Source: https://www.freep.com, April 25, 2019 By: Keith Matheny These once-common chemicals are linked to cancer and a host of other ailments. And they may be tainting more than 11,000 sites around Michigan. Sandy Wynn-Stelt knows it’s too late for herself. The chemicals she drank for perhaps 25 years out of her tap — the ones that […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com, April 23, 2019 By: Garret Ellison In a class action lawsuit filing, Georgia-Pacific is pointing the finger at Michigan regulators and several businesses it says may be at fault for the Parchment water contamination emergency, which affected 3,000 people and has since forced the suburban city to hand its municipal system over to neighboring […]

Source: https://www.ehstoday.com, April 23, 2019 By: David L. Elkind, Anderson Kill P.C. Almost any manufacturer can face environmental liability. The liability may stem from the nature of the product being manufactured, but it also may derive from chemicals used to clean the manufacturing equipment, changes made to the product after it leaves the manufacturer’s hands—or, […]

Source: https://www.detroitnews.com, April 18, 2019 By: Leonard N. Fleming Some of the nation’s high-profile environmental law firms, along with Michigan-based ones, are waging legal battles related to PFAS contamination in the state after decades of waste dumping by a popular shoe manufacturer that has seeped into private wells. The civil lawsuits over per- and polyfluoroalkyl […]

Source: https://www.nola.com, April 22, 2019 A broken flange on a pipe is believed to be the cause of a spill of 3,600 gallons of sulfuric acid that occurred at the Cornerstone Chemical Co.facility at Waggaman on April 11, according to a state environmental official. The spill was reported by Cornerstone to both the Coast Guard National […]

Source: https://www.inforum.com, February 22, 2019 By: Phoenix Bauer Three individuals have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease after visiting a hotel water park in Casselton, according to a release by the North Dakota Department of Health. The release states that the three people were diagnosed between July 2018 and January 2019 and all used the water […]

Source: https://www.wwaytv3.com, April 19, 2019 The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Honeywell International Inc., and International Paper Co., for cleanup of contaminated soils and sediments at the LCP-Holtrachem plant in Riegelwood. The United States brought its action under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), […]

Source: https://www.courthousenews.com, April 22, 2019 By: Kevin Lessmiller The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether three Citgo-affiliated companies must pay most of the $100 million-plus bill for cleaning up a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River. The oil tanker Athos, laden with Venezuelan crude, was only inches from docking at a port in New Jersey […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com, April 21, 2019 By: Kim Slowey Dive Brief: The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation cited Legoland New York’s owner and contractors with 22 new violations this month in an effort to prevent continuing discharge of construction runoff from the $500 million project into local waterways, the Tribune Herald-Record reported. The total fines attached […]

Source: https://www.sacbee.com, April 17, 2019 By: Wes Venteicher Water tests discovered legionella throughout a state prison in Stockton, showing the bacteria found in a dead inmate last month is more widespread than was previously known, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation email sent to staff Tuesday. The inmate, whom the department hasn’t […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, March 16, 2019 By: John B. King, Breazeale Sachse & Wilson LLP Due diligence conducted when acquiring assets in a commercial transaction, whether the assets include property with existing operating facilities or undeveloped property on which a facility is to be constructed, is absolutely essential to ensuring the property does not contain unknown […]

Source: https://axaxl.com/fast-fast-forward, April 1, 2019 By: Angela Guitar, Head of Global Excess Casualty Claims, AXA XL Every day, at least nine Americans die and hundreds are injured in distracted driving crashes. That’s why April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, an effort to raise awareness about distracted driving risks and encourage individuals to adopt safer driving. #JustDrive Auto […]