Source: https://pantagraph.com/, July 11, 2022 By: Michael Hawthorne Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body. Scientists call the chemicals per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS. They are commonly known […]

Source: https://www.mynbc5.com/, July 11, 2022 By: John Hawks A paving project on Route 11 in Springfield called the roadway to be shut for several hours on Monday after a tar spill caused an estimated 1,500 gallons of chemicals to spill out of a construction vehicle. Officials were called to the scene after receiving word that […]

Source: https://www.msn.com/ By: Howard Blume No one was injured. Two district vehicles parked under the shady concourse were destroyed. But the major structural failure triggered safety inspections that uncovered serious defects that prompted the shutdown of the 20-year-old campus — and led the school district to conclude that its main three-story building, with 110 classrooms, […]

Source: https://www.westernmassnews.com/, July 7, 2022 By: Mary Wilson Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has sued 13 manufacturers of toxic PFAS chemicals used in firefighting foam. They said the foam has led to the contamination of drinking water sources in communities across the state, including Westfield. Kristen Mello welcomes health officials onto her Westfield property… “To […]

Source: https://www.nhbr.com/, July 7, 2022 By: Bob Sanders Just as the state reached a $500,000 settlement with Georgia Pacific to reimburse it for its investigation of a Superfund site at the former Brown Paper Company mill in Berlin, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to renew its investigation of a contaminated site Wilton – […]

Source: https://constructionexec.com/, July 5, 2022 By: Mark D. Shifton Ensuring appropriate insurance coverage for large construction projects is an important and complicated process. While insurance will never be able to prevent potentially ruinous events such as catastrophic construction accidents or the discovery of latent construction defects long after substantial completion, the right insurance coverage can […]

Source: https://www.fox26houston.com/, July 5, 2022 Officials in the city of Houston and Harris County are taking action against Union Pacific regarding the contamination of Houston’s Fifth Ward, according to a statement. The statement says that Harris County Attorney Christian D Menefee, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will submit notices of intent to sue pursuant to the federal Resource Conservation and […]

Source: https://www.kcur.org/, July 6, 2022 By: Kavahn Mansouri Workers at a manure digester in northwest Iowa did not act on signs of a potential leak before thousands of gallons of wastewater poured into nearby waterways, according to documents from the state’s environmental regulator. In early February, a manure digester owned and operated by Colorado-based biofuel […]

Source: https://www.mass.gov/, June 29, 2022 A Shrewsbury resident has agreed to pay $120,000 to reimburse the state for the cost of responding to a 2016 explosion and fire caused when his contractor demolished a backyard shed at his residential property, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today. The explosion and fire released hazardous chemicals and fumes, […]

Source: https://www.mondaq.com/, June 28, 2022 By: Erin E. Lamb, Freeman Mathis & Gary At its Petersburg, New York plant, Tonoga, Inc. made products and materials coated with polytetrafluoroethylene, better known by its trade name, Teflon. Before 2013, when making Teflon, Tonoga used perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonate, or a combination of both. These are man-made chemicals […]

Source: https://www.inquirer.com/, June 28, 2022 By: Adam Smeltz A class of synthetic chemicals identified in 2019 near Penn State University’s airport has fouled tap water in an adjacent neighborhood, and families there are now demanding to know why it took environmental officials so long to test their wells, which they use for bathing, cooking, and […]

Source: https://www.fox21news.com/, June 28, 2022 Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper urged the U.S. Air Force to address water contamination in El Paso County from polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which were found in firefighting foam used at Peterson Space Force Base (SFB). According to the lawmakers, PFAS have contaminated the Widefield aquifer that provides drinking water […]