Source: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com, January 6, 2016 BERKELEY (CBS SF) – The Berkeley City Council has voted unanimously to file a nuisance lawsuit that seeks to hold Monsanto Co. accountable for the cost of cleaning up contamination that the city believes is linked to the company’s products. The council’s 6-0 vote on Tuesday means that Berkeley is […]

Source: http://www.theolympian.com, January 6, 2016 By: Lisa Pemberton Cold weather has bogged down efforts to clean up a fuel spill at the Olympia School District’s bus barn in Tumwater. “It’s going to take a few more days,” Department of Ecology spokesman Chase Gallagher said Wednesday. “Part of (the delay) was the ice was thawing on […]

Source: The Independent (UK), January 2, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com It was the middle of the night when Alexandra Ortiz first smelt the rotten-egg stench of leaking gas from the Aliso Canyon methane facility in the hills above her neighbourhood. “The whole house smelled of gas,” Ms Ortiz, 34, said last week. “At the time, […]

Source: http://www.startribune.com, December 30, 2015 by: Jessie Van Berkel Superfund process likely to be lengthy and costly. The Environmental Protection Agency is taking over the cleanup of a Burnsville landfill — which could mean big bills for businesses, school districts and cities around the metro that sent trash there. The state has spent months negotiating […]

Source: http://www.courier-journal.com, December 30, 2015 By: James Bruggers Chemicals found at hundreds to thousands of times higher than officials consider to be safe. The idle Black Leaf industrial property in the Park Hill neighborhood is awash with chemicals, potentially complicating a cleanup, the latest round of environmental testing confirms. Some soil samples on 29 acres […]

Source: http://www.masslive.com, December 27, 2015 By: Mary Serreze The owners of a former mill at 188 Pleasant St. have been advised by state environmental regulators to take immediate action after polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were found in soil samples collected from a stained area behind the building’s loading dock. The 48,726 square-foot, three-story brick building, built […]

Source: http://www.whig.com, December 28, 2015 By: Doug Wilson QUINCY, IL — A waterborne bacteria sickened 54 residents and led to 12 deaths at the Illinois Veterans Home between July and September, among the nation’s most widespread outbreaks of an ailment that was first diagnosed in 1976. Centers for Disease Control environmental health specialists cited an […]

Source: The Charleston Gazette (WV), December 26, 2015 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com At least 90 residents will see the value of their property diminish when crude MCHM leaks out of a Putnam County landfill and into Hurricane Creek, according to attorneys who represent a woman who lives in the area. Those attorneys have asked a judge […]

Source: http://www.democratandchronicle.com, December 6, 2015 By: Steve Orr Environmental remediation at a Gates company has been successfully completed just as similar work is beginning at a commercial property in Brighton. The remediated property is Buell Automatics, a precision-machined parts maker at 381 Buell Road near Greater Rochester International Airport. There, the owners enrolled in the state […]

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com, December 15, 2015 By: Lauren Abbate At the second public hearing on the ongoing environmental cleanup, a Maine Department of Environmental Protection representative proposed two possible means of remediation. WILTON — The town of Wilton has two realistic options for the environmental cleanup of the Forster Mill site, but both come with a […]

Source: http://www.sfreporter.com, December 18, 2015 By: Elizabeth Miller Plan for chromium plume aims to stop shift, but holds off on broader remedy More than 40 years after contaminated water was dumped into canyons around Los Alamos and nine years after they started studying the problem, the US Department of Energy now has a short-term strategy for […]

Source: http://trib.com, December 18, 2015 By: Benjamin Storrow A 30-month state investigation costing more than $900,000 concludes fracking is unlikely to have contaminated drinking water east of Pavillion but leaves many other questions unresolved about the role natural gas operations may have played in polluting the water. Samples taken from 13 water wells in 2014 […]