State Fines N. Bergen Polluter $463,500
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By ALEX NUSSBAUM, STAFF WRITER  The state has fined a North Bergen company nearly half a million dollars for repeatedly polluting a tributary of the Hackensack River and failing to monitor its air emissions.  Frutarom USA Inc.
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 11--GRASS VALLEY-A failure in the city's sewage system Sunday caused about 1,200 gallons of effluent to overflow from a manhole into Little Wolf Creek.
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By Bertrand M. Gutierrez, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 3--Winston-Salem State University was fined $27,000 in December for violating state hazardous-waste laws, the third-largest fine statewide last year for such violations.
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By FRANK ELTMAN  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. - A titanium maker and its owner were charged with illegally storing more than 11 tons of corrosive hazardous waste, creating a mess that a prosecutor compared to a horror movie scene.
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The European Union head office imposed fines totaling about &#36;283 million on three companies on Wednesday for carving up among themselves the European market for a chemical used to produce detergents, food and cosmetics.
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By Walter Griffin, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 15--BELFAST -- A local discount retailer has agreed to pay $8,250 to the state's hazardous waste fund after admitting that it improperly disposed of hundreds of fluorescent light bulbs.
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Cleaning up about half of the 117,000 leaking underground fuel storage tanks nationwide will cost the public about $12 billion, Congress' investigative arm said in a report released on Thursday.
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A public relations company billed the city&#39;s Department of Water and Power for more than $4 million in questionable costs that it should repay, according to an audit released Tuesday.
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States from Alabama to Wyoming collected such low fees from major polluters that they may have shortchanged efforts to fight air pollution by up to $50 million, an environmental group reported on Wednesday.
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Citgo Petroleum Corp. will install $320 million in pollution controls in six refineries and pay $3.6 million to settle a federal lawsuit charging the company with violating the Clean Air Act, the Justice Department announced yesterday.
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By Eben Harrell  IT WAS a chemical spill that poisoned a stretch of a scenic Scottish river and left 7,000 fish dead.   But Scottish Water - turnover GBP 1 billion a year - was ordered to pay a GBP 5,000 fine over the incident yesterday.
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By BETH DeFALCO, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  TRENTON  New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency over air pollution from a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania that drifts across the Delaware River into New Jersey.
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By Terry McCoy, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 26--The state Department of Environmental Protection issued a mild hand slap in the form of a $61,000 civil penalty against Moyer Packing Co.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  New Jersey and 11 other states sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to lower soot levels from smokestacks and exhaust pipes, a move the state officials argue would save thousands of lives.
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By Mary E. Young, Reading Eagle, Pa. May 26--Berks County's environmental defense fund stands to nearly double to $1.45 million because of landfill penalties announced Friday by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 25--When the Petersens' well ran dry in June, the family dealt with the lack of water the best they could.   The Prunedale residents spent hundreds of dollars for thousands of gallons of water to be trucked to their home.
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A Norwalk doctor accused in a vaccine fraud case has been fined $30,000 and has been placed on probation for two years. Doctor Jorge Elias had been charged with billing Medicaid and other