Source: https://www.isssource.com, March 11, 2019 Two demolition workers remain in intensive care in critical condition after a spill of a hazardous chemical at a former factory off Jefferson Road in Henrietta, NY. Crews were called around 9:20 Monday morning to the Amesbury Truth building for a report of a chemical leak. Five people ended up […]

Source: https://www.timesgazette.com, March 13, 2019 By: David Wright Adient employee exposed to TDI in Greenfield A male employee of Adient in Greenfield was transported to the hospital Wednesday morning with non-life-threatening injuries after being exposed to TDI in a chemical spill, authorities said. There was no reported hazard to the public after the spill, in […]

Source: https://www.ishn.com, April 3, 2019 A fire at a Houston chemical plant yesterday morning killed one person, left two with critical injuries and caused residents living within a mile of the facility to shelter in place. It is unclear whether the victims were employees at the plant. News sources say the incident at KMCO plant […]

Source: http://dailybruin.com, April 17., 2019 By: Isabella Fortier One student sustained minor injuries in a chemical explosion Tuesday night. The Molecular Sciences Building was closed for the night after a chemical explosion occurred around 8 p.m., according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. LAFD crews responded to the incident and rinsed the student to prevent […]

Source: https://www.philly.com, April 29, 2019 By: Frank Kummer A Pennsylvania environmental board has essentially scrapped two state actions that would have paved the way for developer Brian O’Neill to build housing on a contaminated Chester County site. The ruling on Friday appears to be a major setback for Constitution Drive Partners, a limited partnership involving […]

Source: http://www.newsminer.com, April 30, 2019 By: Sam Friedman The Fairbanks city government announced Monday that it has filed a lawsuit against two companies whose products polluted groundwater around the city’s fire training center. The suit seeks at least $4.3 million from manufactures to recoup costs the city has spent cleaning up the site and providing clean drinking […]

Source: https://wfpl.org, April 26, 2019 By: Ryan Van Velzer One of the oldest federally-recognized hazardous waste sites is right here in Louisville. And more than 20 years after the government declared it was no longer a top priority, the site is still contaminating groundwater flowing into the Ohio River, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. […]

Source: https://ny.curbed.com, April 26, 2019 By: Caroline Spivack A privately-owned East Fourth Street building is the latest in the area where tenants suffered lead exposure An East Village apartment building owned by a Hollywood accountant tested for abnormally high levels of lead, after renovations caused dust to coat spaces throughout the six-story building—exposing tenants, including […]

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 […]