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 […]

Source: http://www.wjhg.com, February 19, 2018 By: Jennifer Holton It’s a troubling claim— a recently released report from ProPublica.org is pointing the finger at Tyndall Air Force Base for decades of procrastination involving pollution at more than 100 sites. One includes the base’s elementary school. Years before it was an Air Force base, part of Tyndall’s […]

Source: https://www.news5cleveland.com, February 19, 2018 By: Jordan Vandenberge Fluorescent Recycling Inc., a Cleveland-area recycling company, continued to defy state and local orders for years by illegally housing millions of mercury-laden fluorescent light bulbs, according to records obtained by News 5. The building where Fluorescent Recycling once operated, a massive industrial building that borders Neville and […]

Source: http://www.roanoke.com, February 17, 2018 By: Laurence Hammack A construction company hired to build the Mountain Valley Pipeline worked on three similar projects that were cited by environmental regulators, who found mountainsides turned to muddy slopes and streams clogged with sediment. The three developers of the natural gas pipelines, two in West Virginia and one […]

Source: http://wwlp.com, February 16, 2018 By: Ciara Speller City of Westfield suing manufacturers of firefighting foam alleged to have contaminated water The City of Westfield is seeking millions of dollars from manufacturers that produced firefighting foam that allegedly contaminated part of the city’s water supply.A $50 million lawsuit was filed by the City of Westfield […]

Source: https://www.postandcourier.com, February 19, 2018 By: Bo Peterson Oily sludge still oozes into containment wells across the street from the South Carolina Aquarium — at volumes ranging from 50 to 400 gallons per month. The soil under the former coal tar gasification plant continues to bleed toxins in the ground, long after the contamination was […]

Source: https://www.twincities.com, February 11, 2018 By: Bob Shaw Call it the $5 billion Teflon trial — Minnesota’s biggest environmental lawsuit ever. When the trial of the State of Minnesota vs. 3M Co. starts Feb. 20, it will pit the state against what may be its most-loved company. The state attorney general will be taking on a […]

Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH), February 9, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine has filed suit against chemical company DuPont, alleging it released toxic perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) or C8, for decades from its Washington Works plant on the Ohio River — despite knowing potential health and environmental risks. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, calls […]