Corbin covers EPA and environmental health for E&E News, where he has worked since 2014. His reporting on the danger that oil and gas development poses to national wildlife refuges and the people who live around them won a National Press Club award for analytical reporting. He previously covered environmental policy at SNL Energy and the Center for Public Integrity and has freelanced for The Economist, Mother Jones and many other publications. As an editor, he has worked at The Huffington Post and PBS MediaShift. He has a degree in international relations from Bowdoin College.
A towering explosion at a century-old Philadelphia oil refinery earlier this year released 5,239 pounds of a hydrofluoric acid, federal investigators said today, the first time they have seen releases of the potentially deadly chemical during a refinery blast.
EPA and American Refining Group Inc. this afternoon announced a nearly $4.9 million settlement to resolve a spate of alleged Clean Air Act violations at a 138-year-old petroleum refinery in Bradford, Pa.
BARNESVILLE, Ohio — Jill Hunkler's cottage is flanked by four oil and gas well pads that EPA cited in 2016 for allegedly spewing organ-damaging air pollution. But after Gulfport Energy asked EPA Chief of Staff Ryan Jackson for help, serious violations at those wells and a dozen other nearby sites remain unresolved.
EPA's internal watchdog today slammed the agency for repeatedly overlooking when public water systems don't adequately inform their customers of drinking water violations that could put the public at risk.
EPA's chief of staff fixed a $100,000 problem for a fellow Oklahoma Republican. That meant more "whiskey fungus" on homes in a small town in Indiana and more smog for Cincinnati. But Ryan Jackson says fixing enforcement cases is part of his job.