Source: https://www.dailynews.com/, May 20, 2020 By: Olga Grigoryants, The U.S. Department of Energy agreed on Tuesday, May 20, to remove 10 contaminated buildings at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory tucked away in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi valleys and used during the Cold War-era to test rocket systems and nuclear reactors. Under […]

Source: https://www.laprogressive.com/ And Maryland’s Plan to Test Local Water & Oysters This article has two parts.  The first examines how the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (Pax River) used toxic firefighting foam in fire-fighting exercises near the beach at Hog Point for years that resulted in PFAS poisoning oysters in the Chesapeake Bay. The second […]

Source: https://www.wbaa.org/, May 19, 2020 By: Rebecca Thiele The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is facing a class action lawsuit over who can get reimbursed for cleaning up leaking underground gas tanks through a state fund. The environmental engineering firm Golars, some of the gas station owners it serves, and the United States Small Business […]

Source: https://komonews.com/, May 19, 2020 By: Kara Kostanich There’s been another discovery of aspergillus mold at Seattle Children’s. A routine air test check detected low levels of what Children’s is calling “fungal spores” in several OR’s and an equipment storage room in the last few weeks. It’s problem that’s plagued the hospital for almost 20 […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/, May 14, 2020 On May 6, 2020, a Montana federal court ruled that an insurer was not obligated to cover $1 million in cleanup costs incurred by an umbrella policyholder after spilling 238 barrels of crude oil and 1,200 barrels of production water into tail-water of the North Chinook Reservoir. In reaching that […]

Source: https://wtop.com/, May 8, 2020 By: Ken Duffy D.C. is suing Monsanto Co. and two affiliated companies, alleging they knowingly manufactured, promoted and sold toxic chemicals that polluted the Potomac River and its tributaries. In the lawsuit, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine accuses Monsanto Co., which is known for making the herbicide Roundup, of knowing […]

Source: https://madison.com/, May 7, 2020 By: Chris Hubbuch New test results show water draining from the Madison airport contains harmful PFAS compounds at thousands of times the concentrations considered safe by other states. Various fluorinated compounds, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems, were found in water taken from 23 outfalls, which […]

Source: https://phys.org/, May 7, 2020 Mercury contamination has been a problem in Virginia’s South River since 1979, when mercury was discovered in the river. Mercury was used in industrial processes at the former DuPont Plant in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1929 to 1950 and in the early 1980s, the Virginia Department of Health issued advisories for […]

Source: https://www.wdtv.com/, May 7, 2020 Seven companies have been named in a lawsuit related to the contamination of a West Virginia city’s water supply from firefighting foam. The lawsuit filed by Charles Town attorney Stephen Skinner seeks damages for exposing Martinsburg residents to chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAs. Among the defendants […]

Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/, May 5, 2020 By: Jonathan Bach p class=”content__segment combx meterwall__content”>Stagnant water inside buildings can become a spawning ground for potentially lethal bacteria, including Legionella, Portland city officials warned. Legionella can cause Legionnaires’ diseases, a kind of pneumonia. Read more.

Source: https://www.military.com/, May 5, 2020 By: Patricia Kime Military families living in 38,000 housing units owned and operated by the U.S. government face health and safety risks such as lead-based paint, asbestos, radon and contaminated drinking water because the services have failed to monitor these threatening living conditions, the Defense Department’s Inspector General found. Read […]

Source: https://vtdigger.org/, May 4, 2020 By: Elizabeth Gribkoff Bennington College professors say that the incineration of toxic firefighting foam at a plant near Albany, New York, appears to have contaminated nearby communities with PFAS. The federal Department of Defense and 25 states, including Vermont, shipped old foam to the Norlite Incinerator in an effort to […]