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 […]

Source: https://www.timesdaily.com, March 10, 2019 By: Eric Fleischauer Extensive ongoing efforts by 3M Co. to deal with chemicals once disposed of in Decatur and Lawrence County included the erection of a privacy fence last week around property it purchased recently that is contaminated by its own chemical waste. Lawrence County resident Beth McCarley said hiding the […]

Source: http://southtahoenow.com, March 7, 2019 With a 400 acre plume of tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in some of the South Lake Tahoe groundwater, agencies tasked with protecting the local drinking supply updated the community on cleanup efforts and the status of the plume Wednesday evening. Authorities originally identified the chemical entered the groundwater at the site of […]

Source: Winston-Salem Journal (NC), March 7, 2019 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Pete Overby says he’s resigned to the reality his beloved Dan River will never flow pristine again. Overby feels his grandson will never be safe from pollution swimming in the river he enjoyed as a child. And after the 2014 coal ash spill at Duke […]

Source: https://ny.curbed.com, March 6, 2019 By: Caroline Spivack “Who wants their children to run around next to where they’re pulling mercury out of the ground?” Parents at the Peck Slip elementary school are considering pulling their children from the sought after public school in anticipation of a developer’s plans to cleanup chemicals that have leaked […]

Source: https://www.krqe.com, March 5, 2019 The New Mexico Environment Department and the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General have filed a lawsuit against the Air Force to compel officials to address the contamination caused by the discharge of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances at Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases.  “In the absence of cooperation by the Air Force, the […]