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On January 25, 2024, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD – see Note 1) announced new draft guidelines titled “Guidelines on Harassment in the Workplace” (the...

The NC Department of Environmental Quality is taking Colonial Pipeline to court for allegedly "failing to meet their obligations" in its clean up of a 1.29-million gallon gasoline spill in Huntersville, the nation's largest such accident since 1991. According to the complaint, filed in Mecklenburg County Superior Court, Colonial has failed to provide DEQ with…

The NC Department of Environmental Quality has issued a Notice of Continuing Violation to Colonial Pipeline regarding with ongoing contamination from a major gasoline spill in Huntersville. The spill, which occurred in August 2020, released an estimated 1,289,190 gallons of product, equivalent to 30,695 barrels, the nation's largest such spill onshore since at least 1997. However,…

State Sen. Natasha Marcus - (D) NC - District 41 said. Sen. Marcus said no one yet knows exactly how much gasoline has spilled. In its release, NCDEQ said it has given Colonial until April 26 to file an accurate report. “Colonial is required to provide a revised Comprehensive Site Assessment (CSA) by April 26 in response to the February Notice of Continuing Violation, which identified 22 deficiencies in Colonial’s CSA and directed Colonial Pipeline to extend residential private well samplin...

Here are some selected news articles from the week ended 06 March 2021. Part 2 is available here. This is a feature at Global Economic Intersection every Monday evening or Tuesday morning. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Fuel supplies drop most on record as US oil refining collapses, leading to largest ever jump in oil supplies Refinery utilization at an all time low, 10% lower than its ever been; oil refined is least on record; re...

Aerial view of the Colonial Pipeline gasoline spill in Huntersville. North Carolina environmental officials have ordered Colonial Pipeline to expand testing of private wells around the site of a massive gasoline spill last year in Huntersville. The expanded testing is among 22 "corrective actions" ordered by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. The DEQ says Colonials 1,600-page Jan. 20 Comprehensive Site Assessment doesnt have enough information to determine the full impact o...