However, city services have not kept up with the swelling population, which has resulted in widespread environmental pollution, extensive squatter settlements in outlying areas, and rising rates of violent crime.
[B11.] Settlement of Pollution Complaints The Environmental Protection Agency said that Alcoa and Archer Daniels Midland had agreed to settle air pollution complaints by upgrading smelters and other factories at a cost estimated to be $700 million.
Like a tag-team wrestling match that has gone on so long nobody cares who wins, the long-running battle between Chevron and lawyers who hope to negotiate a billion-dollar settlement over pollution in the Ecuador jungle has entered yet another new phase.
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department announced today that a plywood manufacturer with 13 factories in four states had agreed to a $93.2 million settlement over air pollution violations, the largest settlement based on pollution from factories.
Pollution and sewage from settlements and fishponds near the shores were treated and diverted from the lake.
The settlement – the biggest pollution penalty in US history – was reached after a federal court found the company guilty of gross negligence.
-- Hot-rod mod: The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it had dropped a requirement that Harley-Davidson spend $3 million to fight air pollution as part of a settlement reached with the Obama administration," The Post's Sintia Radu reports.
An article yesterday about New York State's settlement of a pollution case against the past and current owners of a coal-fired power plant in Stony Point, N.Y., misstated the amount to be spent by the current owner, Mirant New York, to reduce emissions.
