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The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) said today that it is investigating the fatal explosions and fires at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, that occurred on Monday. Two people were killed in the …

A judge has stopped government contractors in five states from sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill after a year of legal challenges by Detroit-area communities concerned about possible environmental impacts. Wayne County Judge Kevin Cox said the risk was …

Flash flooding canceled the final day of the Wisconsin State Fair on Sunday as continued heavy rainfall in half a dozen Midwest states forced motorists to abandon their vehicles, cut power to thousands of households and closed busy roadways. Organizers …

Brian Keeper doesn’t remember exactly when his family began spending holidays in Hunt, an unincorporated town on the banks of the Guadalupe River where they’d camp, swim, and fish. Sometimes they caught so many perch, bass, and catfish that it …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) and Hamilton Insurance Group. A summary of these new hires follows here. BHSI Names QBE’s Masciovecchio as Country Manager, Switzerland Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced …

Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two U.S. charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud. Kwon, 33, who co-founded Singapore-based Terraform …

Specialist Risk Group (SRG), the London-based group of insurance intermediaries, has entered into an agreement to acquire City Quarter Brokers, subject to regulatory approval. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. City Quarter Brokers is a highly regarded London-headquartered …

Firefighters continue to slowly make gains a massive wildfire burning in two California counties, now the biggest fire in the state this year, reaching “megafire” status. The Gifford Fire is threatening more than 822 structures and has prompted hundreds of …

A Georgia man who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, shooting dozens of rounds into the sprawling complex and killing a police officer, had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, …

A federal judge ordered the Chemours Chemical Company on Thursday to immediately stop discharging unlawful levels of cancer-causing chemicals into the Ohio River from the company’s Washington Works plant in West Virginia. “Those pollutants endanger the environment, aquatic life, and …

As wildfires raged across Los Angeles in January, a state official parried an email from a resident living on the edge of the conflagration: When would long-delayed regulations designed to protect high-risk homes like hers be implemented? “I do not …

Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday his artificial intelligence startup xAI would take legal action against Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of breaching antitrust regulations in managing the App Store rankings. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it …

Finland’s national prosecutor’s office said on Monday it had brought charges against the captain and first and second officers of the Eagle S oil tanker over the cutting of undersea cables in the Gulf of Finland in December. The Georgian …

Two workers were killed and at least 10 other people hospitalized with injuries after an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant outside of Pittsburgh on Monday. According to Allegheny County Emergency Services, the explosion happened inside a battery operating area …

Wildfires briefly shut the Dardanelles Strait to shipping on Monday, as extreme heat and strong winds fueled blazes across the Mediterranean. The Dardanelles — a vital maritime chokepoint for oil and gas from the Black Sea and Central Asia — …

Swiss Re AG issued guidance for underwriters on how to assess life insurance applications of people who show signs of using medications for longevity purposes. Metformin, traditionally used to manage type 2 diabetes, and rapamycin, an immunosuppressant developed for organ …

Eight of Taiwan’s southern and eastern regional governments decided to shut down schools and offices because of typhoon Podul, which is expected to reach the island on Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and damaging wind gusts. The typhoon was 460 kilometers …

“Are you being serious?” Christopher Swift, chair and chief executive officer of The Hartford, was taken aback by a question from an analyst during the company’s second-quarter earnings call about the impact of litigation finance on the insurer’s results. “It’s …

Liberty Mutual will give up $4.7 million in profit to settle a U.S. criminal bribery probe into an Indian subsidiary, in the Department of Justice’s first public enforcement action of a federal anti-bribery law it resumed enforcing in June. In …

PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman is accused of posing as a licensed nurse and giving medical care to thousands of patients, authorities said. Autumn Marie Bardisa, 29, of Palm Coast, participated in medical services involving 4,486 people …