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 […]

Source: https://gazette.com/, December 6, 2019 By: Jakob Rodgers The hope for a long-sought revival of southeast Colorado Springs, including renovations of some of the city’s most notorious apartment complexes, has turned into a nightmare for a slew of tenants who’ve been ordered out of their homes because of asbestos contamination. The scope of the asbestos […]

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/, December 2019 New Enhancement Great American is now offering site-related pollution coverage to classes of business that can be higher exposure due to the nature of their operations. This would include but not be limited to: Chemical Manufacturing and Processing Plants Industrial Manufacturing Pulp and Paper Petroleum Refineries Large Petroleum Terminals Oil and […]

Source: https://windsorstar.com/, December 5, 2019 By: Dave Battagello A shoreline property in Detroit listed for decades by the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency as a contaminated site due to its use of uranium and other dangerous chemicals during manufacturing dating back to the 1940s has partially collapsed into the Detroit River. The […]

Source: The New York Times, December 4, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ For nearly a century, a copper smelter near Butte, Mont., processed ore and released lethal chemicals into the environment, including, according to court records, as much as 62 tons of arsenic and 10 tons of lead each day. In 1983, a few years after […]

Source: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/, December 3, 2019 By: Jim Therrien There is a “settlement conference” scheduled for Jan. 21 in the suit filed by town residents against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics over PFOA contamination, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a resolution is imminent. That also doesn’t mean the class-action suit filed in U.S. District Court in May 2016 […]

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 […]