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A $4 million lead-paint penalty, a $125 million Passaic River cleanup settlement, and $1.9 million in natural resource damages led federal environmental enforcement this week.
North Carolina's $590 million PFAS settlement with Chemours, DuPont and Corteva leads a week that also saw a $125 million Passaic River Superfund agreement, a guilty plea in a fatal…
Domtar’s $1.5M Clean Air Act consent decree awaits court entry, an unusual $20,000 Superfund deal opens for comment in Oklahoma, and EPA Region 10 posts two Clean Water Act penalties…
TIJ's weekly EPA enforcement digest: a $20,000 ability-to-pay Superfund settlement in Oklahoma, a repeat Clean Water Act offender in New Hampshire, a $132,500 Safe Drinking Water Act decree in New…
Court approval of New Jersey's $2.5 billion PFAS settlements headlines a week that also saw the Keystone spill decree clear public comment, a $1.5 million Clean Air Act penalty for…
A Clean Air Act deal with paper maker Domtar leads the latest EPA enforcement docket, alongside a $69M Keystone Pipeline oil-spill settlement and the $450M Chemours PFAS case — as…
This week in EPA enforcement: the $26.9 million Keystone Pipeline spill penalty enters its final comment stretch, Domtar agrees to $1.5 million over Arkansas air violations, an Alaska contractor settles…
A $69M Keystone pipeline spill settlement, Chemours' $450M PFAS deal and a Montana Superfund decree lead this week's EPA enforcement digest.
A landmark $450 million PFAS settlement with Chemours anchors this week's federal environmental enforcement digest, alongside Clean Air Act, Superfund, and criminal water-pollution actions.
A $450 million Chemours PFAS settlement anchored a week of EPA enforcement spanning toxic-chemical reporting, PCB waste, lead paint, and a criminal sewer-dumping sentence.