The ServiceMaster Company’s subsidiary, Terminix, is in negotiations with the Environmental Protection Agency to resolve Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) matters with respect to the Vertut Packaging and Blending Superfund Site in Memphis, Tenn.
On April 11,…
SAN FRANCISCO, California — October 27, 2008 — The U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, filed a complaint seeking more than $22 million to recover past…
Celanese Corporation had provisions totaling US$11 million as of Sept. 30, 2008, for the investigation and cleanup of about 50 sites, compared with US$13 million as of Dec. 31, 2007.
The Company has a potential liability under the U.S. Federal Comprehensive…
BOSTON, Massachusetts — October 28, 2008 — An oil distribution company will pay $8,000 for failing to adequately prepare and implement Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans at two of its Stonington, Maine facilities.
An inspection by EPA and…
SAN FRANCISCO, California — October 28, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled with Vernon, Calif., based Filo America for $20,800 for allegedly selling an unregistered disinfectant bathroom cleaner, a violation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide…
Covanta Holding Corporation’s subsidiary, on Oct. 1, 2008, resolved its liability related to the remediation of the Beede Waste Oil Superfund site in Hew Hampshire.
In June 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency named subsidiary Covanta Haverhill Inc., as a potentially…
Alcoa Inc. continues to await the Environmental Protection Agency’s Record of Decision regarding remediation at the Grasse River, adjacent to the Company’s Massena, N.Y. plant site.
The Company has been conducting investigations of the Grasse River for levels of polychlorinated biphenyl…
The Environmental Protection Agency’s final review of a feasibility study regarding the remediation at Alcoa Inc.’s former East St. Louis, Ill., operations is still suspended.
In the second quarter of 2007, the EPA temporarily suspended its final review of the feasibility…
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — October 24, 2008 — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that Kidde-Fenwal, Inc. has settled alleged violations of federal toxic chemical reporting at two plants located in Ranson, W.Va.
EPA cited the company for violating the Emergency Planning…
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — October 24, 2008 — Flaw Inc. has settled a case involving alleged violations of federal regulations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at its used oil storage facility at 1600 South 25th St., Easton, Pa.
In a consent agreement with…