greka Oil & Gas Inc., a company whose long record of inland oil spills could soon lead to new legislation. Officials...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Karen Thompson of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,+1-312-353-8547, thompson.karen@epa.gov CHICAGO, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U. S. EnvironmentalProtectionAgency Region 5 recently settled an administrative caseinvolving hazardous chemical release and inventory reportingviolations at House of Flavors Inc., in Ludington, Mich. The company, located at 110 N. William St.,...
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Karen Thompson of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,+1-312-353-8547, thompson.karen@epa.gov CHICAGO, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U. S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency Region 5 recently settled an administrative caseinvolving hazardous chemical release reporting violations by ChemsolProducts Corp., Cleveland, Ohio. The company, located at 712 E. 163rd St., paid $20,000 to...
Garrett County Public Schools | Oakland, Maryland An environmental project more likely to have been spearheaded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency than elementary school students led to Garrett County Public Schools in rural western Maryland receiving the National Civic Star Award for 2008. The project,...
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Merck & Co., the big drugmaker, agreed to a $20 million settlement yesterday with federal and state environmental officials and the U.S. attorney's office over an illegal June 2006 chemical release into a Montgomery County sewer system. Under terms of the deal, Merck will pay $4.5 million to the state...
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