Source: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/, February 20, 2020 By: Michael Bott and Sean Myers McClymonds High School will be closed for the rest of the week after the chemical compound trichloroethylene (TCE) was found in groundwater beneath the school, the Oakland Unified School District said Thursday. According to the district, the compound was not found in the school’s […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, February 20, 2020 By: Garret Ellison Chemical manufacturer 3M will pay $55 million to help footwear giant Wolverine World Wide cover the cost of extending municipal water to neighborhoods with drinking water contaminated by PFAS chemicals from industrial waste dumping. The payment was announced late afternoon Thursday, Feb. 20. It comes a day […]

Source: Detroit Free Press (MI), February 20, 2020 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A federal judge on Wednesday approved a settlement in the spread of potentially health-harming PFAS compounds surrounding a former Rockford, Michigan, shoe factory. Shoemaker Wolverine Worldwide didn’t admit liability, but agreed to pay $69.5 million in a consent decree with the state of Michigan […]

Source: https://www.freep.com/, February 19, 2020 By: Darcie Moran A federal judge on Wednesday approved a settlement in the spread of potentially health-harming PFAS compounds surrounding a former Rockford, Michigan, shoe factory. Shoemaker Wolverine Worldwide didn’t admit liability, but agreed to pay $69.5 million in a consent decree with the state of Michigan and Plainfield and Algoma […]

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/, February 18, 2020 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an administrative order to those responsible to clean up contaminated soil at a site near the northern Illinois town of DePue, where a zinc smelter and fertilizer plant was once located, it was announced Tuesday. The EPA issued the order to TCI Pacific Communications and CBS/Westinghouse, according to the […]

Source: https://the-journal.com/, February 18, 2020 By: Jim Mimiaga For nearly 10 years, Atlantic Richfield Co. has been cleaning up the Rico-Argentine Mine site along the Dolores River as part of a 2011 Environmental Protection Agency removal order. Now, Arco seeks more than $63.7 million in cleanup costs from the mine’s previous owners, which it claims […]

Source: https://www.klcc.org/, February 19, 2020 By: Chris M. Lehman The City of Salem says its drinking water continues to be safe after a truck crash on Sunday resulted in fuel spilling into the North Santiam River. The river supplies Salem and several smaller towns with drinking water. Harry Esteve of the Oregon Department of Environmental […]

Source: Defense Environment Alert, February 18, 2020 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Responding to regulatory uncertainty, insurers have begun excluding coverage for both actual and potential contamination stemming from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a move that is killing transactions and can affect a wide array of industry sectors, according to an attorney who spoke at a […]

Source: https://www.stripes.com/, February 12, 2020 Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation on Wednesday demanded the U.S. Defense Department help with drinking water cleanup in eastern New Mexico after traces of a cancer-causing pollutant were found in some wells. U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich along with U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan sent a letter […]

Source: https://fox4kc.com/, February 15, 2020 A jury on Saturday awarded $265 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other farms had severely damaged his trees — an award that could bode well for other farmers suing the chemical’s makers. The […]

Source: Associated Press, February 17, 2020 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Hurricane Harvey’s historic flooding in 2017 overwhelmed power systems at Arkema Inc.’s chemical plant in suburban Houston, eventually causing organic peroxides made at the facility to catch fire and explode, sending noxious black smoke into the air. The blaze forced the evacuation of more than 200 residents […]

Source: https://whnt.com/, February 13, 2020 By: Chelsea Brentzel After years of chemical contamination concerns in North Alabama, 3M appears to be changing its approach on the cleanup of its chemicals. PFAS chemicals — produced at 3M’s Decatur plant for decades — have been found at high levels in the Tennessee River and in the ground in Morgan […]