Source: https://www.greatlakesnow.org/, September 13, 2019 For more than 20 years, the eastern Michigan town of Lapeer sent leftover sludge from its sewage treatment plant to area farms, supplying them with high-quality, free fertilizer while avoiding the expense of disposal elsewhere. But state inspectors ordered a halt to the practice in 2017 after learning the material […]

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/, July 24, 2020 By: Kevin Miller Milk from a Central Maine dairy farm contained levels of a harmful “forever chemical” that were 60 to 150 times higher than health standards, triggering a state investigation and raising new concerns about PFAS contamination on farms. The levels of contamination in the farm’s milk are the […]

Source: ttps://www.epa.gov, August 20, 2020 Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $4.8 million in research funding to three institutions to better understand the potential impacts of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on water quality and availability in rural communities and agricultural operations across the United States. These grant awards build on the agency’s […]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, November 30, 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 […]

Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/, December 1, 2020 By: David Abel For two decades, state environmental officials have used a controversial pesticide to kill mosquitoes in Massachusetts, spraying millions of acres from the air and ground to reduce the spread of Eastern equine encephalitis. Now, after years of criticism from environmental advocates who have long raised health concerns […]

Source: https://www.sanjoseinside.com/, December 1, 2020 By: Rachel Becker In the weeks before the coronavirus began tearing through California, the city of Commerce made an expensive decision: it shut down part of its water supply. Like nearly 150 other public water systems in California, the small city on the outskirts of Los Angeles had detected “forever chemicals” […]

Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/, November 23, 2020 PFAS compounds are not the first emerging contaminants to be addressed by environmental agencies, scientists, regulated entities, engineering consultants and lawyers. Chlorinated solvents, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury, and other organic and inorganic substances have at one point or another been considered “emerging” from scientific and regulatory perspectives. As a general matter, all […]

Source: https://riverheadlocal.com/, November 21, 2020 By: Denise Civiletti Data released by the Navy this week for the first time show significant detections of toxic PFAS chemicals at the southern border of the former aerospace manufacturing site. Detection of the chemicals at the southern boundary of the site is significant, because it supports the position of […]

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/, November 20, 2020 By: Freddie Wilkinson For adventures the world over, Mount Everest is an unforgettable sight—a regal plume of snow blows off its summit ridge as ice trails down its flank. But take a closer look at this stunning vista, as one team of climate scientists is doing, and you’ll start to […]

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/, November 19, 2020 By: Molly Shelly State officials told the Fairfield Town Council on Wednesday that 28 more wells have been tested, with 12 exceeding the EPA’s limits for “forever chemicals,” a collection of strongly bonded compounds that can have adverse effects on health. Penny Harkins, who lives on Currier Road and whose […]

Source: https://www.13newsnow.com/, November 19, 2020 An appeals court has upheld a 2018 jury verdict that led to monetary awards for neighbors of an eastern North Carolina industrial hog operation for its smells and noise. Thursday’s ruling by a panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected calls for a new trial by Smithfield […]

Source: https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/, November 18, 2020 By: Josh LaBella Another $1.69 million has been approved to address a number of contaminated sites throughout town, bringing the total to more than $3 million so far. The selectmen and finance board unanimously approved the $1.69 million in bonds to clean up seven sites, most of which are connected […]