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The goal of Environmental Crime Media Update is to provide current news on
a weekly basis on environmental crime. With the exception of items written
by UNEP and occasional contributions solicited from other organizations, the
news is sourced from on-line newspapers, journals and websites.
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 | Two Massachusetts Workers Plead Guilty to Illegal Asbestos Handling |
| Asbestos.Net News, 17th May 2010 |
| Two men from Middleboro, Massachusetts have recently pled guilty in New Bedford Superior Court to charges that they performed work in violation of the Massachusetts Clean Air Act. Arthur Amaral, 50, and Shawn Amaral, 38, of Northeast Demolition and Removal have entered their guilty plea for failing to follow asbestos ... |
 | Hazardous Waste Disposal Investigated At Business |
| cbs4denver.com, 14th May 2010 |
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DENVER (CBS4) ― CBS4 News has learned of a joint state and federal investigation into alleged illegal discharges of dangerous materials into the Metro Wastewater sewer system.
Authorities obtained a search warrant to raid Mid-America Plating two weeks ago. The company is located right behind the National Western Stock... |
| Former barge firm manager convicted of conspiring to pollute the San Francisco Bay |
| San Jose Mercury News, 13th May 2010 |
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A former tugboat company manager was convicted in federal court this week of violating environmental laws by dumping dredged materials in the waters north of Pittsburg.
Mark Guinn, 42, was formerly the general manager of Northern California operations of Brusco Tug & Barge Inc., which previously pled g... |
| A breath of soiled air |
| The Aucklander, 12th May 2010 |
| Otahuhu residents are fuming over Pacific Steel's push to keep pumping smoke into their skies. Doctors talk of possible illnesses from pollution. Rowena Orejana reports.
Great white puffs of smoke spew from the side of the Pacific Steel factory in Otahuhu. A few hundred metres behind, a bonfire is set and black smoke billo... |
| Trucking company investigated for illegal dumping |
| BusinessWeek, 11th May 2010 |
| The state Health Department has begun an investigation of a trucking company accused of dumping salty wastewater from oil fields on gravel roads in western North Dakota.
Dunn County officials accused Killdeer-based Wylie Bice Trucking Inc. of discharging the briny water last month near Manning. The company's owner denied t... |
 | Trafigura must pay additional £105m |
| Press TV, 11th May 2010 |
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Picture: Ivorian women who suffered from toxic waste dumping
The civil case against Trafigura for dumping toxic waste in the Ivory Coast has incurred £105m in legal costs, according to the claimants' lawyers.
Leigh Day and Co., who represented more than 30,000 victims that fell ill from toxic waste dumped by Trafigura... |
| A Perris home was used in a scheme to fraudulently claim can and bottle redemption fees, state says |
| Press-Enterprise, 6th May 2010 |
| Authorities have charged 35 people suspected of operating fraudulent can and bottle recycling operations -- including two in the Inland area -- that siphoned $3.5 million from the California container redemption fund, the state attorney general's office announced Wednesday.
The suspects, all facing felony counts, are suspe... |
 | Environmental crisis plagues Southern Italy |
| CNN International, 3rd May 2010 |
| Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are... |
 | Wal-mart toxic dumping case: $27 million |
| THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 3rd May 2010 |
| Picture: People pass in front of a Wal-Mart store in San Diego, Monday, May 3, 2010. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $27.6 million to settle allegations that it improperly handled and dumped hazardous waste at stores across California, prosecutors said Monday. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) STF
Walmart has agreed to pay $2... |
 | No jail for dentist in Shore dumping |
| Philadelphia Inquirer, 1st May 2010 |
| Picture: Thomas McFarland threw medical waste overboard in 2008, and it washed ashore.
He was fined, placed on probation for four years.
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE - Distraught and suicidal over his wife's cancer, a Pennsylvania dentist took a bag of medical waste he had been keeping in the trunk of his car for months, boarde... |
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