Industrial pollution
USVI oil refinery to shutter indefinitely amid violations

By Dánica Coto Jun. 21, 2021 04:42 PM EDT
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A huge oil refinery in the U.S. Virgin Islands that contaminated the environment in a series of events that sickened dozens of...

FILE - This Saturday, March 6, 2021 file photo shows vials of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a pharmacy in Denver. On Thursday, June 10, 2021, Johnson & Johnson said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration extended the expiration date on millions of doses of its COVID-19 vaccine by an extra six weeks. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Some J&J vaccine doses can be used, but many must be tossed

By Linda A. Johnson And Zeke Miller Jun. 11, 2021 11:19 AM EDT

UN: COVID-19 lockdowns slashed pollutants, not CO2 levels

Nov. 23, 2020 09:39 AM EST
GENEVA (AP) — A slowdown in industrial activity linked to the coronavirus pandemic has cut emissions of pollutants and heat-trapping greenhouse gases, but hasn...

Theresa Landrum is photographed near the Marathon refinery, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, in Detroit. Landrum wasn't impressed when told that Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler had pledged $200,000 to promote "community health initiatives" in her section of the city during his blitz of visits to battleground states in the presidential election campaign. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Minority communities question election-year push by EPA

By John Flesher Oct. 25, 2020 09:59 AM EDT

FILE - This Feb. 9, 2016, file photo is the Hull-Rust Mahoning Mine viewed from the overlook in Hibbing, Minn. The Trump administration is seeking to fast-track mining projects and could offer grants and loans to help companies pay for equipment, administration officials said Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, as they offered details on a plan that critics said could spoil rivers and lakes in Minnesota, Idaho and elsewhere with mining pollution. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
Trump pushes mining with order, but effects are uncertain

By Matthew Brown And Steve Karnowski Oct. 01, 2020 06:20 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 21, 2020, file photo the Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery is shown in Detroit. Thousands of oil and gas operations, government facilities and other sites won permission to stop monitoring for hazardous emissions or otherwise bypass rules intended to protect health and the environment because of the coronavirus outbreak, The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Cathy Bussewitz, John Flesher, Matthew Brown And Michael Casey Aug. 24, 2020 05:33 AM EDT

In this Friday, Aug. 14, 2020, photo New Hampshire Rep. Nancy Murphy, D-Merrimack, poses for a photo in the under-construction water filtration site for two of her town's contaminated wells, which is about two miles from the Saint-Gobain plastics factory in Merrimack, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Thousands allowed to bypass environmental rules in pandemic

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Cathy Bussewitz, John Flesher, Matthew Brown And Michael Casey Aug. 24, 2020 12:24 AM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden leaves after speaking at a campaign event at the Colonial Early Education Program at the Colwyck Training Center, Tuesday, July 21, 2020 in New Castle, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Dems push universal health care, police overhaul in platform

By Bill Barrow Jul. 21, 2020 08:56 PM EDT

Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, speaks during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee oversight hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP)
Democrats decry 'pandemic of pollution' under Trump's EPA

By Matthew Daly May. 20, 2020 02:01 PM EDT

FILE - In this Thursday, May 7, 2020, file photo, smoke rises from LG Polymers plant, the site of a chemical gas leakage, in Vishakhapatnam, India. The plastics factory in India where a chemical gas leak killed 12 people and sickened hundreds more last week lacked federal environmental clearance but had been issued state permits to operate anyway, exposing a potentially dangerous enforcement gap in the country's laws. The owner of the LG Polymers plant in Andhra Pradesh state, South Korean chemicals giant LG Chem, said in a May 2019 affidavit that formed part of an application for the clearance that the company "doesn't have a valid environmental clearance substantiating the produced quantity, issued by the competent authority, for continuing operations." (AP Photo/File)
Indian LG plant lacked environmental clearance before leak

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Emily Schmall May. 12, 2020 10:13 AM EDT

James Jackson fishes along the Houston Ship Channel Monday, March 23, 2020, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
'They're killing us,' Texas residents say of Trump rollbacks

By Ellen Knickmeyer Apr. 19, 2020 12:12 PM EDT

Cleanup of contaminated Illinois site delayed due to virus

Apr. 18, 2020 09:21 AM EDT
DEPUE, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says work is expected to begin later this year to clean up contaminated soil on residential yards...