Edison International’s Midwest Generation, LLC subsidiary continues to face litigation regarding breaches of New Source Review (NSR) regulations.
In August 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Illinois filed a complaint in the Northern District of Illinois alleging…
United States Steel Corporation says that, on June 17, 2011, it received a Notice of Violation/Finding of Violation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleging that Gary Works violated the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants and the Indiana…
Union Pacific Corporation says the U.S. District Court in Omaha, Nebr., on Aug. 12, 2011, dismissed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation regarding the Omaha Lead Site.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considered Company unit
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Alcoa Inc. has been conducting investigations and studies of the Grasse River, adjacent to the Company’s Massena, N.Y., plant site, under a 1989 order from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued under CERCLA.
Sediments and fish in the river contain…
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company says the carrying amounts recorded for all indemnifications were US$106 million as of Sept. 30, 2011 and US$100 million as of Dec. 31, 2010.
In connection with acquisitions and divestitures, the Company has…
Southern California Edison Company’s recorded estimated minimum liability to remediate its 24 identified material sites (sites in which the upper end of the range of costs is at least US$1 million) was US$54 million, as of June 30, 2011, of…
Edison International’s Midwest Generation, LLC subsidiary’s plants’ environmental expenditures include US$34 million for remaining expenditures in 2011 related to selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) equipment.
The capital expenditures also include US$501 million for expenditures for the remainder of 2011 to 2013 to…
United States Steel Corporation is subject to a Notice of Violation/Finding of Violation on Gary Works’ alleged breaches of the reline of No. 4 Blast Furnace.
On July 3, 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region V issued the NOV/FOV, alleging…
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, at Sept. 30, 2011, has accruals of US$21 million related to PFOA (collectively, perfluorooctanoic acids and its salts, including the ammonium salt) matters.
The Company uses PFOA as a processing aid to manufacture…
United States Steel Corporation says that, as of Sept. 30, 2011, accrued liabilities for six environmental remediation projects totaled US$3 million for the costs of studies, investigations, interim measures, design and/or remediation.
There are six environmental remediation projects where reasonably possible…