Minnesota’s $5 billion case over 3M chemicals heads to trial

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota officials will soon try to convince a jury that manufacturer 3M Co. should pay the state $5 billion to help clean up environmental damage that the state alleges was caused by pollutants the company dumped for decades. The long-awaited trial begins Tuesday in Minneapolis. Experts say it could have wide-reaching implications... Read More

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3M, Environment

February 9, 2018

18 states, coal group, US Chamber want ash order overturned

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Eighteen states, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, national coal industry interests and more than a dozen other groups are urging an appeals court to overturn a coal ash cleanup order at a federal utility’s Tennessee plant, contending the decision will have wide-reaching, expensive consequences. In a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of... Read More

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Coal, Environment

February 9, 2018

Judge hears testimony on pipeline’s environmental impact

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge heard testimony Thursday that construction of a crude oil pipeline in a Louisiana swamp is tearing down irreplaceable, centuries-old trees, destroying animal habitats and jeopardizing fishermen’s livelihoods. But the company building the Bayou Bridge pipeline though the heart of Cajun country insists that governmental regulators issued a... Read More

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Alaska Pipeline, Environment

January 11, 2018

Michigan sues company over chemical contaminants in water

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan environmental regulators on Wednesday sued footwear company Wolverine World Wide over widely used industrial chemical contaminants that were dumped into the ground decades ago and have seeped into drinking water, saying the lawsuit is necessary to lock into place response efforts and to reimburse the government for past and future... Read More

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Environment, Wolverine World Wide

December 8, 2017

US fails to enforce smog rules, 14 states allege in lawsuit

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Fourteen states and the District of Columbia announced Thursday that they are suing the Trump administration over what they say is a failure to enforce smog standards. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not designated any areas of the country as having unhealthy air, missing an Oct. 1 deadline, according to... Read More

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Environment, Smog

Minnesota’s $5 billion case over 3M chemicals heads to trial

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Judge hears testimony on pipeline’s environmental impact

Michigan sues company over chemical contaminants in water

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