Source: http://www.seattletimes.com, September 19, 2016 By: JoNel Aleccia Bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease have been detected in University of Washington Medical Center devices used to heat and cool patients during heart surgery, the same type of machines linked to different types of deadly outbreaks in other hospitals. Three so-called heater-cooler units, devices used during surgery […]

Source: http://www.kansas.com, September 13,2 016 By: Gabriella Dunn Helen and Bob Harrison have lived in their west Wichita home for 36 years and are now finding out that they’ve been drinking, cooking, bathing and washing their clothes in water contaminated with dry cleaning chemicals. They don’t know how long their well water has been contaminated […]

Source: http://www.nbc-2.com, August 12, 2016 By: David Hodges Robert Wagner wishes someone had told him that his home was likely riddled with defects and that his walls were rotting away from the inside. And told him that the builder, Beazer Homes, wasn’t going to do the work unless he told them to. “By the time […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 9, 2016 By: Heidi Hudson Raschke, Carlton Fields A recent article in the Sports section of The Miami Herald read “Shooting coach helps Winslow.” Perhaps, but it probably didn’t help the coach much. The admonition to “eat every carrot and pea on your plate” undoubtedly elicits laughs from the children to whom […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, September 13, 2016 by: Heidi Hudson Raschke, Carlton Fields A recent article in the Sports section of The Miami Herald read “Shooting coach helps Winslow.” Perhaps, but it probably didn’t help the coach much. The admonition to “eat every carrot and pea on your plate” undoubtedly elicits laughs from the children to whom […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, September 12, 2016 By: Jonathan D. Salant Just months after adding a Vineland location to the list of federal Superfund sites, the Environmental Protection Agency announced an $8.7 million plan to clean up contaminated soil at 57 nearby homes. The plan announced Monday called for removing about 21,000 cubic yards of soil contaminated by arsenic and lead from the now-defunct […]

Source: http://www.app.com, September 9, 2016 By: Jean Mikle A public hearing is scheduled for Monday on a controversial plan to build more than 300 townhouse and apartment units at the site of the borough’s old landfill. Borough Administrator Joseph Kostecki said the Borough Council is expected to vote Monday on a redevelopment ordinance necessary to […]

Source: Dayton Daily News (OH), September 12, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A fire suppressant foam linked to the shutdown of two drinking water wells at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base injured a firefighter during a training incident and the Defense Department has launched an investigation to determine how widespread the problem is across the nation. The […]

Source: http://www.newyorklawjournal.com, September 2, 2016 By: Jason Grant An insurance company does not have to indemnify Keyspan Gas East Corp.’s environmental cleanup losses connected to periods of time when the relevant insurance was not available in the marketplace, a New York appeals court has found. In an issue of first impression in the state’s appellate […]

Source: http://legalnewsline.com, September 9, 2016 By: Mark Iandolo Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) have announced a lawsuit against gasoline manufacturers in order to recover expenses associated with the cleanup of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE). “The state has incurred significant costs to […]

Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com, September 7, 2016 By: John Siciliano The Environmental Protection Agency is setting its sights on dry cleaners as part its new list of 18 contaminated cleanup sites. The EPA announced Wednesday that it is adding 10 waste sites under its Superfund program’s National Priorities List, which is set up to deal with long-term […]

Source: http://www.thestarpress.com, September 12, 2016 By: Seth Slabaugh A junk yard and one of the nation’s largest insurance companies continue to blame each other for never-ending water pollution. During five years of court battles with Hartford Iron & Metal, Valley Forge Insurance has spent millions of dollars in a seemingly inept attempt to stop PCB-contaminated storm water from illegally draining […]