Source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com, November 14, 2017 By: Alex Stuckey More than two months after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Houston area, three wastewater treatment facilities in Harris County remain inoperable with more than $1 million in damages, as officials struggle to find solutions to get them back online. The heavily damaged Cedar Bayou Park Wastewater Treatment plant […]

Source: http://www.kallanishenergy.com, March 14, 2018 Three petroleum giants have agreed to pay the state of New Jersey $196.5 million to resolve their liability in a pollution case caused by a gasoline additive known as methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), Kallanish Energy reports. Sunoco has already paid New Jersey $64 million to resolve its liability for MTBE damages. BP […]

Source: http://www.njspotlight.com, March 13, 2018 By: Tom Johnson Natural-resources damage suit involves three oil companies who contaminated groundwater with potentially carcinogenic gasoline additive The Murphy administration yesterday said it has settled cases with three oil companies who have agreed to pay nearly $200 million for polluting water with a potential human carcinogen. Attorney General Gurbir […]

Source: https://dc.curbed.com, March 13, 2018 By: Michelle Goldchain Clark Construction’s lawsuit alleges that Perkins Eastman made significant errors and omissions in its design documents The first phase of the $2 billion, 24-acre mixed-use project in Washington, D.C.’s Southwest Waterfront, known as The Wharf, may be finished, but the general contractor still has a bone to pick […]

Source: https://signalscv.com, March 9, 2018 By: Perry Smith The cleanup of close to 1,000 acres of contaminated soil at Whittaker-Bermite is still on track to wrap up by year’s end, with just a dozen isolated pockets needing particular attention, according to the cleanup efforts’ engineers. “I am very happy to tell you that by the […]

Source: https://www.sfgate.com, March 8, 2018 California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley and other prosecutors announced today that a judge has ordered Home Depot USA to pay $27.84 million for unlawfully disposing hazardous wastes. The settlement, which was ordered by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman, also resolves allegations that […]

Read here about a tractor trailer accident in western Pennsylvania that involved a spill of the hydrochloric acid.

Source: https://www.newsday.com, March 5, 2018 By: Angelique D’Allessandro The Environmental Protection Agency is implementing a cleanup plan to decontaminate groundwater in old Roosevelt Field, officials said. The project is estimated to cost $13.5 million and was put into place after groundwater tested positive for potentially harmful chemicals, such as tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene. Both chemicals have […]

Source: https://www.paloaltoonline.com, March 1, 2018 By: Sue Dremann Stanford University officials have filed a federal lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Company and its successors Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., and Agilent Technologies for years of contamination of its property with hazardous PCBs and TCE, according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, February 27, 2018 By: Judy Greenwald A Pennsylvania state appeals court has affirmed a lower court ruling and held the Consolidated Rail Corp. is not entitled to pollution coverage under policies issued by a Berkshire Hathaway Group unit and Continental Insurance Co. The ruling by the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in Consolidated […]

Source: http://www.wcax.com, February 27, 2018 By: Taylor Young A Shelburne business owner is warning others after he says he unknowingly purchased property contaminated with PCE. “It’s just been challenging,” said Sean Ryan, the owner of Elegant Floors. From 1996 to 2000, a dry cleaning business occupied his building. Ryan has a black plastic bag taped […]

Source: Fayetteville Observer (NC), February 22, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Dozens of residents who live near a Bladen County plant that manufactures a potentially cancer causing compound filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the company and its predecessor. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by lawyers in Asheville and Dallas on behalf of […]