Source: https://www.epa.gov/, May 18, 2022 Today, EPA is taking an important step forward to protect people from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by adding five PFAS chemicals for a total of six PFAS chemicals to a list of risk-based values that help EPA determine if response or remediation activities are needed. EPA’s action provides the […]

Source: https://gothamist.com/, June 1, 2022 by: Catalina Gonella Two people have now died from Legionnaires’ disease in the Bronx, health officials said Wednesday. The city’s health department said 24 people have been diagnosed since May 3rd, and four are currently hospitalized — the latest update on the cluster of cases in the Highbridge neighborhood of […]

Source: https://www.ul.com/, March 23, 2022 By: Chelsea Lane The California Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for implementing and issuing public rulings about the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, also known as Proposition 65. Prop 65 was enacted to protect citizens and the […]

Source: https://www.newsobserver.com/, June 1, 2022 By: Adam Wagner A bipartisan bill under consideration this week would allow the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality to declare a company responsible for contaminating drinking water with so-called “forever chemicals” and force it to pay for treatment upgrades. House Bill 1095, “PFAS Pollution and Polluter Liability,” has four primary […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, June 1, 2022 By: Garret Ellison The bucolic farmland along the Newaygo and Oceana county border seems far removed from the perils of industrial pollution. Yet, that is exactly what the state is investigating this year at two properties where crops and livestock were farmed on land tainted by manufacturing waste once used […]

Source: https://thehill.com/, May 31, 2022 By: Rachel Frazin The Defense Department is reporting high levels of toxic perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water near several of its bases, according to new data released by the department. Drinking water testing near bases in Washington state, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan found levels of the chemicals well […]

Source: https://www.newcivilengineer.com/, June 1, 2022 By: Catherine Kennedy A Canadian engineer will face a disciplinary hearing this month after a bridge he designed collapsed just hours after opening. The five-day hearing in front of a panel of the Discipline Committee of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) will begin on 6 […]

Source: https://www.courierpostonline.com/, May 31, 2022 By: Phaedra Trethan and Jim Walsh A report prepared for the New Jersey Department of Transportation blames a “complex” failure for the collapse of a retaining wall at a Direct Connection roadway reconstruction site. Among the failures: heavy rains, but also the wrong type of sand used in the wall’s […]

Source: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/, May 27, 2022 The New Jersey Department of Health in coordination with the Parsippany-Troy Hills Health and Human Services Department is investigating three cases of Legionnaires’ disease in guests who stayed at the Hilton/Hampton Inn Parsippany Hotel last year. Legionnaires’ disease is a type of pneumonia caused by breathing in Legionella bacteria. The guests visited the hotel, […]

Source: https://www.wect.com/, May 27, 2022 By: Michael Praats Nearly five years ago residents relying on drinking water from the Cape Fear River learned about the pollution of the river with the chemical known as GenX. The revelation spurred lawsuits, federal intervention, and anger from those impacted by the pollution; but so far, polluters have largely avoided paying […]

Source: https://www.abqjournal.com/, May 28, 2022 By: Theresa Davis Art Schaap remembers the day in 2018 when people from Cannon Air Force Base knocked on his front door and asked to test his water. The Clovis dairy farmer had seen airmen use firefighting foam during training exercises. But he soon learned that toxic chemicals from that […]

Source: https://www.stateaginsights.com/, May 27, 2022 On April 28, 2022, the California Attorney General launched an investigation into the “fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their role in causing and exacerbating the global plastics pollution crisis.”  As a first step, the CA AG issued a subpoena to ExxonMobil, “a major source of global plastic pollution, seeking information […]