Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, December 17, 2020 Imagine that a small group of people coordinated the intentional manufacture and release of a lethal poison – and imagine they knew this poison had special properties that meant, once released into the world, it would be inevitable that it would make its way into the blood of virtually every […]

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/, December 15, 2020 By: Jennifer Van Grove Following extensive litigation and investigation, Lockheed Martin is expected to soon begin work on a state-ordered — and court-mandated — environmental remediation project meant to clean up a portion of San Diego Bay’s Harbor Island East Basin that was subject to decades of pollution. Last week, […]

Source: https://news.azpm.org/, December 11, 2020 By: Ariana Brocious Close to 20 backup groundwater wells for the city of Tucson have been contaminated by a group of man-made chemicals known as PFAS, which stands for perfluorinated alkyl substances. Now, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is working to clean up and limit the spread of the […]

Source: https://www.ecowatch.com/, December 11, 2020 By: Olivia Rosane A Kinder Morgan pipeline leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline into a waterway in Walnut Creek, California, prompting concerns from residents worried about the company’s safety record. Locals are mistrustful of the company after a 2004 explosion on the same line killed five construction workers and injured four […]

Source: https://www.nny360.com/, December 11, 2020 By: Randy Pellis Finding lead, barium and arsenic four feet beneath Oswego High School’s Wilber Field has put a bit of a crimp in the district’s $63 million capital project and may necessitate a re-evaluation of some of the project’s future components, according to Oswego City School District Superintendent Mathis […]

Source: https://www.theadvocate.com/, December 8, 2020 By: Claire Taylor The St. Landry Parish government and the village of Cankton are suing more than 25 companies, including Chevron, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips, over alleged groundwater contamination from a former 80-acre oilfield waste disposal site about 15 miles from Lafayette. Lafayette attorney William Goodell, representing the parish and […]

Source: https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/, December 8, 2020 By: Hannah Hagemann The County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed a measure that will give the State Department of Finance more time to review a mixed-use affordable housing project poised to be built at 1500 Capitola Road. The project would include 57 affordable housing units, a Dientes dental clinic, […]

Source: https://www.newscentermaine.com/, December 4, 2020 By: Vivien Leigh More than a dozen homeowners in the town of Fairfield are being advised to use bottled water after their well water was found to be tainted with high levels of “forever chemicals.” Investigators from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have tested nearly 40 residential wells […]

Source: https://www.gazettenet.com/, December 3, 2020 By: Scott Merzbach The University of Massachusetts and the UMass Building Authority are suing eight contractors for almost $3 million for their alleged role in the collapse of ductwork in kitchen exhaust systems at a refurbished dining facility on the Amherst campus. The lawsuit, filed in Hampshire Superior Court in […]

Source: https://www.ocregister.com/, December 2, 2020 By: Martin Wisckol Eleven Orange County water agencies have joined in a lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from DuPont, 3M and others whose carcinogenic chemicals have leached into groundwater aquifers and forced the closure of more than three dozen wells in the central and northern parts of the […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, December 1, 2020 By: Jonathan Stempel A federal judge has rejected Bayer AG’s proposed $648 million settlement of class-action litigation by cities and other claimants over contamination from polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, made by the former Monsanto Co. In a Nov. 25 decision, U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin in Los Angeles said the accord appeared […]

Source: https://vtdigger.org/, April 12, 2020 By: Elizabeth Gribkoff The long-standing practice of spreading treated sewage sludge and septage on farm fields has contaminated groundwater in some areas with PFAS, recent sampling shows. The discovery has prompted a state agriculture official to say that a prohibition on harvesting feed and crops from those fields may be […]