Source: https://www.mprnews.org/, May 28, 2024 By: Cathy Wurzer and Gracie Stockton Eastern Twin Cities suburbs including Oakdale, Woodbury and Hastings are working to remove toxic PFAS from their drinking water supplies. PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are human-made chemicals manufactured since the 1940s. They’re found in a variety of consumer products, including firefighting foam, carpet, stain-resistant […]

Source: https://www.politico.com/, May 23, 2024 By: Alex Guillen and Chris Marquette Norfolk Southern will pay just over $500 million — $310 in environmental cleanup and $200 million for rail safety upgrades — as a result of last year’s disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the Biden administration announced on Thursday. The proposed settlement, reached […]

Source: https://www.seattlepi.com/, May 29, 2024 By: Jordan Gass-Poore, The Uproot Project For more than a decade, some residents of the tiny Richmond, Rhode Island, neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks buried under service stations a few hundred yards from their […]

Source: https://apnews.com/, May 21, 2024 A Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than $30 million in connection with two explosions that injured workers and caused the evacuation of thousands, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. The explosions at a TPC Group plant in the […]

Source: https://www.live-oasis.com/ If you haven’t heard, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of compounds that are commonly found in drinking water. These compounds are known to be harmful to human health and have been linked to various health issues, including cancer, thyroid disease, and immune system disorders. Unfortunately, PFAS are not only found […]

Source: https://www.kezi.com/, May 21, 2024 By: Aaron Arellano The Oregon Department of Agriculture filed a lawsuit against Lakeview Stables for allegedly leaching contaminants into the water of Fern Ridge Reservoir for the past seven years. Since 2016, the ODA said they have frequently reached out to the owners of the Lakeview Stables property through verbal […]

Source: https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/, May 22, 2024 By: Irvin Jackson BASF has agreed to pay $316.5 million to resolve liability the company faces in lawsuits brought by dozens of cities and municipalities nationwide, over widespread water contamination caused by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contained in firefighting foam and other products manufactured by the company. While PFAS […]

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/, May 21, 2024 By: Cecilia Garzella Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new emission standards targeting coal-fired power plants that aim to cut their carbon pollution, a major contributor to global warming and climate change, by 90%. This federal initiative marks a significant step toward combating rising temperatures and shifting weather patterns caused by […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, May 21, 2024 By: Kyle Bagenstose The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $300m in new funding to clean up and redevelop 200 industrial sites across the country. Speaking on Monday from what was once an oil station in south-west Philadelphia’s Kingsessing neighborhood, the EPA’s administrator, Michael Regan, said his agency would allocate […]

Source: https://whyy.org/, May 21, 2024 By: Sophia Schmidt A chain link fence surrounds a tangle of green brush where oil tanks once stood at the site of the shuttered 49th Street Terminal along the Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia. Local economic development officials have big plans for the vacant site. But first, they need to […]

Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/, May 21, 2024 German chemical company BASF said on Tuesday it reached a $316.5 million settlement with some U.S. public water systems that claimed toxic “forever chemicals” in firefighting foam made by the company contaminated their water supplies. The money provided by the settlement, which must be approved by a federal judge, will […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, May 13, 2024 By: Joseph M. Englert, Dylan M. Bensinger and Mikaela Whitman, McGuireWoods LLP On April 19, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the designation of two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and their salts and structural isomers—as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, […]