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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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 | La. man arrested in illegal dumping case |
| Water Technology Online, 19th February 2010 |
| OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) - The director of a company that operates several wastewater treatment facilities in Louisiana has been arrested on charges he allowed untreated wastewater to be illegally dumped.
The state Department of Environmental Quality said 57-year-old Joseph L. Jones, of Opelousas, faces 12 felony charges involv... |
| Waste firm fined €60,000 for illegal dumping |
| TE.ie, 19th February 2010 |
| A waste disposal company and its director have been fined €60,000 for illegal dumping at sites in Co Wicklow in 2001.
Dublin Waste and Louis Moriarty had pleaded guilty to dumping lorry loads of waste, including highly infectious clinical waste, in Coolnamadra and at Whitestown, Baltinglass, on dates in 2001.
Judge Tony... |
| EU Considers Dedicated Waste Agency |
| Recycle By Andrew Roberts (UK), 5th February 2010 |
| Over the last two years the European Union has outlined specific directives for its member nations to reduce waste and increase recycling rates. The rules have been effective in some cases as countries in the EU have raised their recycling rates and many have decreased the size of their landfills. Even though mo... |
 | IEPA works to clean up illegal dump site in East Peoria |
| Peoria Journal Star, By Leslie Williams (USA), 4th February 2010 |
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Picture: Chris Goodwin with REACT environmental engineers supervises as workers clean up tires, debris and years of illegally dumped waste in a ravine off of Linden Lane and Brow Court in East Peoria. Goodwin said that they already had hauled away four trash bins of debris.
EAST PEORIA — Decades of illegal dumping in ... |
| The world's radioactive rubbish is piling up |
| The Japan Times, By Michael Richardson (Japan), 3rd February 2010 |
| The Pacific Sandpiper, a specially built cargo ship with safety features far in excess of those found on conventional vessels, left Britain's Barrow port bound for Japan the other day.
The security surrounding its departure on Jan. 21 indicates that something out of the ordinary is aboard. The Pacific Sandpiper and severa... |
| EPA targets chemical often dumped in Chicago sewers |
| Chicago Tribune, By Michael Hawthorne (USA), 31st January 2010 |
| Chemicals used in Scotchgard and Teflon are regulated, but metal plating companies got a pass by Bush's EPA
Alarmed by research linking chemicals used to make Scotchgard and Teflon to cancer, liver disease and other health problems, the federal government spent the last decade pressuring manufacturers to phase out the stai... |
 | Suspicious Shipwrecks and Toxic Seas |
| IndyPosted (blog), By Maggie Romuld (USA), 30th January 2010 |
| Increasingly stringent environmental regulations, and increased costs for processing, transporting and storing toxic waste have made illegal dumping a profitable business throughout the world, and yesterday, Scientific American reported that scientists from the University of Calabria in Italy are certain that ships fu... |
| 672-gallon oil spill fouls Huntington Beach channel |
| Los Angeles Times By Tony Barboza, 28th January 2010 |
| The oil traveled 1.8 miles downstream, but did not reach the Talbert wetlands or the ocean. The EPA says the source is unknown. The cleanup is expected to take about three weeks.
Crews are working to clean up an oil spill that dumped an estimated 672 gallons of crude oil last week into a Huntington Beach flood-control chan... |
 | Landfill owner pleads guilty to hazardous waste, drug charges |
| Hamilton Journal News By Dave Greber, 25th January 2010 |
| Picture: Ray Skinner II of West Chester Twp. is seen here in court Thurs., May 28, 2009. Dave Greber/File photo
HAMILTON — The West Chester Twp. man accused of selling drugs within sight of an elementary school and operating an illegal landfill at his home has pleaded guilty to his charges.
Ray Skinner II, 64, of 8750 C... |
| EPA fines Monterey Park firm |
| Pasadena Star-News (USA), 20th January 2010 |
| - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday ordered a local firm to pay up to $37,500 a day retroactive to October for abandoning thousands of pounds of electronic waste.
Monterey Park-based ZKW Trading - which buys goods and sells them for a profit overseas - defied an EPA order in September to remove its 38 ... |
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