Pollution accidentelle des eaux par produits chimiques

It’s been almost a year since a barge transporting coal ash from Puerto Rico to a landfill in Folkston, Georgia, spilled more than 5,000 tons of the toxic industrial byproduct into the ocean off Atlantic Beach.

The Environment Protection Authority is looking into how the chemical compound entered the waterway, but is yet to determine whether it was an accident.

The acid mine drainage happened at Khwezela Colliery’s south shaft, which had been sealed, but the volume of water exceeded the maximum capacity for treatment at the dosing site

“We’re putting industrial operators on notice that the waters of Northwest Indiana can’t be polluted without consequence."

A catastrophic fire that led to a toxic spill is now affecting wildlife in neighbouring rivers with one wildlife hospital inundated with ducks covered in oil.

La direction d’Eyrein Industrie a été entendue mardi 11 janvier au tribunal correctionnel de Tulle pour répondre de sa responsabilité face aux fuites de produits chimiques dans la rivière Montane en 2018. La décisio

Après les émeutes de juillet 21, la municipalité a fermé les plages par mesure de précaution et demandé aux habitants de ne pas pêcher, surfer ou prendre des poissons morts trouvés sur les lieux.

Pollution de la rivière Bečva : les députés critiquent le prélèvement et l’analyse des échantillons

For three days, chemicals poured into a tributary which fed into the Umdhloti river and eventually made its way into the sea.

Shell Polymers reported a 2,500-gallon sulfuric acid spill at Beaver County’s ethane cracker plant site on Saturday, telling regulators the discharge was caught in a secondary containment tank and ne…

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A massive clean-up operation involving hazmat teams has begun a after freight train derailed and spilled hazardous chemicals into the ground, with as many as 25 carriages toppling over

Le procès de la pollution de l’eau du robinet avait lieu mardi devant le tribunal de Foix. On y a appris davantage sur cette pollution au perchloréthylène… ce qui soulève d’autres questions.

Colorado, the U.S. government and a gold mining company have agreed to resolve a longstanding dispute over who’s responsible for cleanup at a Superfund site that was established after a massive 2015 spill of hazardous mine waste.

Beaches between the uMgeni River Mouth and Salt Rock reopened for recreational purposes on Tuesday while fishing and harvesting of marine resources on the coastline remains prohibited

Les forces de l'ordre et les pompiers ont été mobilisés cours Lafayette après une fuite d'acide sulfurique. Le produit chimique s'est répandu sur la chaussée et dans les égoûts.

Indiana Dunes National Park closed all of its beaches and a northwest Indiana water utility shut down an intake facility after an orange substance apparently spilled from a U.S. Steel plant into a Lake Michigan tributary

The owners of Port Pirie's lead smelter are fined $35,000 for a series of failures that led to 700 litres of "toxic" sulphuric acid leaking from the plant into waterways and mangroves near the town.

As the sixth anniversary of the Gold King Mine spill approaches, the New Mexico Office of the Natural Resources Trustee is seeking proposals for restoration projects along the impacted river system in the northwest part of the state. The office hosted a webinar on Wednesday to provide groups interested in submitting restoration projects with details […]