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 […]

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 […]