Source: https://www.dailybulletin.com/, September 10, 2021 By: Steve Scauzillo A federal jury awarded the city of Pomona $48 million in damages to be paid by a foreign corporation for contaminating its groundwater with a toxic chemical mixed with fertilizer and sold to citrus farmers for decades. On Sept. 7, the city won its case against the […]

Source: https://www.monroenews.com/, September 10, 2021 By: Blake Bacho Health officials will soon begin screening homes in the City of Flat Rock for benzene as part of the ongoing efforts to clean up a substantial fuel leak that has polluted a portion of the city’s sanitary sewer system. Kory Groetsch, the Michigan Department of Health and Human […]

Source: https://www.fox2detroit.com/, September 4, 2021 By: David Komer Ford Motor Company said in a statement it was responsible for the chemical vapors detected in Flat Rock this week, due to a  leak in a pipe that carries gasoline used to fuel vehicles built at the assembly plant. The gasoline leak was discovered Wednesday and now found to […]

Source: https://www.wickedlocal.com/, September 8 2021 By: Donna Whitehead The town of Easton has filed a lawsuit against chemical companies whose products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) the town alleges caused contamination of drinking water, according to a press release issued by the town. The companies include the 3M Company, Chemguard, Dupont and Tyco. Read […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, September 2, 2021 By: Bethan Moorcraft When Mary Ann Susavidge started working in environmental insurance 24-years-ago, one risk that was not top of mind for environmental underwriters was climate change and catastrophic weather. Oh, how things have changed. Read more.

Source: https://www.seacoastonline.com/, August 31, 2021 By: Patrick Cronin Four new civil lawsuits have been filed against the Sands Resort over the 2018 Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at Hampton Beach that caused the deaths of two people and sickened dozens more. The suits were filed last week in Rockingham Superior Court against the Sands Resort Management Co. and the […]

Source: https://www.news10.com/, August 31, 2021 By: Spencer Tracy A major environmental project to cleanup contamination near the Mohawk River in Cohoes will begin the first week of September. The state is taking action and neighbors are ready to see change. The site consists of a grass covered field, which is fenced and a wooded area. […]

Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/, September 1, 2021 By: John Flesher High levels of toxic, widely used “forever chemicals” contaminate groundwater around at least six military sites in the Great Lakes region, according to U.S. Department of Defense records that an environmental group released Tuesday. The Environmental Working Group said PFAS, an abbreviation for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, […]

Source: https://www.ack.net/, September 2, 2021 By: David Creed The Nantucket Airport Commission is suing 23 chemical companies, along with up to 20 so-called “Doe defendants” (identities unknown at this time) for harm done to airport property and the costs associated with investigating, remediating and monitoring groundwater wells contaminated with PFAS. “Defendants have caused great harm […]

Source: https://www.bayjournal.com/, August 30, 2021 By: Timothy B. Wheeler David Harris grew up on a farm next door to the Naval Research Laboratory – Chesapeake Bay Detachment. He recalls camping with his scout troop on the 168-acre base overlooking the Bay and drinking water from the small stream that flows from the Navy property onto his family’s […]

Source: https://www.unionleader.com/, August 27, 2021 by: Jason Schreiber A Hampton hotel is facing new lawsuits over a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak three years ago that killed two people and sickened dozens of others. Four additional suits were filed this week against Sands Resort Management Co. Inc. and its representatives by people who stayed at the hotel […]

Source: The Independent (UK), August 26, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A high-profile San Francisco development has already sunk $100 million extra dollars into shoring up its foundation as part of a lawsuit, but the building is still sinking. In May, construction crews began digging massive, 100-foot-deep holes lined with steel sleeves beneath the Millennium Tower […]