Source: https://bangordailynews.com, March 23, 2019 By: Donna Buttarazzi More than two years after learning drinking water and milk tanks on his 100-year-old Stoneridge Farm were contaminated with a class of chemicals linked to cancer and other health concerns, farmer Fred Stone still can’t sell his milk and is losing hundreds of dollars a day, every […]

Source: http://www.live5news.com, March 25, 2019 Environmental officials in Texas confirm there are dangerous levels of chemicals in the channel waters around Houston after a dike wall collapsed during a re-ignited fire at the chemical plant in Deer Park on Friday. Intercontinental Terminals Co., the company that owns the plant, said flames breached the dyke wall […]

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 23, 2019 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the company in Houston where a fire has been burning throughout the week at a petrochemical storage site. The fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company’s tank farm in Deer Park was extinguished Wednesday but reignited Friday and is […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com, March 21, 2019 Many utilities and other companies that have generated power using coal have historically stored their coal combustion residuals (“CCRs”) [1] in coal ash basins or impoundments. A number of companies have faced allegations of environmental property damage resulting from releases of CCRs out of impoundments and into surrounding bodies of […]

Source: https://www.roanoke.com, July 18, 2018 By: Laurence Hammack An explosion of a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia was triggered by the same conditions — steep slopes prone to landslides — that exist along the route of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a conservation group is warning. Work on the Mountain Valley project, which is cutting […]

Source: New York Times Online, March 21, 2019 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A Texas city ordered residents to take shelter indoors for several hours on Thursday morning for what was the second time in a week as the air quality there worsened after a fire at a petrochemical storage facility. Officials in the city, Deer Park, […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com, March 20, 2019 By: Paula Gardner Michigan residents are already paying to address the state’s PFAS contamination even as officials work to get a handle on the depth of the problem. The price tag to municipalities so far: Millions, with no end in sight as more contaminated locations are identified while debate continues […]

Source: https://www.yorkdispatch.com, March 19, 2019 By: Liz Evans Scolforo A chemical spill near Manchester Township’s industrial park ended up in a stream that leads to the Codorus Creek, county officials said. Crews were dispatched to the intersection of Church Road and Interchange Place about 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 18, after a woman walking her dog noticed a […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, March 19, 2019 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Employers do not often worry about the respiratory illness, Legionnaires Disease, but the occurrences have increased five-fold since 2000, and experts are unsure as to the reasons. OSHA takes Legionnaires Disease seriously and maintains a page on its www.OSHA.gov site. OSHA notes that Legionnaires Disease occurs in certain common workplace […]

Source: Houston Chronicle, March 19, 2019 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Before it was engulfed in flame, a Deer Park chemical facility had a long history of violating state and federal environmental rules. Intercontinental Terminals Company’s (ITC) Deer Park facility violated clean air and clean water rules multiple times since 2009 and was cited for not following […]

Source: https://www.wisfarmer.com, March 19, 2019 Attorney General Josh Kaul announced on March 15, a federal judge has approved a settlement to ensure all future costs related to the decades-long contamination of the Fox River will be paid by the responsible parties. “Generations of Wisconsinites have been affected by the contamination of the Fox River,” said […]

Source: https://www.sfgate.com, March 18, 2019 By: Juan A. Lozano A large fire at a Houston-area petrochemicals terminal will likely burn for another two days, authorities said Monday, noting that air quality around the facility was testing within normal guidelines. The fire erupted Sunday at Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) […]