MDU Resources Group, Inc.’s affiliate, Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, is involved in two claims on contamination and cleanup at manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites in Washington.
The first claim is for contamination at a site in Washington and was received in…
The Company is the subject of an ongoing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigation for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.
In March 2009, the EPA issued a Finding of Violation (FOV) related to alleged violations of the CAA, specifically the…
MDU Resources Group, Inc.’s affiliate Morse Bros., Inc. (MBI) continues to be a potentially responsible party (PRP) at a riverbed site, which is part of the Portland, Ore., Harbor Superfund Site.
In December 2000, MBI was named by the U.S. Environmental…
Nucor Corporation’s total accrued environmental costs were US$38.8 million at July 4, 2009, compared with US$27.1 million at Dec. 31, 2008.
Of the US$38.8 million at July 4, 2009, about US$21.8 million was classified in accrued expenses and other current liabilities…
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. is a potentially responsible party under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERLA) in connection with the Lemberger Landfill Superfund Site near Manitowoc, Wis.
About 150 potentially responsible parties have been identified as having shipped…
Mirant Corporation says Mirant MD Ash Management, LLC and Mirant Mid-Atlantic, LLC’s bid to dismiss the Maryland Department of the Environment’s (MDE) lawsuit on the Faulkner Fly Ash Facility remains pending.
On April 2, 2008, the Environmental Integrity Project and the…
MDU Resources Group, Inc. says that, on July 30, 2009, the Sierra Club appealed the dismissal of its case and the denial of its motion for reconsideration on matters regarding the Big Stone Station.
In June 2008, the Sierra Club filed…
Avery Dennison environmental liabilities were US$59.2 million as of July 4, 2009, compared with US$58.5 million as of Dec. 27, 2008.
As of July 4, 2009, about US$12 million of the total balance is classified as short-term.
As of July 4, 2009,…
Target Corporation is one of many defendants in a lawsuit filed on Feb. 13, 2008, by the State of California involving environmental matters that may involve potential monetary sanctions in excess of US$100,000.
The allegation, initially made by the California Air…
Mirant Corporation says that its subsidiary, Mirant Lovett, LLC and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), on July 17, 2009, entered into a consent order that resolved a proceeding initiated by the NYSDEC staff’s April 16, 2008…