Source: USA Today, September 16, 2011 Pennsylvania: Turtle Creek – The Allegheny County Health Department said 10 cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been discovered, two at the Hamilton Hills Personal Care Facility and eight at the nearby LGAR Health & Rehabilitation Center.  Water supplies at both facilities are being treated.  The cause of the outbreak […]

Read here about an 8 year groundwater contamination cleanup plan that has been outlined at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.

Source: http://www.latimes.com, September 15, 2011 By: Sam Quinones U.S. EPA orders the defense contractor to pay for a system to clean up a shallow aquifer in the San Gabriel Valley. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered defense contractor Northrop Grumman to pay $20 million for a system to clean up contamination in shallow groundwater […]

Source: Baltimore Sun, September 3, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Hurricane Irene did more than topple trees and turn out the lights across the Baltimore area. The storm left behind some nasty, stinky reminders of its fury, as sewage spills forced beach closures and triggered warnings to stay away from the water as summer draws to […]

Read here about how fumes at a McDonald’s in Georgia sent 9 people to the hospital.

Source: http://www.daytondailynews.com, September 4, 2011 By: Mark Gokavi Developer failed to obtain proper permits, caused sediment runoff. One of the Miami Valley’s affluent subdivisions — with some homes selling for more than $800,000 — could face millions of dollars in fines for building the development without proper construction permits. The Ohio Attorney General’s office Monday […]

Source: Baltimore Sun, September 1, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A pipeline carrying raw sewage from a western Baltimore County pumping station to a treatment plant in the city has spilled more than 70 million gallons into the Patapsco River since it ruptured over the weekend. The county said the breach, reported late Sunday, would be […]

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 1, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Since 1992, a coal ash pond next to the Ameren power plant here has been ‘seeping,” as the company puts it, leaking into the surrounding area, according to state records. Put another way, one of the plant’s two ponds storing toxic coal waste has been […]

Source: The New York Times, September 4, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com As the Obama administration pulls back on a broad rule to combat ozone pollution, a different rule that would also reduce smog-forming chemicals in Texas remains on track. The White House announced on Friday that ground-level ozone levels would be reviewed in 2013 rather […]

Source: Muskogee Phoenix (OK), September 4, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com More than 18 months have passed since the parties involved in the state’s poultry industry pollution lawsuit rested their cases. U.S. District Judge Gregory Frizzell, who presided over the 52-day trial that spanned nearly five months, has yet to render an opinion. Former Oklahoma Attorney […]

Read here about a site in Orlando, FL that is being cleaned up of a toxic solvent dumped nearly 50 years ago.

Source: Daily Item (Sunbury, PA), September 4, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The state Department of Environmental Protection has investigated a much-maligned crab shell-roasting operation in Kelly Township and warned the operator to control the bad smell coming from the Hoffa Mill Road farm. But there’s no indication the creation of fertilizer and feed from the […]