Sunshine Pride Dairy Inc. will pay a $179,074 penalty to settle alleged federal environmental violations related to releases of anhydrous ammonia at its former cheese processing facility in Winchester, Va.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency seeks to revise its accidental release prevention requirements of Risk Management Programs (RMP) under the Clean Air Act, Section 112(r)(7).

The American Hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) Coalition filed an antidumping duty petition charging that unfairly traded imports of R-134a from China are causing material injury to the U.S. fluorochemicals industry.

A final settlement with Millard Refrigerated Services was reached Tuesday that resolves alleged violations relating to the airborne release of ammonia from Millard’s Theodore, Ala., facility in 2010.

A Clean Air Act settlement was reached with Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., and several of its affiliate corporations, to address threats of accidental chemical releases after anhydrous ammonia was released during incidents at several of its facilities.