Source: http://mobile.nytimes.com, August 10, 2015 By: Julie Turkewitz The Animas River is the cultural soul of this patch of southwestern Colorado, a sort of moving Main Street that hosts multiple floating parades a year and is typically bustling with rafters and kayakers. Schoolchildren study the river. Sweethearts marry on its banks. Its former name, given […]

Source: http://patch.com, August 11, 2015 By: Simone Wilson The growing list of infected buildings apparently includes one in Manhattan. Twelve New Yorkers have now died and 113 have been infected in the worst Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in NYC history, the mayor announced yesterday. And now that the city’s 2,000-plus water-cooling towers are undergoing mandatory testing […]

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com, August 12, 2015 By: Sneha Shankar GlaxoSmithKline PLC temporarily shut down a manufacturing plant in the eastern town of Zebulon, North Carolina, Tuesday after the bacterium that causes the Legionnaires’ disease, a severe form of pneumonia, was found in a stand-alone cooling tower. The plant manufactures inhaled medications and employs about 850 people. There was no indication that anybody […]

Source: http://www.allgov.com, August 11, 2015 By: Ken Broder San Jose has joined San Diego in employing a novel legal approach to wringing some money out of Monsanto to help pay for polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) pollution in their respective bays caused by the chemical company’s products. Instead of the time-honored Superfund route used in many of […]

Source: http://www.courthousenews.com, August 10, 2015 By: Cameron Langford Twenty-eight workers injured when an oil rig collapsed, killing one in the Bay of Campeche, sued the rig manufacturer in Federal Court. Plaintiffs include the estate representative of Isidoro Solorzano Castillo, who was fatally injured in the May 5 incident. The workers sued rig maker Friede & […]

Source: http://www.oglecountynews.com, July 22, 2015 By: Chris Johnson Nothing unexpected was discovered after county workers removed six underground tanks last week at a former gas station in Oregon. The Ogle County Highway Department dug up the underground tanks July 16 at 501 W. Washington St. These tanks stored fuel and other gas station chemicals. “We […]

Source: http://www.gazettenet.com, August 7, 2015 By: Rebecca Everett City officials believe the cleanup of contaminated soil at the former Northampton Honda dealership on King Street is another step toward preparing the vacant property for a new commercial use, a year after the building was condemned and demolished. Mayor David J. Narkewicz said Friday that GZA […]

Source: http://vtdigger.org, August 7, 2015 By: Andrew Delaney Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Energy Wise Homes, Inc., 2015 VT 52 Ah, insurance law — where “you get what you pay for” isn’t just a maxim, but a shield, sword and everything else in between. We’re going to skip a lot of the finer details […]

Source: New York Times Online, August 6, 2015 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com New York City buildings with water-cooling towers must assess and disinfect the units within the next two weeks under an order issued on Thursday by health officials in response to the outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the South Bronx. The directive, by the health […]

Source: http://www.wcpo.com, August 4, 2015 By: Evan Millward, Zac Pitts, Jordan Burgess Lightning from Monday’s storms sparked a fuel tank explosion along a busy Butler County road, sending a fireball skyward and leaving behind a 40-foot-wide crater in the earth. Officials said Tuesday that cleaning up the three fuel tanks compromised by Monday’s lightning strike […]

Source: http://www.sanjoseinside.com, August 6, 2015 By: Jennifer Wadsworth The city of San Jose has sued Monsanto Company and two related corporations over chemical pollution in the San Francisco Bay. Filed a month ago in the U.S. District Court in California’s Northern District, the suit lists defendants as Monsanto, its chemical manufacturing offshoot Solutia Inc. and […]

Source: EHS Today, August 5, 2015 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Two years ago, Alan White of the United Steelworkers Local 593 testified in support of new silica standards during public hearings held by the U.S. Department of Labor. White, who had worked at a foundry in Buffalo, N.Y. for nearly two decades, found out six years […]