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• S. Phoenix pollution tests in doubt because of rain

  Air samples from a south-central Phoenix neighborhood confirm residents’ complaints that a hazardous air pollutant is hovering in the area. But distrustful residents doubted the results, revealed last week by state environmental officials at the initial meeting of a project to reduce toxic exposure in south Phoenix. Rain on three of the five testing days […]

• Anti-brick brigade fights for more pollution controls

  An NT music faculty member is leading a charge with fellow Denton citizens to force Acme Brick to reexamine its “business as usual” attitude. Acme’s Denton manufacturing plant on Fort Worth Drive has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for renewal of their air quality permit, which associate professor Ed Soph contends the […]

• Minnesota: Calhoun pollution traced to nearby firm

  State pollution officials have solved a four-year-old mystery about the source of fish contamination in Lake Calhoun. A St. Louis Park company used a chemical formerly made by 3M, and it entered the southwest Minneapolis lake through a storm water system, said Ralph Pribble, spokesman for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Although the PCA didn’t […]

• Hazardous trades bring pollution and health fears down Mexico way

  There is a street called Chemical Row in Matamoros, the shabby Mexican town across the border from Brownsville, Texas, which is lined with some of the most hazardous industries known to man. A long, corrugated-iron shack, now rusting with neglect, was once a lead smelter owned by Asarco, the US metals group. Behind it is […]

• Taking on DuPont: Illnesses, deaths blamed on pollution from W. Va. plant

  Jobs vs. health Chapter 1 PARKERSBURG, W. Va. – No one in the Mid-Ohio Valley ever wanted to sue DuPont. The company employs thousands in the region and supports charities and community organizations. In some families, multiple generations owe their livelihood to the Delaware-based chemical giant. But as livestock started dying and thousands of residents contracted unexplained illnesses, evidence pointed to pollution […]

• Plant’s emissions worry neighbors

  It took more than two years for local air-pollution regulators to issue a permit for the Phoenix Brick Yard, but it took less than a week for opponents to lodge complaints. The south-central Phoenix plant last week received a permit that regulates it as a major source of pollution. It’s the first time in the […]

• Cards N Time: Pollution IV, Cushing, Oklahoma

  Excerpt: Hudson Oil Refinery In 1913, Consumers Oil opened their refinery west of downtown Cushing on what became a 400-acre site after they merged with Empire Oil. In 1943 they were acquired by Midland Cooperative Wholesale. Hudson Oil acquired Midland in 1977. In 1981, Land-O-Lakes dairy cooperative merged with former owner Midland. They closed Hudson […]

• Teleconference Feb 4 with Philippe Grandjean: How contaminants in our environment impair brain development

  Join us Wednesday, February 4, 2015; 9:00 am Alaska Time (10:00 am Pacific; 1:00 pm Eastern) Sign Up Resources Flyer ABOUT THE CALL: The brain is an extremely complex organ that has to undergo a variety of developmental stages in a particular sequence and at a particular time to develop properly. What happens when the developing […]

• ‘Civil Action’ lawyer takes on pollution, corruption at Ormet Aluminum

  COLUMBUS – In a meeting room at a downtown hotel here, Jan Schlictmann waits for his 10 a.m. appointment. He doesn’t look a bit like John Travolta, who portrayed him in the film A Civil Action. It was based on Jonathan Harr’s 1995 book about Mr. Schlichtmann’s battle against corporate polluters. It was Mr. Schlichtmann […]

• Intel’s air quality: Officials may relax environmental regulations for chipmaker

  The state Environmental Quality Commission will meet tomorrow – Wednesday, Jan. 7 – to discuss rule changes that could allow Intel to avoid regulation under a strict federal environmental program at its multibillion-dollar D1X facility under construction in Hillsboro. Intel is already doing so under a temporary rule adopted by the EQC last year, proposed […]