Source: http://www.bizjournals.com, June 13, 2017 By: John Downey Insurance companies sued by Duke Energy to recover $1 billion-plus in coal-ash contamination costs deny the claims are covered, alleging the Charlotte-based utility company elected to dispose of ash in ways it knew threatened groundwater. “Duke’s ash ponds were built without any provision to prevent the contaminants […]

Source: https://www.dnainfo.com, June 14, 2017 By: Amy Langfield NYC Parks officials need more time — and more money — to clean up the five most contaminated ballfields in Red Hook, community members were told Tuesday night. The city-financed cleanup was previously estimated at $105 million and was expected to be completed by a rolling series […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 13, 2017 Posted: http://www.advisen.com A federal judge has ruled that two insurance companies are required to cover any potential financial losses tied to a lawsuit against the Butler Area School District surrounding lead-tainted drinking water that came from a well at Summit Elementary School. U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab ruled […]

Source: Watertown Daily Times (NY), June 12, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Health officials last week warned of the lurking dangers that Legionnaires’ disease can pose to the water systems of hospitals and other health care facilities. In a recent report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed more than 2,800 cases of Legionnaires’ disease […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, June 13, 2017 By: Mr Van Hilderbrand Jr and Marian C. Hwang Posted on: http://www.advisen.com When Scott Pruitt took over the post as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he made it clear that one of his top priorities was to expedite cleanups at contaminated sites across the […]

Source: https://www.eenews.net, June 12, 2017 By: Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder Lurking under the surface of the lower 8.3 miles of New Jersey’s Passaic River are blue crabs, fish and tens of thousands of pounds of cancer-causing contaminants. The Passaic is one of the nation’s most polluted rivers. And it’s expected to see one of the costliest cleanups […]

Source: Canton Repository (OH), June 7, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A north-side neighborhood should be a degree safer as federal environmental officials remove hazardous materials from a neglected former industrial site in the 600 block of N. Union Avenue. The cleanup at the former Crest Rubber plant is under authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection […]

Source: UPI Top Stories, June 10, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Two recent guests at Las Vegas’ Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino contracted Legionnaires’ disease, health officials said. The guests who contracted the lung infection stayed separately in March and April at the 2,522-room hotel, the Southern Nevada Health District said Friday. The health district and […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, June 8, 2017 Beginning January 1, 2018, Missouri’s Underground and Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tanks laws will shift environmental liability from the “owner or operator of one or more petroleum storage tanks” to the “current legal owner of the site” where aboveground or underground storage tanks were taken out of use by December 31, […]

Source: http://losangeles.cbslocal.com, June 7, 2017 The Exide battery-recycling plant has been closed for two years. But many of the millions of dollars set aside to clean up the contaminated land around 20,000 homes has still not been spent. CBS2’s Randy Paige reports homeowners are beyond frustrated. LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis is concerned people moving […]

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk, April 21, 2014 By: James Nye New York City authorities and 2,500 Red Cross members prepared for the Citigroup Center to come crashing down on Manhattan in the summer of 1978 A catastrophic design flaw was uncovered when an architecture student phoned the building’s chief engineer He discovered that the building could not […]

Source: http://www.27east.com, June 7, 2017 By: Erin McKinley Unlike the tainted groundwater that continues to slowly make is way south to Moriches Bay, new information regarding the swath of contamination—often referred to as the Speonk Solvent Plume—has come to a standstill. A recently released 118-page monitoring report completed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation […]