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 […]

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 […]