Source: http://www.opb.org, June 23, 2016 By: Cassandra Profita Seven companies have filed a legal dispute with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the plans to clean up the Portland Harbor Superfund site. The companies, including Chevron, Gunderson, NW Natural, Union Pacific Railroad, Evraz Inc., Arkema and TOC Holdings Co., are all members of the Lower Willamette […]

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com, June 24, 2016 By: Jeff Blumenthal D. G. Yuengling and Son, the nation’s oldest brewing company, has agreed to pay almost $10 million to settle Clean Water Act violations involving its two breweries near its Pottsville, Pa., headquarters The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that in a […]

Source: http://www.detroitnews.com, June 22, 2016 By: Jonathan Oosting Attorney General Bill Schuette on Wednesday sued a pair of engineering firms for allegedly allowing the Flint water contamination crisis to “occur, continue and worsen,” a claim the companies denied and vowed to fight. Schuette filed the civil lawsuit in Genesee County Circuit Court against Veolia North […]

Source: http://www.goblueridge.net, June 23, 2016 By: Bill Fisher AppHealthCare (Appalachian District Health Department) has been notified of three confirmed cases of Legionnaire’s disease in persons who stayed at or visited the Meadowbrook Inn & Suites during the 10 days before illness onset; all were treated and are recovering. AppHealthCare is currently investigating to identify potential […]

Source: Las Vegas Sun, June 22, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Tucked behind the Boulevard mall, the Paradise Palms neighborhood is quiet on a Tuesday afternoon. Except for an occasional rooftop solar array, its mid-century homes appear unchanged since they were built in the shadow of a less developed, more desolate Las Vegas Strip. But as […]

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, June 18, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The city received $20 million Friday from Kinder Morgan, the fuel tank farm operator at Qualcomm Stadium, to settle a nine-year-old lawsuit over underground pollution at the 166-acre Mission Valley site. Half the money is to go to the city’s Public Utilities Department, which owns […]

Source: http://www.grbj.com, June 17, 2016 By: Jesse O’Brien EPA plans further testing after likely dry-cleaning contaminant found. An environmental threat has pushed two nonprofits from their buildings, and that could be just the beginning. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality found high levels of a chemical called tetrachloroethylene, or PERC, at 401 Hall SE, 1168 […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, June 17, 2016 By: Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Cincinnati Insurance Co. v. Roy’s Plumbing, Inc., 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75958 (W.D.N.Y. June 10, 2016), the United States District Court for the Western District of New York had occasion to consider the application of a pollution exclusion […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, June 20, 2016 By: Greg Wright State energy companies are currently responsible for up to $1 billion in environmental damages, according to companies’ filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. It’s common practice for companies to recover a portion of the cost of environmental damages by increasing customers’ rates through regulator approved […]

Source: http://legalnewsline.com, June 16, 2016 By: Mark Iandolo The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Cotter Corp. NSL will pay $957,604 in past costs to settle a case where the EPA looked into contamination at Cotter’s uranium mill at the Lincoln Park Superfund site near Cañon City, Colorado. As part of the agreement, Cotter […]

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 2016 By: Justine McDaniel and Laura McCrystal When the planes burned, the kids would come out. Hope Grosse and her siblings would run down their Warminster street and rubberneck amid shrieking sirens. They would watch Navy firefighters shoot a dense white foam from hoses, smothering the flames that leapt […]

Source: http://www.natureworldnews.com, June 16, 2016 By: John Raphael An unscheduled evaluation in the Allegheny General Hospital revealed that two water tanks of the hospital were tested positive for Legionella bacteria, which is known to cause the deadly Legionnaires’ disease. According to the report from CBS Pittsburg, the evaluation was done after a cancer patient was […]