Source: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com, September 17, 2019 By: Gabrielle Masson Health officials on Sept. 12 confirmed two additional Legionnaires’ cases in the surrounding community of a Batavia, Ill.-based senior living home, which reported 12 cases in late August, according to the Daily Herald. Officials are warning residents of Covenant Living at the Holmstad and those living within a […]

Source: https://www.newstrib.com, September 16, 2019 A local manufacturer will pay a penalty of $850,000 stemming from a pollution incident in 2014. Friday, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced his office reached a consent order with chemical manufacturer Flint Hills Resources in Peru that addresses a lawsuit filed in May 2014 by then Attorney General Lisa […]

Source: https://www.bendbulletin.com, September 17, 2019 By: Michael Kohn The supply of drinking water at the Oregon National Guard Youth Challenge Program on Dodds Road near Bend, as well as nine other national guard facilities in Oregon, contains toxic fluorinated chemicals, according to data released by a Washington, D.C.-based environmental organization. While the levels of PFAS […]

Source: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org, September 18, 2019 By: Greg Barnes Near the end of a congressional hearing last week, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz grilled executives of the 3M, DuPont and Chemours chemical companies about their willingness to compensate people harmed by fluorinated compounds. The hearing, before a U.S. House subcommittee on environmental oversight and reform, was the third […]

Source: Daily Camera (Boulder, CO), September 17, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com Golden-based Stratus Redtail Ranch, LLC recently filed a lawsuit against New York-based IBM Corp. for what it terms improper disposal of hazardous substances at a housing development site near Erie. The site, about 2 miles southeast of Erie, is part of a 290-acre parcel […]

Source: https://www.bellinghamherald.com, September 12, 2019 By Tara Copp The price tag to clean up contaminated water sources at all military installations is likely to climb higher than the $2 billion original cost estimate, the Pentagon said Thursday. Defense Secretary Mark Esper in July directed the Pentagon to establish a task force to not only look […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com, September 11, 2019 By: Emily Holden Chemical company executives have denied responsibility for a category of toxic fluorinated chemicals that have contaminated water supplies around the US and are now found in the bodies of nearly all Americans. Three companies – the 3M Company, the Chemours Company and DuPont – appeared before US […]

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com, September 12, 2019 By: Ben Kesslen A 47-year-old California woman has been in a semi-comatose state for weeks after using a Ponds-labeled skin cream tainted with methylmercury. It is the first reported case of methylmercury poisoning from a skin cream in the U.S, Sacramento County health officials said. Read more.

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, September 11, 2019 By: Andrew N. Davis, Matthew Ranelli, Aaron D. Levy, Alfredo G. Fernández and Kristie A. Beahm, Shipman & Goodwin LLP Any issue that poses the potential for health risks and/or liabilities associated with uncertain regulatory requirements demands corporate attention. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”), a group of human-made chemicals, have […]

Source: https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com, September 8, 2019 By: Kyle Bagenstose It’s been five years since the military first discovered widespread PFAS contamination at bases in the Philadelphia suburbs, but the chemicals continue to pollute the aquifer and waterways. We asked more than half a dozen experts a simple question: Why? Read more.

Source: https://www.thebatavian.com, September 6, 2019 By: Howard B. Owens Federal and state environmental agencies are continuing to monitor and work on cleanup of contaminants at the Lehigh Train Derailment Superfund Site off of Gulf Road, according to information obtained by The Batavian. The elimination of TCE contaminants from groundwater in the four-mile-long plume area, which stretches […]

Source: https://www.newsday.com, September 5, 2019 By: Bart Jones Four Coast Guard families living at the Northport base say they have been ordered to leave their housing because of lead contamination, but the Coast Guard isn’t doing enough to help them get out. Read more.