Environmental Health

The company behind a massive chemical spill last year has reached a $2.5 million deal with West Virginia environmental regulators for cleaning up its contaminated site

State regulators have reached a deal with bankrupt Freedom Industries that will set aside $2.5 million for the cleanup of the site of the January 2014 chemical spill that contaminated drinking water supplies for hundreds of thousands of people in Charleston and surrounding communities.

Royal HaskoningDHV and Dillon Consulting, together with Marin and RPS ASA, have been selected by Transport Canada to develop a methodology to assess the risks of ship-sourced oil spills in Canadian waters

The aim of the study is to develop a geographically focused process that allows Transport Canada to determine to most vulnerable Canadian waters and the need for additional measures to reduce the risks of a ship-sourced oil spill.

Risk assessment of shipping at sea

Hundreds of small turtles have washed up dead on the eastern  end of Long Island, a die-off scientists blame on waterborne toxins that have reached unprecedented levels for reasons that aren't entirely clear

Water service was suspended for more than 77,000 people on Monday April 13th, after it was discovered that holding tanks at a water treatment plant had been contaminated by an oil spill originating from a Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil line from the “Agave 32” petrochemical complex on the outskirts of the municipalities of Jalapa and Teapa

The spill was detected after citizens of Río Teapa complained of a foul petrolium smell along the Villahermosa–Jalapa highway, near the Pemex complex.