Source: Seattle Times, December 3, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ The six patients came from as far as Alaska. They ranged in age from a 17-year-old girl to a 2-month-old boy. Binding them together: harm they endured after a stay at Seattle Children’s hospital, according to three lawsuits filed Monday. The complaints against Children’s begin to […]

Source: https://sanjosespotlight.com/, December 2, 2019 By: Elizabeth Mendez As a famous actor took center stage during a Capitol Hill hearing last month to demand stricter regulations of ‘forever chemicals’ in water, a longtime San Jose water company revealed that it has tested positive for those contaminants. The news comes as California water officials this year began […]

Source: https://www.kuow.org/, December 2, 2019 By: Kate Walters Seattle Children’s hospital is facing lawsuits over mold-related deaths and infections. One claim filed Monday on behalf of four children is seeking class action status. The suit claims all four children were infected with Aspergillus mold while they were patients at the hospital. Three have since died. […]

Source: https://www.cnn.com/, November 27, 2019 By: Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton An explosion rocked a chemical plant early Wednesday in Texas, causing extensive damage across the small city of Port Neches and leaving at least three employees injured. A chemical fire continues to burn at the site, and a mandatory evacuation order has been issued […]

Source: https://buckrail.com/, November 23, 2019>/span> Chevron Corporation is fielding a complaint filed by both The State of Wyoming and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). According to an Oil City News report, a DEQ announcement shared November 22 claims Chevron to have violated the “Wyoming Environmental Quality Act involving the remediation of environmental contamination at […]

Source: https://wjla.com/, November 25, 2019 By: Joce Sterman and Alex Brauer Military bases across the country are dealing with contamination to their drinking and groundwater as a result of the use of toxic firefighting foam with known links to cancer and other health problems. The cost, according to service members who have lived on these […]

Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), November 23, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will make $4.8 million available to study the impact of potentially dangerous forever chemicals produced and used by companies such as 3M on farms and rural communities. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, do not break down in […]

Source: Daily Southtown (Chicago, IL), November 24, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Cases of Legionnaires’ disease reached a record high in 2018 – a more than eightfold increase since the numbers began to climb nearly two decades ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported 9,933 cases in 2018 of Legionellosis, which includes both […]

Source: The Washington Post, November 21, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ The Environmental Protection Agency weakened a rule Thursday governing how companies store dangerous chemicals. The standards were enacted under the Obama administration in the wake of a 2013 explosion in West, Tex., that killed 15 people, including 12 first-responders. Under the new standards, companies will […]

Source: https://crosscut.com/, November 21, 2019 By: Kevin Knodell Melissa Godoy had spent much of her life in military housing, living in bases around the country for a decade without issue. Then she and her husband, an Army combat engineer, came to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in July 2018. She recalled that the home her family moved into […]

Source: November 21, 2019 By: Charles E. Fombrun and Freddy X. Munoz Design professionals such as architects and engineers are exposed to significant risk and potential liability for errors and omissions in their designs and other work on construction projects. In addition to potential up-front design errors, many professionals participate in project administration, which includes […]

Source: https://q13fox.com/, November 20, 2019 By: Hana Kim Earlier this week, Seattle Children’s CEO Jeff Sperring made no excuses for the deadly mold problem at his hospital. They now believe that complications from Aspergillus mold has killed six patients since 2001. “Looking back, we should have made the connections sooner. Simply put, we failed,” Sperring […]