Source: https://patch.com, August 10,2 017 By: Marc Torrence The site, between First and Third streets and Third and Fourth avenues, will be investigated by the state’s Brownfield Cleanup Program. The Con Edison service yard in Gowanus will undergo a cleanup of toxic chemicals overseen by state officials, according to the New York Department of Environmental […]

Read here about a ruptured tank at an Ohio plant that spilled molten glass.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com, January 29, 2017 By: Alfonso Chardy The train is late out of the station. That’s because the station and the train have a size problem. Plans to open the new Amtrak station near Miami International Airport are behind schedule, Florida transportation officials say. Source of the problem: an engineering error in the construction […]

Source: http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com, August 8, 2017 By: Thomas Friestad Two weeks after a 75-gallon spill of home heating oil at the Pennwood Crossing mobile home community in Falls, contractors have not yet begun to clean up the contaminated soil. The community’s managers did, though, place and later remove kitty litter-esque chemical absorbent to soak up the oil […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, August 9, 2017 By: Ben Solis Ford Motor Company and its Livonia Transmission Plant are facing a second lawsuit regarding a chemical plume that has allegedly polluted groundwater, soil and created chemical vapors near homes in the city’s Alden Village neighborhood. A group of 130 homeowners is planning to file suit in Wayne County […]

Source: http://wivb.com, August 7, 2017 By: Ali Ingersoll The Town of West Seneca is moving forward, filing a civil lawsuit against the Burchfield designers — Louis Design Group and Nussbaumer & Clarke, inc. The town taking legal action after a consultant came in, looking at the Burchfield Nature and Art Center, determining a man made […]

Source: http://www.roanoke.com, August 7, 2017 By: Laurence Hammack State regulators have cited a fuel distributor for an underground gas leak at a Grandin Road convenience store that caused the evacuation of about 15 homes in October. Conny Oil Inc. of Roanoke will pay a fine of $19,425 as part of an agreement with the Virginia […]

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com, August 8, 2017 By: Michael Hawthorne Federal environmental regulators are cracking down on a Southeast Side company after finding high levels of brain-damaging manganese in a low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood. Air quality monitors posted around the S.H. Bell Co. storage terminal recorded violations of federal health standards during nearly 40 percent of the […]

Source: Detroit Free Press, August 5, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Health officials across the state are trying to determine what’s causing a 143% increase in cases of Legionnaires’ disease, a respiratory infection that can be deadly, especially for people with weak immune systems. “In the warm months, there is an increase in Legionnaires’,” said Jennifer […]

Read here about almost $400 million in environmental lawsuits that DuPont has agreed to settle.

A state agency says their plan meets federal standards Young children play in the back yard under the shade of an avocado tree. The kids dig holes while their grandfather makes homemade guacamole. It’s a scene that’s played out at the Mariz family home in Maywood for years. But no more. “They found lead throughout […]

Source: http://www.dailyjournal.net, August 6, 2017 By: Annie Goeller In the coming months, crews will begin removing truckloads of soil from a downtown Franklin property, with the goal of cleaning up contamination left behind by a former manufactured gas plant. Duke Energy is doing the work, which will be similar to another remediation project on Home […]