Source: https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/, December 17, 2019 By: Hannah Shirley TC Energy has not yet been fined for the Keystone Pipeline oil spill outside Edinburg in October, but it will be, a North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality official said. The Oct. 29 Keystone Pipeline spill released about 383,000 gallons of crude oil and is estimated to […]
Source: Alaska Dispatch News, December 17, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that BP Exploration Alaska has agreed to pay a $125,100 penalty related to violations of its federal hazardous waste permit for activities on Alaska’s North Slope. BP, a major Alaska oil producer that’s asking regulators to approve the $5.6 […]
Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/, December 12, 2019 By: Kelsey Hammon Three out of 18 residential wells tested this fall in Boulder Heights showed elevated levels of PFAS, also known as fluorochemicals, according to results released last week by Boulder County Public Health. Homeowners were prompted to have their water examined in September after a public meeting took […]
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 […]
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