SAN FRANCISCO, California — November 6, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently fined Reddy Ice Corporation and Granite Capital LLC $75,000 for failing to follow emergency response regulations.
EPA inspectors discovered the violations following an accidental release of 14,000…
Sonoco Products Company, as of Oct. 29, 2008, estimated between US$29.9 million and US$39.1 million for the cost of remediation of polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated sediments at a site on the lower Fox River in Wisconsin.
During the fourth quarter of 2005, the…
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — November 6, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered ten California public drinking water systems to monitor for Escherichia coli (E. coli) in the source water of their drinking water systems, or face penalties…
Newmont Mining Corporation’s 51.35%-owned subsidiary, Minera Yanacocha S.R.L., is still named a defendant in lawsuits filed by Peruvian citizens on the elemental mercury spill incident in Choropampa, Peru.
In June 2000, a transport contractor of Yanacocha spilled about 151 kilograms of…
LOS ANGELES, California — November 6, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with El Monte, Calif.- based Champion-Arrowhead, LLC, for allegedly failing to submit toxic chemical reports detailing the amounts of copper, lead, and zinc compounds it…
LOS ANGELES, California — November 6, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fined Four Quarters Wholesale, Inc., a Los Angeles, Calif., distributor of general merchandise, $6,000 for distributing unregistered pesticides in violation of federal pesticide law.
The EPA determined…
Newmont Mining Corporation reports that in August 2008, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado approved a settlement regarding all outstanding issues at a site in Leadville, Colo.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas previously…
Newmont Mining Corporation remains a potentially responsible party associated with a historic tailings pile at the Grey Eagle Mine site near Happy Camp, Calif.
By letter dated Sept. 3, 2002, the Company was notified that the Environmental Protection Agency had expended…
DENVER, Colorado — November 6, 2008 — Kenneth L. Schell and Twin Peaks Excavating, Inc. of Erie, Colo., have agreed to pay a civil penalty of $35,000 for alleged unauthorized discharges of excavated material to Rock Creek.
The alleged violations of…
Newmont Mining Corporation is still facing a lawsuit regarding an abandoned mine adit on property previously owned by a Company predecessor and currently owned by the City of Grass Valley, Calif.
On Feb. 3, 2004, the City brought suit against the…