Source: https://www.delawareonline.com/, December 17, 2019 By: Maddy Lauria One of southern Delaware’s largest employers has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars in fines and penalties for breaking environmental laws at two of its downstate chicken plants, state officials announced late Monday. Mountaire Farms operates poultry plants along the Eastern Shore and elsewhere in the […]

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/, December 16, 2019 By: Hannah Rappleye, David Douglas and Anne Thompson Hope Grosse and Joanne Stanton have fond memories of the childhood they shared in the Philadelphia suburbs. They spent their days outside playing football, riding bikes and — when the Blue Angels came to town — they watched the skies. For kids […]

Source: https://www.wkbw.com/, December 16, 2019 By: Ali Touhey Five Amherst Central High School teachers are suing a local contractor after they claim they got sick after being exposed to toxic substances at school. The group, which is prohibited by state law from taking legal action against the school district, has filed suit against Turner Construction Co. in […]

Source: https://www.woodtv.com/, December 11, 2019 By: John Flesher One of the companies responsible for polluting an 80-mile stretch of river and floodplains in southwestern Michigan with toxic chemicals will pay at least $245.2 million to advance a cleanup effort that began more than 20 years ago, federal officials said Wednesday. NCR Corp. will fund the dredging of […]

Source: https://turnto10.com/, December 12, 2019 The land for a 7,500-seat soccer stadium at the center of $400 million redevelopment project in Rhode Island will require an environmental cleanup first. The project that could become the biggest redevelopment in Pawtucket history will have to overcome the pollution that has been caused by decades of gas manufacturing […]

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/, December 11, 2019 One of the companies responsible for polluting an 80-mile (129-kilometer) stretch of river and floodplains in southwestern Michigan with toxic chemicals will pay at least $245.2 million to advance a cleanup effort that began more than 20 years ago, federal officials said Wednesday. Read more.

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, December 12, 2019 By: Paula Gardner Costs of cleanup are climbing along with the number of contamination sites in Michigan, where PFAS made and packaged across the U.S. touches the drinking water of at least 1.9 million state residents. At the same time, chemical giant 3M is worth more than $96 billion. So who […]

Source: https://www.ctpost.com/, December 10, 2019 By: Rachel Scharf The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has warned the town that the controversial fill pile remains contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and is now telling officials if the chemicals aren’t cleaned up soon they could face penalties. The town said it removed all the PCBs […]

Source: https://www.enr.com/, December 2, 2019 By: Jeff Yoders Preston Todd Delph, 58, an employee of Gateway Concrete Forming in Miamisburg, Ohio, died after the seventh-floor of a mixed-use development on the corner of Fourth and Race streets in Cincinnati, collapsed on him November 25. Delph was standing on the sixth floor, below, where he was […]

Source: Detroit Free Press, December 11, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A former Rockford shoe factory that for decades used potentially health-harming PFAS compounds, causing widespread environmental contamination nearby, is nearing a $69.5 million settlement with the state of Michigan and Plainfield and Algoma townships. Under preliminary terms of the not-yet-finalized deal, Wolverine Worldwide would agree […]

Source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/, December 6, 2019 By: Erin Douglas State officials have identified a cancer cluster in a north Houston neighborhood near a site contaminated over many decades by railroad operations that treated wooden ties with the hazardous product creosote. Creosote, a preservative considered a probable cancer-causing substance, or carcinogen, by the Environmental Protection Agency, was […]

Source: https://fox59.com/, December 5, 2019 By: Courtney Crown Parents and homeowners filed two lawsuits in state and federal court this week against the Amphenol Corporation, Borgwarner Inc., Borgwarner PDS (Peru), Franklin Power Products Inc. and 400 Forsythe LLC. Those filing the federal case want a jury trial. In the federal class action lawsuit filed on […]