Source: https://www.capecodtimes.com/, November 18, 2022 By: Rachael Devaney YMCA Cape Cod has reopened its aquatic center, several weeks after chemical exposure injured seven children in October. On Wednesday the pool reopened to all aquatics programming, including swim lessons, aqua fitness, and lap swimming. And all seven children injured in the chemical exposure, returned to YMCA […]

Source: https://kstp.com/, November 10, 2022 By: Jennifer Sinco Kelleher More than two dozen families have joined a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Navy of making them sick from jet fuel that leaked into the tap water in their Hawaii homes. There are now more than 100 people in an amended lawsuit filed Thursday that also accuses […]

Source: https://www.military.com/, November 14, 2022 By: Thomas Novelly A bacteria that can cause pneumonia is still being detected in the medical barracks at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, despite weeks of efforts to sanitize the area. In late September, base officials said that 150 residents and staff at Liberty Barracks, where service members who are patients […]

Source: https://progressive.org/, November 17, 2022 By: Johnathan Sharp Since the early 1900s, the U.S. military’s negligent use, storage and disposal of harmful chemical substances on its bases has exposed countless troops to severe health hazards. One example is Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina, where toxic contamination went unnoticed for several decades […]

Source: https://www.sciencefriday.com/, November 18, 2022 Early in 2019, Ed Galbraith faced a crowd of some 200 unhappy Springfield, Missouri residents. He wanted to make amends. Galbraith, then director of Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ environmental quality division, acknowledged that the state agency in charge of protecting the environment should have announced sooner that contaminated water […]

Source: https://vtdigger.org/, November 17, 2022 By: Tiffany Tan Gundreds of property owners in the Bennington area have already received money from a multimillion-dollar settlement in a chemical contamination case, their attorneys said. But they also said the process has been disrupted by the entry of an out-of-state company that unnecessarily offered to help claimants for […]

Source: https://www.wlfi.com/, November 11, 2022 By: Paradise Afshar More than 100 new plaintiffs affected by water contamination at Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Hawaii have been included in a lawsuit against the United States government. The lawsuit was originally filed earlier this year with the US District Court for the District of Hawaii, […]

Source: https://www.nj.com/, November 12, 2022 By: Richard Cowen Carmine Olivieri has spent a good part of his working life making a living on the two lots that he bought 20 years ago on West Street in Bloomfield. Out front is the two-family house at 57 West Street that he grabbed in a foreclosure sale, then […]

Source: https://www.wtae.com/, November 7, 2022 By: Paul Van Osdol A Washington County family is accusing gas drillers of causing so-called “forever chemicals” to get into his drinking water. The chemicals, known as PFAS, have been used in clothing, carpet and food packaging. Bryan Latkanich agreed to allow gas drilling on his property a decade ago, […]

Source: https://www.tampabay.com/, November 8, 2022 By: Barbara Behrendt Private gated neighborhoods. Exclusive club lifestyle. That’s the website pitch for the Champions’ Club in Trinity, a community of estate homes offering residents privacy, the prestigious Fox Hollow Golf Club, its course designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and an elegant clubhouse. But that’s a glossy image, residents […]

Source: https://www.thereflector.com/, November 7, 2022 By: Rick Bannan The city of Ridgefield is looking to clean up a small section of a downtown parking lot that used to be a dry cleaning business, which led to the contamination of 22 acres of land. During its Nov. 3 meeting, the Ridgefield City Council voted unanimously to […]

Source: https://whyy.org/, November 4, 2022 By: Zoe Read The City of Philadelphia has sued DuPont, 3M, and other chemical companies for contaminating drinking water with the toxic class of chemicals PFAS. The civil suit was filed by the City’s Law Department in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County on Friday. Numerous other states and cities have taken similar […]