Martin County Coal Corp. (MCCC), Inez, Ky., has entered into an Administrative Order on Consent (Order) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act which resulted from the sudden release of approximately 250 million gallons of coal slurry into rivers and streams in Kentucky and West Virginia.
The European Commission wants to make polluting water supplies and other environmental offenses crimes at the European Union (EU) level for the first time.
Weatherford Completion Systems, Drilling Products and Services Group, headquarted in Houston, welcomes Frank Wilson as senior mud/slurry engineer of national operations.
Some residents in Chesapeake, Va., have hired experts to build a case against the city stemming from trihalomethane (THM) contamination of the municipal water supply during the 1990s.
The World Health Organization reports that a do-it-yourself technique of disinfecting water with sunlight and plastic soft-drink bottles could save hundreds of thousands of lives a year.
Third-party testing organization NSF International is shifting rules and regulations governing portions of the standard microbiological water treatment technologies.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have ordered the River Ridge Development Co. and construction company Hartford Homes, Windsor, Colo., to stop illegal earthmoving activities on the site of a residential development in Larimer County, Colo.
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