Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, November 13, 2019 Researchers are uncertain about the environmental impact of toxic chemicals used to extinguish a three-day blaze at a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility after some leaked into a busy commercial waterway. The fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility in Deer Park began in a naphtha tank March 17, igniting other tanks at […]

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/, November 11, 2019 By: Ryan Blethen Seattle Children’s has closed three of its operating rooms because of the same fungus that forced the shutdown of all the hospital’s operating rooms earlier this year. The hospital is also looking into two new infections caused by the Aspergillus mold. Read more.

Source: https://www.lexology.com, November 7, 2019 By: Karen A. Cullinane, Goldberg Segalla LLP Recent utility tests of drinking water on President Trump’s golf property in Bedminster, New Jersey, revealed, for the third time this year, the presence of perflurooctanoic acid (PFOA), which is one of the more common PFAS compounds. A lab retained by the New […]

Source: https://vtdigger.org/, November 4, 2019 By: Elizabeth Gribkoff State environmental officials are looking to remediate contamination from a dry cleaning chemical found in elevated levels in 14 Burlington homes before winter. At a joint fiscal committee meeting on Monday, lawmakers approved a request from the Department of Environmental Conservation to spend up to $150,000 from […]

Source: https://thepressgroup.net/, November 8, 2019 By: Michael Olohan/span> A two-story office building built on the site of a former dry cleaner at 137 Broadway was knocked down recently as the first step in a long-term site remediation plan put into motion by the State Department of Environmental Protection. “It’s PCE (perchlorethylene) contamination in shallow ground […]

Source: https://chemicalcitypaper.com, November 11, 2019 Under a proposed settlement announced by the United States, the State of Michigan and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, The Dow Chemical Company will implement and fund an estimated $77 million in natural resource restoration projects intended to compensate the public for injuries to natural resources caused by the release of hazardous […]

Source: https://www.bossynews.com, November 11, 2019 By: Shahina Khatun Berkley Construction Professional is a division of the Berkley Alliance Managers. Berkley Construction Professional has introduced a Faulty Workmanship Liability coverage which fits consecutively with ISO CGL (Commercial General Liability) policy related to the property damage which has arisen from the faulty workmanship. This Faulty Workmanship Liability […]

Source: https://www.waste360.com, November 8, 2019 As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to help communities address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the PFAS Action Plan, the agency is releasing the Systematic Review Protocol for five PFAS toxicity assessments for a 45-day public comment period. The assessments are being developed under the Integrated Risk Information […]

Source: https://www.thecrimson.com/, November 8, 2019 By: Delano R. Franklin and Samuel W. Zwickel Harvard administrators relocated several Dunster House affiliates into temporary accommodations after discovering an outbreak of mold in September, according to several affected students. Kazi Tasnim ’22, who lives in Dunster, said House administrators moved residents of two separate suites to “emergency singles” […]

Source: https://abc7ny.com/, November 7, 2019 Concerned parents of students at a middle school on Long Island are held a sickout Thursday after ongoing reports about foul odors. Northport Middle School has been the repeated focus of inquiries related to air quality and the improper storage and disposal of potential contaminants. Read more.

Source: https://pamplinmedia.com/, November 8, 2019 By: Darryl Swan The St. Helens School District is suing a company it had hired to oversee asbestos abatement at the St. Helens Middle School in 2009 and again in 2018, alleging the company failed to successfully complete its work despite signing a certification to that effect. As a result, […]

Source: https://www.unionleader.com/, November 7, 2019 By: Kimberly Houghton The Saint-Gobain contamination zone now under investigation by the state has more than quadrupled in size. With newer, more stringent state standards in place for perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, thousands of additional private wells in the region will need to be tested for contamination, according to officials. […]