Source: https://www.enr.com/, January 2, 2020 The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama era, according to 2019 figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays. […]

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 21, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ More farmers have filed official complaints with the state of Illinois about the weedkiller dicamba this year than ever before. As the herbicide has risen to prominence across a sprawling footprint of U.S. farmland, so have complaints about its use, most claiming the pesticide, applied […]

Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), December 23, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A rash of recent lawsuits against 3M have intensified concerns that it could face massive legal and cleanup costs over a class of chemicals called PFAS. The Maplewood (Minnesota)-based industrial giant has already reached a historic $850 million pollution settlement with Minnesota. It settled […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, December 31, 2019 By: Amy O’Connor Jim Beam was fined $600,000 earlier this month after a July warehouse fire sent a nearly 23-mile (37-kilometer) plume of alcohol into the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, killing fish. The distiller agreed to the fine in a Dec. 6 order from the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, January 2, 2020 A north Alabama school system has taken the first step to sue 3M Co. over claims that chemicals are leaking from a closed landfill that is on school system property. News outlets reported that Decatur’s school system filed notice last month saying it plans to sue over industrial toxins leaking […]

Source: http://www.startribune.com/, December 23, 2019 By: Dee DePass A rash of recent lawsuits against 3M have intensified concerns that it could face massive legal and cleanup costs over a class of chemicals called PFAS. The Maplewood-based industrial giant has already reached a historic $850 million pollution settlement with Minnesota. It settled a $35 million case […]

Source: http://www.startribune.com/, December 23, 2019 A north Alabama school system has taken the first step to sue 3M Co. over claims that chemicals are leaking from a closed landfill that is on school system property. News outlets reported that Decatur’s school system has filed notice saying it plans to sue over industrial toxins leaking from […]

Source: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/, December 23, 2019 New York is moving forward with a $585 million plan to clean up a massive plume of underground contamination left from Long Island’s heyday as a defense and aerospace manufacturing hub, and it’s ready to take polluters to court over the bill. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that if defense […]

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 […]