Source: https://mibiz.com, March 17, 2019 By: Matt Gryczan Michigan needs to buckle up for a long, long ride on the PFAS rollercoaster. If history is any guide, coming up with workable solutions to PFAS contamination around the state is going to take decades of painstaking work, billions of dollars and many awkward dances of cooperation […]

Source: https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com, March 18, 2019 By: Michelle Brunetti The Atlantic City Municipal Utilities Authority faces more than $20 million in costs to comply with updated state drinking regulations on a new class of chemical, said ACMUA Executive Director G. Bruce Ward. Ward said he will not raise water rates to cover the additional costs, but […]

Source: https://www.wtrf.com, March 18, 2019 By: Royce Jones Residents in Paden City, Wetzel County are no longer using the city’s water. According to test results by the West Virginia Environmental Protection Agency, the water is contaminated with a chemical substance commonly used at dry cleaners. The Paden City Water Department which services nearly 1300 customers […]

Source: https://www.wcax.com, March 15, 2019 The Vermont Attorney General’s office has reached a $3.8 million settlement in an environmental case against two dozen oil companies over the gasoline additive MTBE. The additive was introduced in the 1970s as a way to reduce air pollution. But leaks of underground gas tanks caused contamination of private and […]

Source: https://newschannel9.com, March 15, 22019 By: Shannen Sharpe The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirmed asbestos at the site of the old R.L. Stowe yarn mill in Lupton City. The property has long been an eyesore and a major complaint for people living in that part of Chattanooga for years. The former yarn mill was once […]

Source: https://www.newsweek.com, March 13, 2019 By: Anna Gibbs Parents in Ripon, California say a cell phone tower in a local schoolyard is to blame for the cancer diagnoses of four students in the last three years. The tower, which is located at Weston Elementary, is the same as others scattered throughout the town. However, one […]

Source: https://stateimpact.npr.org, March 11, 2019 By: Reid Frazier Alabama company has until 2033 to plug wells or put them back into production The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced it reached an agreement with an Alabama company over the costs of plugging 1,400 abandoned conventional oil and gas wells in the state. The agreement requires the company […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com, March 12, 2019 Are you in a case where an on-site and off-site groundwater plume of dry-cleaning solution (perchloroethylene or PCE) or other hazardous substance is intersected by sewers through which the used and disposed solution flowed?  If so, the case of Mission Linen Supply v. City of Visalia (2019 WL 446358) bears your close […]

Source: https://www.philly.com, March 7, 2019 By: Frank Kummer New Jersey’s attorney general filed suit Thursday against ExxonMobil, claiming the company contaminated the ground, water, and wetlands at its Paulsboro, Gloucester County, property with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and needs to pay an unspecified amount for environmental damage from the industrial chemicals. Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal […]

Source: https://koaa.com, March 8, 2019 by: Benjamin Lloyd A multi-million dollar lawsuit has been filed against the federal government because of groundwater contamination from the use of firefighting foam at Peterson Air Force Base. Both the Security Water District and Pikes Peak Community Foundation, which controls Venetucci Farms on the south end of Colorado Springs, seek $17-million in damages in […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, March 11, 2019 By: Emery P. Dalesio Smithfield Foods was found responsible Friday for a fifth time for nuisances neighbors suffered from waste generated by thousands of the company’s hogs. Jurors determined the pork giant should pay $420,000 after four previous juries awarded nearly $550 million in penalties. Most of the damages awarded were […]

Source: http://www.therepublic.com, March 10, 2019 By: Julie McClure Soil borings at a Jackson Street property the Columbus parks department hopes to purchase as a storage building show chemical contamination in soil and groundwater by substances that could have leaked from underground storage tanks there. Columbus parks director Mark Jones said parks officials continue to examine […]