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Communities Can’t Recycle or Trash E-Cigarettes. So, What Happens to Them?
With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely get rid of millions of small, battery-powered devices that are ...
‘Far Too Many’ Companies Fail to Disclose Environmental Data, CDP Shows
Too many companies are failing to respond to environmental transparency requests, nonprofit platform CDP said on Tuesday, after only 1.3 percent of firms scored an "A" ...
Foam With ‘Forever Chemicals’ Used to Put Out Chemical Plant Fire
A company hired to help extinguish a fire that gutted a northern Illinois chemical plant last week used foam containing toxic compounds that have tainted surface waters and groundwater across the ...
Hurricane Florence Shuts Down Slaughter Plants, Damages Hog Manure Pits
U.S. food companies kept slaughter plants shut on Monday in southeastern states swamped by Hurricane Florence as catastrophic flooding killed nearly 2 million chickens, collapsed the walls of at ...
EPA Orders Cleanup for Superfund Site Flooded by Harvey
The Trump administration has handed a rare victory to environmentalists, ordering two big corporations this week to pay $115 million to clean up a Texas toxic waste site that may have spread ...
EPA Removed Waste at Texas Toxic Sites in Harvey Response Efforts
The Environmental Protection Agency says it has recovered 517 containers of "unidentified, potentially hazardous material'' from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month ...
UK Urged to Reassess Building Design in Age of Global Warming
Britain must reassess the way it designs buildings to cope with a warming climate, stepping away from huge expanses of glass and beyond air conditioning that consumes too much energy, a panel ...
The Latest Launches From XL Catlin and Starr Companies
XL Catlin issued a new environmental insurance product in Ireland designed to address new guidance from the Environmental Protection Agency. Starr Companies paired with a law firm to provide ...