Source: https://pix11.com/, January 25, 2022 By: Mark Sundstrom, Tom Kaminski After a massive fire broke out at a Newark recycling center early Tuesday, smoke could be smelled as far away as Manhattan and the Bronx, officials said. AIR11 was over the scene Tuesday just after 6 a.m. as two large piles of metal burned at […]

Source: https://www.pennlive.com/, January 21, 2022 By: Christine Vendel Weeks before a trial was to begin to determine fault and damages for a catastrophic wall collapse in Harrisburg, the lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount. Howard Henry filed the lawsuit and several other legal challenges after the 25-foot wall next to the Mulberry Street Bridge in […]

Source: https://www.theday.com/, January 22, 2022 By: Claire Bessette Cleanup work at the former Norwich Hospital property is expected to resume the first week of February, with several “quick hits” projects before the final push starts in March, Preston Redevelopment Agency Chairman Sean Nugent said. The cleanup effort, which must be completed before the town turns over the 393-acre property […]

Source: https://www.propublica.org/, January 23, 2022 By: Lulu Ramadan For Michelle Leahy, it started with headaches, inflamed rashes on her arms and legs, and blisters in her mouth. Some students and staff at Sky Valley Education Center, an alternative public school in Monroe, also had strange symptoms: cognitive problems, skin cysts, girls as young as 6 […]

Source: https://madison.com/, January 21, 2022 By: Chris Hubbuch Facing mounting pressure to clean up toxic waste at the Dane County Regional Airport, the county is planning to sue the makers of so-called “forever chemicals.” County Executive Joe Parisi announced Thursday that he would introduce a resolution authorizing the county to hire outside attorneys to pursue […]

Source: https://www.wesa.fm/, January 21, 2022 By: Reid Frazier An electric utility has agreed to pay a $610,000 fine and build new discharge pipelines at two coal ash landfills as part of a settlement with federal and state agencies over water pollution. According to the settlement and a complaint filed in federal court in Pittsburgh by the U.S. Environmental […]

Source: https://www.mondaq.com/, January 21, 2022 By: Alec Tyra, Freeman Mathis & Gary PFAS in Construction Materials Per-and-Poly Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are a broad class of manmade, highly stable chemicals. PFAS exhibit both grease repelling (lipophobic) and water repelling (hydrophobic) properties due to their unique chemical structure. These unique properties have contributed to the use of […]

Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/, January 17, 2022 By: Grace Hase Before shovels break ground to officially kick off construction of the new Vallco Town Center, property owners will have to rid parts of the 50-acre site of chemicals left behind from several dry cleaners and an old automotive center. A cleanup in the form of soil removal […]

Source: https://weartv.com/, January 18, 2022 By: John Rupolo The Gulf Breeze City Council voted in favor of a settlement with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Tuesday night. The city was facing a million dollar fine in connection with the Midway water crisis last year. The DEP said Brown Construction Company, the Midway Water company […]

Source: https://www.inquirer.com/, January 14, 2022 By: Frank Kummer A worker failed to shut off a valve Thursday at the AdvanSix plant in Philadelphia and up to 2,000 gallons of phenol spilled, with some possibly entering the sewer system, according to a police report. The incident occurred at about 4:20 a.m. on the 2500 block of […]

Source: http://indepthnh.org/, January 15, 2022 Community Action Works (formerly Toxics Action Center) and Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) have settled their federal Clean Water Act lawsuit against Casella Waste Systems, Inc., and North Country Environmental Services, Inc., for the discharge of pollutants from the companies’ Bethlehem Landfill into the Ammonoosuc River. Read more.

Source: https://www.mondaq.com/, January 18, 2022 By: Olivia Rangaswami, Taft Stettinius & Hollister On Jan. 10, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget that will designate PFOA and PFOS as “Superfund hazardous substances.” In designating PFOA and PFOS (collectively “PFAS”) as a “hazardous substance” under […]