Source: https://nypost.com, July 28, 2019 As news keeps breaking of unbelievable bungling at the city Housing Authority, the city’s still waiting for the guy who’s supposed to lead the turnaround. Increasingly, it looks like Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to accept a federal monitor, and so oust acting NYCHA chief Stanley Brezenoff, was a net […]

Source: https://www.nhpr.org, July 18, 2019 By: Annie Ropeik New Hampshire on Thursday adopted the country’s most sweeping limits for PFAS chemical contamination in drinking water. The strict standards won approval from the state legislature’s administrative rules committee, along roughly party lines. It makes New Hampshire the first state to require local water systems, landfills and wastewater plants […]

Source: https://www.messenger-inquirer.com, July 28, 2019 By: Jef Feeley and Tim Loh Bloomberg The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer inherited last year when it acquired Monsanto Co. While thousands of damage claims over Roundup have grabbed headlines and hogged the attention of investors, the German conglomerate also has […]

Source: July 29, 2019 By: Jon Hurdle Advocates claim links between illness and chemical contamination as companies feud over who would pay to clean soil and water In the South Jersey town of Carneys Point, Dr. Mohamed Salem recalled a patient who came to him about a year ago with unexplained symptoms of fatigue and […]

Source: Business Insider, July 28, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com The chemical class known as PFAS became popular in the US around the 1940s when manufacturing companies realized they resist heat, grease, stains, and water. Today, PFAS are considered toxic and have been linked to cancer, liver damage, thyroid disease, and developmental issues. At a congressional hearing on July […]

Source: State (Columbia, SC), July 25, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com Energy giant ExxonMobil has agreed to pay federal and state agencies $6.6 million to settle a lawsuit over pollution that killed marine life and degraded salt marshes in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. Old fertilizer plant sites the company acquired two decades ago released a cocktail of […]

Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com, July 26, 2019 By: Harriet Washington Monsanto Industrial Chemicals admitted to poisoning residents of Anniston, Alabama with PCBs. Years after a settlement, people are still sick. An excerpt from Harriet Washington’s A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind. Shirley Baker, a nurse, deftly ties on a surgical mask […]

Source: https://www.macon.com, July 24, 2019 By: Tara Copp The Pentagon is launching a task force to look at the potential impact and dangers that chemical compounds used in military firefighting foam have had on military bases and the families who live there, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced on his first day in office. Per-and polyfluoroalkyl […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, July 24, 2019 By: Jef Feeley and Tim Loh The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer AG inherited last year when it acquired Monsanto Co. While thousands of damage claims over Roundup have grabbed headlines and hogged the attention of investors, the German conglomerate also has […]

Source: https://www.nola.com, July 17, 2019 By: Chad Calder The National World War II Museum has sued the structural engineer of its eight-story hotel under construction downtown, saying some of the steel beams used were too short and unable to handle the weight of the building. The lawsuit says mistakes made by subcontractor DeSimone Consulting Engineering […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, July 22, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com Bayer AG, the German pharmaceuticals and chemicals group battling legal claims over its Roundup herbicide, said Monday it would sell its Dr. Scholl’s foot-care business to Yellow Wood Partners for $585 million. The unit is one of a series of assets Bayer marked for […]

Source: Water Policy Report, July 22, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com Two Northeastern states are pushing ahead to respond to the growing public concern over the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), adding to the number of states unwilling to wait for EPA regulatory action. In the latest move, New York last week announced it […]