Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
18, 2015, pent-up gases at ExxonMobils refinery in Torrance triggered an explosion so powerful it registered as a magnitude 1.7 But that near miss is raising new calls to ban a toxic chemical that is still used in Torrance to this day. On the morning of Feb. earthquake and sent industrial ash over entire neighborhoods.
Vermont Law
FEBRUARY 15, 2016
On October 7, 2015, an Ohio jury awarded Carla Marie Bartlett $1.6 million for negligence and $500,000 for emotional distress) after finding DuPont liable for leaking a toxic chemical into drinking water near one of its plants. By Lauren Gates. million ($1.1 As of 2014, EPA found C8 in. 94 public water systems. million Americans.
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Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Title III of the Act created EPCRA (see above). Toxic Substances Control Act : TSCA came into effect in 1976 to put in place a framework of screening chemical substances for potential hazards and problems before they become available in a chosen market.
Clean Energy Law
JULY 16, 2019
CCR Rule Damage Cases: EPA also reviewed the CCR damage cases evaluated for the agency’s 2015 CCR Rule. EPA explained that “[i]n any cases where releases might occur, the 2015 CCR Rule includes both closure and corrective action provisions that could be used to remedy those releases.”. What’s Next?
Legal Planet
MARCH 14, 2023
Since 2015, there have been more than one hundred railroad accidents involving transport of hazardous substances – about 1 per month—far less than the thousand plus derailments experienced every year, but a shockingly large number when one thinks recognizes how dangerous some of these hazardous materials are.
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 19, 2022
Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. The EPA under both the George W.
Arnold Porter
DECEMBER 3, 2021
Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various federal and state government agencies and potential litigants. EPA, Pay $117,000 in Fines (Oct. 6, 2021).]]
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