Source: https://www.nytimes.com/, December 11, 2019 One of the companies responsible for polluting an 80-mile (129-kilometer) stretch of river and floodplains in southwestern Michigan with toxic chemicals will pay at least $245.2 million to advance a cleanup effort that began more than 20 years ago, federal officials said Wednesday. Read more.

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, December 12, 2019 By: Paula Gardner Costs of cleanup are climbing along with the number of contamination sites in Michigan, where PFAS made and packaged across the U.S. touches the drinking water of at least 1.9 million state residents. At the same time, chemical giant 3M is worth more than $96 billion. So who […]

Source: https://www.ctpost.com/, December 10, 2019 By: Rachel Scharf The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has warned the town that the controversial fill pile remains contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and is now telling officials if the chemicals aren’t cleaned up soon they could face penalties. The town said it removed all the PCBs […]

Source: Detroit Free Press, December 11, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A former Rockford shoe factory that for decades used potentially health-harming PFAS compounds, causing widespread environmental contamination nearby, is nearing a $69.5 million settlement with the state of Michigan and Plainfield and Algoma townships. Under preliminary terms of the not-yet-finalized deal, Wolverine Worldwide would agree […]

Source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/, December 6, 2019 By: Erin Douglas State officials have identified a cancer cluster in a north Houston neighborhood near a site contaminated over many decades by railroad operations that treated wooden ties with the hazardous product creosote. Creosote, a preservative considered a probable cancer-causing substance, or carcinogen, by the Environmental Protection Agency, was […]

Source: https://fox59.com/, December 5, 2019 By: Courtney Crown Parents and homeowners filed two lawsuits in state and federal court this week against the Amphenol Corporation, Borgwarner Inc., Borgwarner PDS (Peru), Franklin Power Products Inc. and 400 Forsythe LLC. Those filing the federal case want a jury trial. In the federal class action lawsuit filed on […]

Source: https://gazette.com/, December 6, 2019 By: Jakob Rodgers The hope for a long-sought revival of southeast Colorado Springs, including renovations of some of the city’s most notorious apartment complexes, has turned into a nightmare for a slew of tenants who’ve been ordered out of their homes because of asbestos contamination. The scope of the asbestos […]

Source: https://windsorstar.com/, December 5, 2019 By: Dave Battagello A shoreline property in Detroit listed for decades by the U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency as a contaminated site due to its use of uranium and other dangerous chemicals during manufacturing dating back to the 1940s has partially collapsed into the Detroit River. The […]

Source: The New York Times, December 4, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ For nearly a century, a copper smelter near Butte, Mont., processed ore and released lethal chemicals into the environment, including, according to court records, as much as 62 tons of arsenic and 10 tons of lead each day. In 1983, a few years after […]

Source: https://www.benningtonbanner.com/, December 3, 2019 By: Jim Therrien There is a “settlement conference” scheduled for Jan. 21 in the suit filed by town residents against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics over PFOA contamination, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a resolution is imminent. That also doesn’t mean the class-action suit filed in U.S. District Court in May 2016 […]

Source: https://sanjosespotlight.com/, December 2, 2019 By: Elizabeth Mendez As a famous actor took center stage during a Capitol Hill hearing last month to demand stricter regulations of ‘forever chemicals’ in water, a longtime San Jose water company revealed that it has tested positive for those contaminants. The news comes as California water officials this year began […]

Source: https://www.cnn.com/, November 27, 2019 By: Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton An explosion rocked a chemical plant early Wednesday in Texas, causing extensive damage across the small city of Port Neches and leaving at least three employees injured. A chemical fire continues to burn at the site, and a mandatory evacuation order has been issued […]