Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 7, 2016 By: William J. Peters, Gordon & Rees LLP The California Supreme Court has ruled that premises owners and employers owed a duty to the employee’s household to prevent take-home exposure to asbestos. For example, claims that the plaintiff was exposed when a family member came home with asbestos fibers on […]

Source: http://www.modeldmedia.com, December 12, 2016 By: Nina Ignaczak Wayne State University urban geology professor Jeffrey Howard knows Detroit dirt. As a teacher and researcher, he’s been digging into Detroit’s vacant land and industrial sites over the last several decades in an effort to better understand and classify the city’s soils, many of which are disturbed […]

Source: http://patersontimes.com, December 13, 2016 By: Jayed Rahman The former environmental occupational health and safety officer for the Paterson Public Schools claims the state-operated district improperly handled asbestos and mold removal at a number schools buildings in a lawsuit filed in New Jersey Superior Court. Brenda Zemo, who worked at the district over the past […]

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com, December 8, 2016 By: Melia Robinson Millennium Tower, a $350 million skyscraper completed in 2008, has sunk 16 inches and tilted two inches since it opened. Now San Francisco’s very own “leaning tower” is in the middle of a battle between the building’s developers, residents, and city officials over who’s at fault. The fight’s far from […]

Source: https://www.ucdavis.edu, December 1, 2016 By: Andy Fell Soil at the site of the new large lecture hall on California Avenue has been found to contain naturally occurring asbestos. Contractors and UC Davis employees are carrying out air monitoring around the site and preparing to remove soil for appropriate disposal. Most of the work will […]

Source: https://www.greenbiz.com, November 29, 2016 By: John Lombardo America’s history of industrial environmental impact is catching up with our aging water infrastructure. Increasingly, chemicals used for everything from pipeline protection to firefighting are appearing in alarming concentrations in the drinking water that comes from taps in millions of American homes. Hexavalent chromium and lead Hexavalent […]

Source: http://triblive.com, December 2, 2016 By: Mary Ann Thomas More than 50 Cheswick residents who crammed into a borough meeting room Thursday were satisfied with the state’s plan to cap radioactive contamination at a commercial site that stood near Cheswick Avenue and Pittsburgh Street. In 2010, a state Department of Environmental Protection researcher found news […]

Source: https://www.usgs.gov, September 14, 2016 Mercury contamination is widespread, at various levels across western North America in air, soil, sediment, plants, fish and wildlife. An international team of scientists led by the U.S. Geological Survey, recently documented widespread mercury contamination in air, soil, sediment, plants, fish, and wildlife at various levels across western North America. […]

Source: http://www.seacoastonline.com, December 1, 2016 By: Jeff McMenemy A test of surface water taken from Breakfast Hill in Greenland showed levels of PFCs nearly three times the permanent lifetime health advisory level for drinking water. The Conservation Law Foundation conducted the tests on three samples taken from surface water around the Coakley landfill after state […]

Source: http://norcalrecord.com, December 8, 2016 By: Kristin Danley-Greiner A trial date has been set for the end of January in an insurance coverage case to determine who is responsible for water and mold damage sustained in a condominium. Saarman Construction Ltd. was hired by a homeowners association to complete repairs on the exterior of a […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, December 8, 2016 By: Andrew Dodson Bay City officials have applied for a $200,000 Brownfield Cleanup Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address contamination issues at the former Surath Scrap Yard, a piece of property they say could be home to Bay City’s next big development. A year ago, the Bay […]

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com, December 8, 2016 By: Joe Rubin “This just feels like a violation of the compact between government and the public to protect us.” Last April, residents of Sacramento’s working-class Mangan Park neighborhood were invited by city officials to a meeting to discuss a health scare involving the presence of lead particulate in their […]