Source: https://www.wastedive.com/, January 3, 2020 By: E.A. Crunden PFAS do not decompose in the environment and are linked to cancer and other health hazards. Unlike many other states grappling with PFAS contamination, Connecticut is largely reliant on incinerators and has no active MSW landfills. But, as evidenced by the new cleanup projects, the state is unable […]

Source: https://www.inquirer.com/, January 3, 2020 By: Justine McDaniel The Air Force will spend nearly $3 million to permanently stop PFAS-contaminated water from flowing off a former Montgomery County base into local waterways, officials said Friday. The agreement to fund the fix comes after more than two years of requests from local residents and officials to address the […]

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/, December 24, 2019 By: Bill Laitner It was no merry splash of holiday color when a bright-green liquid gushed from a freeway wall onto Interstate 696 in Michigan during Friday’s rush hour. The green gusher backed up thousands of motorists, requiring first a one-lane closure, then two lanes – likely to last at least through this week. […]

Source: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/, December 30, 2019 By: Jim Therrien Residents suing Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics over PFOA contamination around former ChemFab Corp. plants here will be allowed to seek the costs of medical monitoring for illnesses associated with the industrial chemical. Judge Geoffrey Crawford ruled Friday in U.S. District Court that the plaintiffs in a class-action suit […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, January 2, 2020 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Duke Energy Corp. has agreed to move 80 million tons of coal ash to lined landfills at six power plant sites in what state regulators are calling the biggest cleanup of its type in U.S. history. The compromise between Duke Energy, state regulators and […]

Source: https://www.enr.com/, January 2, 2020 The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama era, according to 2019 figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays. […]

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 21, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ More farmers have filed official complaints with the state of Illinois about the weedkiller dicamba this year than ever before. As the herbicide has risen to prominence across a sprawling footprint of U.S. farmland, so have complaints about its use, most claiming the pesticide, applied […]

Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), December 23, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A rash of recent lawsuits against 3M have intensified concerns that it could face massive legal and cleanup costs over a class of chemicals called PFAS. The Maplewood (Minnesota)-based industrial giant has already reached a historic $850 million pollution settlement with Minnesota. It settled […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, December 31, 2019 By: Amy O’Connor Jim Beam was fined $600,000 earlier this month after a July warehouse fire sent a nearly 23-mile (37-kilometer) plume of alcohol into the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, killing fish. The distiller agreed to the fine in a Dec. 6 order from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, January 2, 2020 A north Alabama school system has taken the first step to sue 3M Co. over claims that chemicals are leaking from a closed landfill that is on school system property. News outlets reported that Decatur’s school system filed notice last month saying it plans to sue over industrial toxins leaking […]

Source: http://www.startribune.com/, December 23, 2019 By: Dee DePass A rash of recent lawsuits against 3M have intensified concerns that it could face massive legal and cleanup costs over a class of chemicals called PFAS. The Maplewood-based industrial giant has already reached a historic $850 million pollution settlement with Minnesota. It settled a $35 million case […]

Source: https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/, December 21, 2019 By: Zachary Shevin The University has filed a $10.7 million lawsuit against firms involved in the design and construction of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. The Trustees of Princeton University are suing Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA), a New York-based firm that provided architectural services related to the […]