Source: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/, June 24, 2022 By: Jared Strong A large Iowa Falls egg-laying chicken operation improperly stored hundreds of thousands of gallons of liquid manure that had the potential to leak into a nearby creek that feeds the Iowa River, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The Opal Foods facility is located about […]

Source: https://www.cnn.com/, June 24, 2022 By: Denise Royal and Elizabeth Wolfe On the eve of the one-year anniversary of a catastrophic condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, a judge approved an approximately $1 billion settlement for those impacted by the disaster that killed 98 people, an attorney for the plaintiffs confirmed Thursday. The judge’s decision finalizes […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/, June 22, 2022 The Mississippi Court of Appeals addressed in a May 31st opinion a dispute over responsibility for environmental contamination between a lessor and a lessee. See Biloxi Dock & Ice, LLC v. Back Bay Fuel and Ice, LLC, 2022 WL 1743238. The dispute was complicated by the fact that a definitive source of […]

Source: https://www.statesman.com/, June 22, 2022 By: Fernand Figueroa A contractor error is believed to have caused the unauthorized discharge of raw sewage from a manhole along Brushy Creek, according to a news release from the city of Round Rock. The error occurred during expansion work at the East Brushy Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant at 3939 […]

Source: https://siouxcityjournal.com/, June 22, 2022 By: Nick Hytrek Federal contractors have begun cleaning up tons of hazardous leaded glass illegally stored in South Sioux City and in rural Akron, Iowa, by a now-defunct recycling business owned by a former Sioux City councilman. On Tuesday, workers with an excavator and skid loader continued to remove an […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, June 17, 2022 By: Stephanie R. Feingold, Laurie Matthews and Drew Cleary Jordan, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP In its latest action under its PFAS Roadmap, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued new and updated drinking water health advisories for four PFAS chemicals. These health advisories are an interim step in a larger […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, June 17, 2022 The state says testing has confirmed that a petroleum product released into the Flint River earlier this week came from Lockhart Chemical Co. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy reported its findings in a news release on Friday, June 17, and a spokesman said the agency has […]

Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/, June 20, 2022 By: Jenny Whidden Community concerns of Lake Michigan contamination from a Waukegan power plant’s recently shuttered coal-fired units heightened last week after an environmental study identified the facility as a potential flood risk, citing rising lake levels due to climate change. The report, released by Chicago’s Environmental Law and Policy Center, […]

Source: https://www.wqpmag.com/, June 15, 2022 By: Cristina Tuser The Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) confirmed a fifth case of Legionnaires’ disease in a guest who stayed at The Grand Islander by Hilton Grand Vacations in Waikiki. According to the Hawai’i DOH, the fifth case was diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease on May 23. The individual is […]

Source: https://www.northjersey.com/, June 16, 2022 By: Scott Fallon New Jersey filed a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. on Thursday seeking millions of dollars in damages for widespread pollution dumped more than 50 years ago in Upper Ringwood next to a neighborhood that has been home to generations of Native Americans. It is the latest action taken […]

Source: https://wfpl.org/, June 15, 2022 By: Ryan Van Velzer For years, environmental officials have said the levels of forever chemicals found in Kentucky drinking water were safe, but on Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revised that risk. At least 38 drinking water systems in Kentucky, including Louisville, have levels of forever chemicals the EPA now […]

Source: https://apnews.com/, June 15, 2022 By: Matthew Daly The Environmental Protection Agency is warning that two nonstick and stain-resistant compounds found in drinking water are more dangerous than previously thought and pose health risks even at levels so low they cannot currently be detected. The two compounds, known as PFOA and PFOS, have been voluntarily phased out […]