Source: Berkley Environmental, December 14, 2016 Legionella is a bacteria that can grow in hot tubs, cooling towers, hot water tanks, large plumbing systems, or the air-conditioning systems of large buildings. The bacteria spreads through the inhalation of water vapor and can cause Legionnaires’ disease. Legionnaires’ disease is a severe, often fatal, form of pneumonia […]

Source: http://www.macombdaily.com, December 2, 2016 By: Mitch Hotts The South Macomb Disposal Authority has voted to forward all bills for clean-up efforts at the closed landfills at Freedom Hill County Park to the Macomb County Executive’s office for payment. The costs are related to damage done when a contractor dumped up to 200,000 cubic yards […]

Bill Simpich enjoys the panoramic views from the San Francisco Bay Trail in Marina Bay so much that he bought a house nearby about a year ago. “I like it here,” said Simpich, walking his dog along the trail last month. “But if I had kids, I would have never moved here.” Marina Bay used […]

Source: http://billingsgazette.com, December 13, 2016 By: Christine Peterson Sinclair Casper Refining Company recently paid the Environmental Protection Agency $655,000 to settle a decades-old cleanup in Thermopolis. The company agreed in September to pay for costs associated with reclaiming the site of the company’s Thermopolis oil refinery, which operated from 1920 to 1969, according to a […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 7, 2016 By: William J. Peters, Gordon & Rees LLP The California Supreme Court has ruled that premises owners and employers owed a duty to the employee’s household to prevent take-home exposure to asbestos. For example, claims that the plaintiff was exposed when a family member came home with asbestos fibers on […]

Source: http://www.modeldmedia.com, December 12, 2016 By: Nina Ignaczak Wayne State University urban geology professor Jeffrey Howard knows Detroit dirt. As a teacher and researcher, he’s been digging into Detroit’s vacant land and industrial sites over the last several decades in an effort to better understand and classify the city’s soils, many of which are disturbed […]

Source: http://patersontimes.com, December 13, 2016 By: Jayed Rahman The former environmental occupational health and safety officer for the Paterson Public Schools claims the state-operated district improperly handled asbestos and mold removal at a number schools buildings in a lawsuit filed in New Jersey Superior Court. Brenda Zemo, who worked at the district over the past […]

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com, December 8, 2016 By: Melia Robinson Millennium Tower, a $350 million skyscraper completed in 2008, has sunk 16 inches and tilted two inches since it opened. Now San Francisco’s very own “leaning tower” is in the middle of a battle between the building’s developers, residents, and city officials over who’s at fault. The fight’s far from […]

Source: https://www.ucdavis.edu, December 1, 2016 By: Andy Fell Soil at the site of the new large lecture hall on California Avenue has been found to contain naturally occurring asbestos. Contractors and UC Davis employees are carrying out air monitoring around the site and preparing to remove soil for appropriate disposal. Most of the work will […]

Source: https://www.greenbiz.com, November 29, 2016 By: John Lombardo America’s history of industrial environmental impact is catching up with our aging water infrastructure. Increasingly, chemicals used for everything from pipeline protection to firefighting are appearing in alarming concentrations in the drinking water that comes from taps in millions of American homes. Hexavalent chromium and lead Hexavalent […]

Source: http://triblive.com, December 2, 2016 By: Mary Ann Thomas More than 50 Cheswick residents who crammed into a borough meeting room Thursday were satisfied with the state’s plan to cap radioactive contamination at a commercial site that stood near Cheswick Avenue and Pittsburgh Street. In 2010, a state Department of Environmental Protection researcher found news […]

Source: https://www.usgs.gov, September 14, 2016 Mercury contamination is widespread, at various levels across western North America in air, soil, sediment, plants, fish and wildlife. An international team of scientists led by the U.S. Geological Survey, recently documented widespread mercury contamination in air, soil, sediment, plants, fish, and wildlife at various levels across western North America. […]