Source: http://www.times-standard.com, February 17, 2017 By: RUTh Schneider What started out as a very contentious situation has morphed into something more collaborative. That’s how North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board engineering geologist Dave Parson portrays the situation at the former site of Norman’s Dry Cleaners in Henderson Center in Eureka. “It’s quite a success […]

Source: http://www.ecowatch.com, February 18, 2017 By: Lorraine Chow Monsanto may be looking forward to turning a new leaf with its potential $66 billion mega-merger with Bayer AG, but the agrochemical giant just can’t shake its notorious past as the primary manufacturer of highly toxic and banned substances called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, that were once […]

Source: http://www.startribune.com, February 16, 2017 By: Erin Adler Cleanup of the closed Burnsville site could cost $64 million. Nearly 200 businesses, cities and school districts got letters from the federal government this week informing them that they “may be liable” to pay for the cleanup of the Freeway Landfill in Burnsville, which has been estimated […]

Source: http://webwire.com, February 16, 2017 LA Testing provides analytical services and sampling supplies to help detect Legionella outbreaks. A resident from a California nursing home tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease. A local news station reported that the facility shut off access to the water supply under the direction of state and local health officials as […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 14, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The family of a Pittsburgh man who died in October after contracting a fungal infection while he was a cancer patient at UPMC Shadyside filed a lawsuit today alleging negligence by UPMC and the company that washes all of UPMC’s laundry, Paris Cleaners Inc. The lawsuit […]

Source: http://www.twcnews.com, February 10,2017 By: Geoff Redick The small Rensselaer County village rocked by a contaminated water crisis in 2016 is now facing the spectre of more chemicals, this time found in the village’s air. The news, published Thursday evening on the village website, comes from Honeywell International, a company that once operated a factory […]

Source: http://www.theintell.com, February 10, 2017 By: Kyle Bagenstose A tanker truck that overturned on state Route 611 in Warrington on Thursday night spilled at least 4,000 gallons of gasoline into a storm drain, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said Friday morning. The incident snarled morning rush-hour traffic Friday, and northbound 611 between Valley Square […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, February 7, 2017 By: Brian Margolies, Traub Lieberman Strauss & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Saarman Construction, Ltd. v. Ironshore Specialty Ins. Co., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13633 (N.D. Cal. Jan 31, 2017), the United States District Court for the Northern District of California had occasion to consider the application of […]

Source: http://www.bendbulletin.com, February 9, 2017 By: Marina Starleaf Riker A judge will decide whether the case will go to arbitration A Deschutes County Circuit Court judge said Wednesday he needs more information before he’ll make a decision about whether the city of Bend and a Washington-based construction company should settle an $8 million lawsuit in […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 7, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The Butler Area School District put Summit Elementary School students at serious risk by concealing for months that its water supply contained dangerous amounts of lead, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit comes two days after Superintendent Dale Lumley, who also is named […]

Source: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org, February 8, 2017 By: Lisa Sorg At 1,100 acres, Sutton Lake is home to schools of largemouth bass, catfish and crappie. However, the lake also contains high levels of selenium, both in the surface water and in muscles of fish, a consequence of years of coal ash discharge from Duke Energy power plant near […]

Source: http://www.recordonline.com, February 3, 2017 By: Michael Randall The current owner of the former Star Expansion factory will undertake an investigation to determine the current status of pollutants at the state Superfund site. The state Department of Environmental Conservation says the investigation will look for things like groundwater contamination, concentrations of metal in the soil, […]