Source: The New Orleans Advocate, June 25, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com After sending investigators into the Denka Performance Elastomer plant for five days last year to find out why it was discharging troubling amounts of chloroprene into the air, the Environmental Protection Agency has found that the LaPlace chemical manufacturer potentially violated the Clean Air […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 26, 2017 By: Matthew Jeweler, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP The Flint, Mich., water crisis returned to the news recently as criminal charges were brought against additional government employees resulting from the crisis. Meanwhile, a federal court in Pennsylvania recently issued a ruling in an insurance case that, like Flint, related to […]

Source: http://www.courierpostonline.com, June 23, 2017 By: Carly Q. Romalino Homes could be evacuated as a neighborhood littered with bits of lead-contaminated car batteries becomes a construction zone for federal cleanup crews. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicated Thursday it will move forward with cleanup of the Tempo Development at Crown Point Road and Hessian Avenue in […]

Source: http://www.bereaonline.com, June 26, 2017 A $200,000 grant has been awarded for the environmental clean-up of the former Parker Seal plant in Berea. The Brownfields Program grant was secured from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the Kentucky River Foothills Development Council Inc. (KRFDC) in partnership with Fahe in Berea. Located at 103 Lewis Street, […]

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 […]