The Huntsville Housing Authority found high levels of radioactive gas inside more than 60 public housing units last fall but never told the tenants they were breathing cancer-causing radon. Residents of Butler Terrace Addition knew nothing until reporters from AL.com and its affiliate, The Oregonian/OregonLive, made contact with some of them last week. Read more.…

A second person has died in Washington state and five more people have tested positive with the novel coronavirus, health officials said Sunday. Four of the new cases, including the second death, are among residents of a long-term nursing facility where officials have been investigating a possible outbreak of coronavirus. Read more.…

Robin Andrews of Pedricktown, New Jersey, has been fighting an autoimmune disease and thyroid condition for the past three years, suffering severe dental problems, hair loss and other symptoms. All, she believes, are the result of exposure to drinking water tainted by a group of chemicals called PFAS, used widely for decades in products like […]

Two more wells near Dover Air Force Base have been found to have possible high levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), dangerous chemicals which are contained in firefighting foam. The U.S. Air Force and Dover Air Force Base have notified Delaware’s Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) that preliminary results […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently reached settlements with three Massachusetts construction companies, which ensures they will come into compliance with stormwater regulations to reduce pollution from runoff. Under the settlements, the three companies will also pay fines and follow the terms of their permits for discharging stormwater. Read more.…

Congressman Dan Kildee announced that the Air Force will allocate $13.5 million to address PFAs around a former Air Force Base in Oscoda. The funding comes from the $60 million that congress recently provided the Department of Defense to spend to address PFAs contamination at decommissioned bases around the country. Last month, a group of Michigan […]

Wolverine World Wide says it agreed to a $113 million settlement to address water contamination claims stemming from previous waste management practices at several of its Michigan facilities. Those costs will be partially offset by a $55 million contribution Wolverine is set to receive from 3M, whose chemicals were at the core of the legal claims. […]

Adding to its $1.4 billion already spent on cleaning up former mining sites near Butte, Montana, Atlantic Richfield Company agreed Tuesday to pay another $28 million for mining cleanup costs in Anaconda, Montana. Anaconda is just 25 miles from Butte, which for over a century has been billed as “The Richest Hill on Earth” for […]

For the first time since Minnesota reached its historic $850 million settlement with 3M Co. over the toxic “forever chemicals” polluting ground­water in the east metro, the state has put dollar estimates on the potential fixes being developed. The $700 million available to spend on cleaning drinking water and restoring damaged natural resources does not […]

Citizens in the City of Juliette are gearing up for a fight over access to clean water. They believe that coal ash from Georgia Power’s Plant Scherer has contaminated their groundwater supply and have now taken their battle to lawmakers at the State Capitol. Read more.…

For decades, financially struggling companies abandoned polluted areas, leaving others to foot the cleanup bill. Today, things are different, US chemical makers say. They point to modern environmental practices superimposed on years of adhering to pollution-control laws to make the case that they have cleaned up their act. The Trump administration agrees with these companies. […]

A group that represents more than 31,000 rural utility systems is the latest to sue 3M, DuPont, Chemours and others over costs to clean up “forever” chemicals contained in the companies’ firefighting foam products from local groundwater. The National Rural Water Association and city of Millington, Tennessee, sued DuPont de Nemours Inc., The Chemours Co., 3M Co. and […]