Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com, June 23, 2017 By: Jessica Anderson The cleanup in the aftermath of Tuesday’s explosion of an underground steam pipe downtown has largely been completed, but officials said work still must be done before repairs on the system can begin. Crews have worked since Tuesday to clean buildings and parking lots around the explosion […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, June 27, 2017 By: Garret Ellison A major Michigan Superfund site is getting nearly $10 million from the Environmental Protection Agency this year to start cleaning up the toxic leftovers from an infamous chemical plant that made now-banned pesticides and fire retardants. The EPA will spend $9.7 million to begin work in a polluted field along […]

Source: http://www.wkyc.com, June 26, 2017 By: Carly Flynn Morgan The Coast Guard and Environmental Protection Agency are coordinating the clean-up of a spill of up to 5,000 gallons of rust proofing material from the Ford Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake, some of which discharged into Lake Erie. Ford Motor Company and the Avon Lake […]

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com, June 26, 2017 Some 60,000 Wilmington, N.C., residents get their drinking water from the Cape Fear River. DuPont and its spinoff company Chemours manufacture chemicals at a plant upstream from the city. The plant is situated on a 2,100-acre property on the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville. It is there where a chemical […]

Source: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com, June 25, 2017 By: Brooks Johnson A homeowners association is suing the developer, builder and manager of the Superior Vista condominiums, among others, claiming the Mesaba Avenue complex was not properly built and ought to be repaired under warranty. “Many areas of the building were not built to applicable building code, industry standard […]

Source: http://www.journalgazette.net, June 25, 2017 By: Catherine Traywick Energy Transfer Partners is making a mess of its biggest project since the Dakota Access pipeline. Construction of the $4.2 billion Rover natural gas line has caused seven industrial spills, polluted fragile Ohio wetlands and angered local farmers. The company owes $1.5 million in restitution after demolishing a […]

Source: http://www.nhregister.com, June 22, 2017 By: Luther Turmelle Work on the environmental cleanup of the defunct English Station power plant in the city’s Fair Haven section will begin in earnest next month as remediation crews start removing bags of asbestos from the property. The United Illuminating Co., which formerly owned the power plant and is […]

Source: http://www.myrecordjournal.com, June 22, 2017 By: Jesse Buchanan Final soil testing is underway at the site of a former factory destroyed by fire in 2003. The Town Council approved a $92,000 contract earlier this month with Arcadis, an environmental company, to conduct soil tests in preparation for cleanup work at the Beaton & Corbin property […]

Source: http://www.heraldsun.com, June 21, 2017 By: Virginia Bridges City officials think the substance that turned part of Ellerbee Creek an oily orange last week may have been due to a city contractor’s mistake. A city investigation found a city contractor improperly rerouted water meant to go to the city’s sanitary sewer system to a stormwater […]

Source: http://kxan.com, June 20, 2017 By: David Barer and Kylie McGivern About 120 city of Austin employees were exposed to asbestos during 2016 airport office renovations, despite some workers voicing concerns that the potentially dangerous building material could cause contamination during construction, a KXAN investigation has uncovered. The exposure happened during February and June 2016 […]

Source: https://www.nytimes.com, June 16, 2017 By: Sarah Maslin Nir One person is dead and six other people have been sickened in an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the city health department announced on Friday. The patients with the bacterial infection, which is typically contracted through contaminated water, fell ill […]

Source: http://www.courthousenews.com, June 13, 2017 By: Adam Klasfeld No longer protected by its deals with California prosecutors, BP and Shell must face another lawsuit alleging that its underground storage tanks continue to pollute Orange County’s groundwater with a toxic gasoline additive. The British and Dutch oil giants were named among the dozens of fossil-fuel companies […]