Source: https://www.philly.com, April 29, 2019 By: Frank Kummer A Pennsylvania environmental board has essentially scrapped two state actions that would have paved the way for developer Brian O’Neill to build housing on a contaminated Chester County site. The ruling on Friday appears to be a major setback for Constitution Drive Partners, a limited partnership involving […]

Source: http://www.newsminer.com, April 30, 2019 By: Sam Friedman The Fairbanks city government announced Monday that it has filed a lawsuit against two companies whose products polluted groundwater around the city’s fire training center. The suit seeks at least $4.3 million from manufactures to recoup costs the city has spent cleaning up the site and providing clean drinking […]

Source: https://wfpl.org, April 26, 2019 By: Ryan Van Velzer One of the oldest federally-recognized hazardous waste sites is right here in Louisville. And more than 20 years after the government declared it was no longer a top priority, the site is still contaminating groundwater flowing into the Ohio River, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. […]

Source: https://ny.curbed.com, April 26, 2019 By: Caroline Spivack A privately-owned East Fourth Street building is the latest in the area where tenants suffered lead exposure An East Village apartment building owned by a Hollywood accountant tested for abnormally high levels of lead, after renovations caused dust to coat spaces throughout the six-story building—exposing tenants, including […]

Source: https://www.herald-dispatch.com, April 24, 2019 A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over the 2015 landslide that collapsed a runway safety overrun at Yeager Airport. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Yeager officials say the airport was awarded $14.8 million in the settlement that ends all legal wrangling stemming from the collapse. Of that, about $6 […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, April 24, 2019 By: Kim Slowey Dive Brief: The University of Akron in Ohio is suing design-build contractor HNTB Ohioand others who participated in the construction of InfoCision Stadium–Summa Field, alleging it has had to pay $1 million to fix “catastrophic” construction defects plaguing the 10-year-old football stadium. Other defendants include construction manager Welty Building Co., […]

Source: https://www.freep.com, April 25, 2019 By: Keith Matheny These once-common chemicals are linked to cancer and a host of other ailments. And they may be tainting more than 11,000 sites around Michigan. Sandy Wynn-Stelt knows it’s too late for herself. The chemicals she drank for perhaps 25 years out of her tap — the ones that […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com, April 23, 2019 By: Garret Ellison In a class action lawsuit filing, Georgia-Pacific is pointing the finger at Michigan regulators and several businesses it says may be at fault for the Parchment water contamination emergency, which affected 3,000 people and has since forced the suburban city to hand its municipal system over to neighboring […]

Source: https://www.ehstoday.com, April 23, 2019 By: David L. Elkind, Anderson Kill P.C. Almost any manufacturer can face environmental liability. The liability may stem from the nature of the product being manufactured, but it also may derive from chemicals used to clean the manufacturing equipment, changes made to the product after it leaves the manufacturer’s hands—or, […]

Source: https://www.timesunion.com, April 19, 2019 By: Brian Nearing Toxic chemicals will be dug out of two vacant former dry cleaners sites in Schenectady and Watervliet, under plans announced by the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The property around the former Admiral Cleaners, 617 19th St., Watervliet, and the former Kenwood Cleaners, 445 Duane Ave., Schenectady, […]

Source: https://www.detroitnews.com, April 18, 2019 By: Leonard N. Fleming Some of the nation’s high-profile environmental law firms, along with Michigan-based ones, are waging legal battles related to PFAS contamination in the state after decades of waste dumping by a popular shoe manufacturer that has seeped into private wells. The civil lawsuits over per- and polyfluoroalkyl […]

Source: https://www.nola.com, April 22, 2019 A broken flange on a pipe is believed to be the cause of a spill of 3,600 gallons of sulfuric acid that occurred at the Cornerstone Chemical Co.facility at Waggaman on April 11, according to a state environmental official. The spill was reported by Cornerstone to both the Coast Guard National […]