Source: Duluth News-Tribune (MN), July 26, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com County and state officials responded to a sulfuric acid spill at the Boise Paper mill in International Falls last week. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency reported Tuesday that it was notified last week that about 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of sulfuric acid had spilled onto […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, July 25, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Some days, Nicole Cottrell said, her driveway smells like a busy gas station. Other days, it reeks as if someone has poured lighter fluid onto a bonfire. To this day, the stench triggers an instant headache, leaving her dizzy and nauseous. Often, Cottrell said, her […]

Source: https://www.clickondetroit.com, July 25, 2017 By: Rod Meloni Residents worried about contamination from chemicals The state of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have settled a ground contamination case that Local 4 brought to viewers 18 months ago. It’s been dubbed the Boston Beacon Project, and it involves contamination at the Livonia transmission plant. While the […]

Source: http://www.thedenverchannel.com, July 25, 2017 By: Liz gelardi Cleanup has cost city more than $3M so far A legal battle is brewing over the cleanup of contaminated land in Boulder and over who should foot the bill. The City of Boulder is suing Xcel Energy in federal court in an attempt to recoup costs related […]

Source: http://www.thv11.com, June 15, 2017 Hare Wynn Newell & Newton, a law firm with offices in Little Rock and Fayetteville, announced today that it has reached a settlement on behalf of dozens of residents and homeowners in Mayflower adversely affected by the 2013 rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus Pipeline. The pipeline rupture on March […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 20. 2017 By: Diana A. Silva, Manko Gold Katcher & Fox Love Canal – the infamous neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York where large quantities of chemical waste was dumped, and which became the catalyst for enactment of the federal Superfund program – is still generating legal opinions, nearly 40 years after […]

Source: https://www.bna.com, July 20, 2017 By: Lars-Eric Hedberg General Electric will pay New York $13.5 million to resolve its potential liabilities at a contaminated upstate site, after the parties reached an agreement. Magistrate Judge Christian F. Hummel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York signed off on the consent decree […]

Source: https://www.bna.com, July 20, 2017 By: Peter Hayes A teacher and students at a Southern California elementary school presented enough exposure and causation evidence to proceed with claims stemming from a toxic plume that migrated from an adjacent industrial site, the Southern District of California ruled ( Trujillo v. Ametek, Inc. , 2017 BL 246482, […]

Source: https://sf.curbed.com, July 19, 2017 By: Adam Brinklow Can it finally be fixed? Millennium Tower, the tony but troubled downtown high-rise that made international headlines last year when the secret got out that it’s slowly sinking and tilting, returned to its customary place in the news late Tuesday when NBC Bay Area revealed that the […]

Source: http://michiganradio.org, July 18, 2017 By: Kaye Lafond When I arrive at Bethany Hawkins’ home, the first thing she does is offer me a glass of her well water. “Our water’s always been really good,” she says. But Hawkins’ well could have an expiration date. It’s an estimated 675 feet from the edge of a […]

Source: http://www.myrecordjournal.com, July 18, 2017 By: Matthew Zabierek A Hall Avenue company is working with an engineering firm to control soil contamination around abandoned underground oil tanks. A 2009 environmental assessment conducted at Times Microwave Systems, a division of Amphenol Corporation, found excessive amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil on the property at 358 Hall […]

Source: https://www.ecowatch.com, July 18, 2017 By: Kathiann M. Kowalski The Rover Pipeline project in Ohio faces continuing problems, with more spills of drilling mud, ongoing questions about diesel fuel contamination, and orders issued last week by both the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). “The significant thing that is […]