Source: https://bangordailynews.com, August 29, 2017 By: Deborah McDermott The York Board of Selectmen have agreed to pay for a detailed assessment of the Maine Department of Transportation facility on Route 1, after an engineer hired by the town said there are too many unanswered questions about what lies underground for the town to move forward […]

Source: https://www.tapinto.net, August 29, 2017 By: Jack Murtha Workers began cleaning up the former site of the Ferren Mall and parking deck this week near downtown New Brunswick, according to Middlesex County. The move represents yet another step toward the property’s future. While which tenants and what exactly will occupy the site remain unclear, it’s poised to […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, August 30, 2017 By: Garret Ellison Toxic chemicals from industrial waste dumped in unlined trenches at a long-forgotten landfill have turned up this year in private residential drinking water wells north of Grand Rapids, and public health officials worry the contamination may have been occurring unnoticed for decades. Wolverine World Wide, a global shoe […]

Source: http://napavalleyregister.com, August 23, 2017 By: Bruce Sackrison Most business insurance policies exclude pollution — and most business owners don’t know this. For this last article in a series, I could have called “weird liability coverage” we’ll look at a liability risk and coverage that is seldom talked about. Even if you don’t own an […]

Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com, August 18, 2017 By: Luke Broadwater Baltimore officials agreed this week to pay $3.9 million to help clean up hazardous pollution from a dump site in East Baltimore. The Board of Estimates, which is controlled by Mayor Catherine Pugh, voted Wednesday to enter into a consent decree with the federal government and state […]

Source: http://www.gazettetimes.com, August 28, 2017 By: Bennett Hall With the initial cleanup completed, workers are preparing to remove contaminated soil from the site of an oil spill that dumped an undetermined amount of pollution into the Willamette River in downtown Corvallis last week. Between 50 and 75 gallons of used motor oil was released Wednesday […]

Source: http://www.greenvilleonline.com, August 22, 2017 By: Judith Bainbridge For six months in 1986, four Greenville News reporters researched, investigated and interviewed experts and local citizens alike in order to write a six-week series on PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) contamination in the waterways of Pickens County. Suspected of causing cancer in humans, the major symptoms of PCB poisoning are […]

Source: http://billingsgazette.com, August 15, 2017 By: Tom Lutey Talen Energy has put a $138 million price tag on capping Colstrip Power Plant’s toxic coal ash ponds. The co-owner and operator of the southeast Montana coal-fired power plant submitted the required estimates earlier this month to the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. Capping the ash ponds […]

Source: http://www.advisen.com, August 16, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A lawsuit has been filed against King Spa in Dallas by two people who say they contracted Legionnaires’ disease after visiting the 24-hour Korean spa. Adam Flores, who visited the spa on Feb. 16, and Stacey DeLeon, who visited on March 28, both developed serious respiratory issues […]

Source: Houston Chronicle, August 15, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Heavy rain may have softened the environmental blow of a large wastewater spill in the Delaware River near West Texas oil fields earlier this month, officials say. Before dawn on Aug. 1, a few miles south of the Texas border with New Mexico, an over-pressured flow […]

Source: http://www.willitsnews.com, August 8, 2017 By: Ariel Carmona Jr. A state funded grant program designed to allow agencies to tackle projects addressing potential harm to human health and safety caused by surface groundwater contamination will be partly used to help clean up the former Redwood Empire Cleaners property, according to a spokesperson for the North […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, August 9, 2017 By: Patricia L. Boye-Williams, Murtha Cullina LLP Owners, lessors, lessees, and developers of retail and other commercial properties are often unaware of the scope of environmental laws that apply to their businesses and/or properties. Unfortunately, they often become aware that they have failed to register for a required permit or […]