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July 9, 2025

More than $900 million awarded to clients from PFAS water contamination settlement

Source: https://www.waterworld.com/, July 8, 2025 SL Environmental Law Group announced on June 18, 2025, that funds from the 3M and DuPont water settlements – the largest of their kind in U.S. history according to the group – are now being released to relieve water providers of some of the financial burden of removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl […]

July 8, 2025

DuPont agrees to settle lawsuit over Hoosick Falls water pollution

Source: https://www.timesunion.com/, July 8m 2025 By: Brendan J. Lyons DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls, where the drinking water had been contaminated for decades by factories that used manufacturing chemicals produced by the […]

July 8, 2025

California walks back environmental law for housing, advanced manufacturing

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, July 8, 2025 By: Matthew Thibault The California Legislature has rolled back provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act in an effort to spur housing construction and cut red tape for other types of projects, according to a June 30 news release from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed the legislation the same day. The rollbacks, […]

July 7, 2025

NJ sues Branchburg firm over pollution

Source: https://www.mycentraljersey.com/, July 7, 2025 By: Mike Deak The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has filed suit against a longtime Readington Road business to recoup the DEP’s related costs of the “cleanup and removal” of contamination from the property. In the suit filed June 20 in Somerset County Superior Court, the DEP is seeking […]

July 3, 2025

Northeast Firms to Pay $1.37M to Settle Claims of Shoddy Runway Construction

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 3, 2025 Contractors from Maine, Connecticut and New York will pay $1.37 million to resolve allegations concerning false claims for payment related to the rehabilitation of a Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport runway in Westfield, Massachusetts. As part of the settlement agreement announced by the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, the three firms — Eurovia Atlantic […]

July 3, 2025

Construction firms are paying for quoting mistakes they don’t know they’re making

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, July 2, 2025 By: Chris Davis “Sending information into a broker and getting a quote is not going to get construction companies the results they want.” That’s the blunt assessment from Chelsi Hobbs (pictured), a commercial lines producer at CoVerica, on what she sees as a growing disconnect between coverage expectations and insurance […]

July 3, 2025

Honolulu water board sues Navy for $1.2B over fuel leak that contaminated drinking water

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/, July 2, 2025 By: Alexandra Koch The Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Navy, seeking more than $1 billion after the military branch released petroleum and other hazardous chemicals into OĘ»ahu, Hawaii‘s sole source of drinking water. During the incident, 27,000 gallons of toxic jet […]

July 1, 2025

Michigan Paper Manufacturer Agrees to $300K Settlement Over PFAS Contamination

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, June 27, 2025 Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a settlement agreement with Domtar Industries, LLC and E.B. Eddy Paper, Inc. (together, Domtar) to address releases of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the Techni-Comp, Inc. composting site near Port Huron. Nessel filed a lawsuit against the paper manufacture in December 2022. Read […]

July 1, 2025

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ could be contaminating millions of acres of farmland

Source: https://www.npr.org/, March 28, 2025 By: Teresa Homsi Biosolids (a byproduct of wastewater treatment) are often used as fertilizer. But toxic “forever chemicals”, or PFAS, could be contaminating that fertilizer, along with millions of acres of farmland. Read more.

June 30, 2025

PFAS Biosolids Ban Poised To Become Reality In Maine

Source: https://natlawreview.com/, April 20, 2022 By: John Gardella On April 15, 2022, the Maine state House and Senate both passed a bill (LD 1911) that would ban the use of biosolids that contain PFAS in land applications, unless it can be shown that the biosolids are PFAS free. While the PFAS biosolids ban addressed growing […]

June 30, 2025

Farmers threaten to sue the EPA over PFAS contamination spread to their farms through biosolids

Source: https://www.stlpr.org/, May 29, 2024 By: Teresa Homsi The EPA could soon face a lawsuit for not protecting farmers from “forever chemicals.” Biosolids are a type of treated sewage byproduct that make a nutrient-rich fertilizer, but PFAS are slipping through the cracks of wastewater treatment and could be contaminating millions of acres of farmland. Few […]

June 30, 2025

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Sewage Sludge

Source: https://www.epa.gov/ Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been manufactured and used by a broad range of industries since the 1940s, and there are estimated to be thousands of PFAS present in the global marketplace that are used in many consumer, commercial and industrial products. Multiple activities still result in PFAS being released to wastewater treatment […]

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