Bayer is one of the largest pharmaceutical, chemical, and biomedical companies in the world, with a reported revenue of over $54 billion in 2023. After it acquired Monsanto in 2018, Bayer became the sole holding company of P4 Production, which operates a phosphate ore mining and refining facility in the town of Soda Springs, Idaho. […]
Known as “America’s Port,” the Port of Los Angeles is the largest container ship port in the Western Hemisphere, encompassing some 7,500 acres and handling almost $1 billion worth of cargo every single day. Despite the size and scope of the Port’s operations, NELC attorneys have determined that a major wastewater treatment system at the […]
The soup production and canning facility operated by Campbell Soup Supply Co. in Napoleon, Ohio, produces many of the soups, juices, and canned goods that have long been staples of pantries and cupboards throughout the country. Such products have helped turn Campbell’s into a food manufacturing behemoth, with over $9.4 billion in sales in 2023 […]
Styropek USA, Inc. operates a major plastic production facility at the confluence of Raccoon Creek and a heavily industrialized stretch of the Ohio River, approximately 20 miles outside of Pittsburgh. Along with its wholly-owned subsidiary BVPV Styrenics LLC, Styropek produce approximately 123,000 tons of expandable polystyrene (EPS) beads, or “nurdles,” at the nondescript facility each year. The […]
Following NELC’s successful lawsuits against Shell Oil Co. and Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. for illegal air emissions due to “upset” incidents, we continued our efforts to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for poor air quality on Texas’s Gulf Coast by targeting the nation’s largest refining complex, ExxonMobil’s Baytown facility near Houston. Due to equipment […]