Source: https://www.cnn.com/, December 22, 2019 By: Amir Vera A green liquid was found oozing onto Interstate 696 in the Detroit suburb of Madison Heights Friday, causing authorities to block off portions of the highway and call in federal agencies to investigate. By Saturday, it was discovered that the mysterious liquid was the chemical hexavalent chromium […]

Source: Trenton Times (NJ), December 22, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ New Jersey’s campaign to hold polluters accountable for decades of damage to the Garden State’s environment marches on, with two new lawsuits filed Wednesday by the state. New Jersey filed complaints against businesses that spent years contaminating nearby waters and then failed to clean up […]

Source: The Washington Post, December 20, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Birds are winging their way somewhere unexpected: building codes. Turns out that glass-covered buildings in modern cities can become graveyards for migrating birds, leading to hundreds of millions of bird deaths each year. Under pressure from conservation groups, architects and local governments are increasingly tweaking […]

Source: Associated Press, December 22, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ It took a blaze that nearly destroyed Paris’ most famous cathedral to reveal a gap in global safety regulations for lead, a toxic building material found across many historic cities. After the Notre Dame fire in April spewed dozens of tons of toxic lead-dust into the […]

Source: https://www.advisen.com By: Erin Ayers The Hartford Financial Services Group announced its decision to stop underwriting any organizations that draws over 25 percent of its revenue from coal mining, joining a growing number of insurers that have taken stances against industries with negative environmental impacts. “The world needs affordable, accessible energy to support global economic […]

Source: The Daily Herald (Everett, WA), December 19, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A century-old Seattle barrel company has been indicted along with its third-generation owner in what prosecutors describe as a long-running pollution conspiracy. The 36-count indictment made public Wednesday said Seattle Barrel and Cooperage used a hidden drain to pump caustic wastewater directly into […]

Source: https://www.njspotlight.com/, December 19, 2019 By: Jon Hurdle New Jersey filed two more Natural Resource Damage lawsuits against alleged industrial polluters, continuing an aggressive strategy by the Murphy administration to get compensation for contamination of the natural environment. The attorney general’s office and the Department of Environmental Protection on Wednesday jointly announced suits against Sherwin-Williams […]

Source: https://www.recordonline.com/, December 18, 2019 by: Daniel Axelrod Ulster County, town and federal environmental officials are teaming up to force the clean-up of the “festering wound” that is the former IBM Tech City property, County Executive Pat Ryan announced on Wednesday. At a press conference at the county offices in Kingston, Ryan said the EPA […]

Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/, December 17, 2019 By: Lisa M. Krieger The nation’s largest mushroom grower has agreed to pay $2.24 million to settle an environmental protection lawsuit brought by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. The company, Watsonville-based Monterey Mushrooms Inc., was accused of polluting a South Bay creek with manure for years, despite orders and warnings […]

Source: https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/, December 17, 2019 By: Hannah Shirley TC Energy has not yet been fined for the Keystone Pipeline oil spill outside Edinburg in October, but it will be, a North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality official said. The Oct. 29 Keystone Pipeline spill released about 383,000 gallons of crude oil and is estimated to […]

Source: Alaska Dispatch News, December 17, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that BP Exploration Alaska has agreed to pay a $125,100 penalty related to violations of its federal hazardous waste permit for activities on Alaska’s North Slope. BP, a major Alaska oil producer that’s asking regulators to approve the $5.6 […]

Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/, December 12, 2019 By: Kelsey Hammon Three out of 18 residential wells tested this fall in Boulder Heights showed elevated levels of PFAS, also known as fluorochemicals, according to results released last week by Boulder County Public Health. Homeowners were prompted to have their water examined in September after a public meeting took […]