Source: https://www.newsday.com, March 26, 2018 By: Vera Chinese A Wainscott homeowner is suing several chemical manufacturers and East Hampton Town over contamination of private wells near East Hampton Airport. The town had permitted local fire departments to use the airport for drills using aqueous film-forming foam, which is believed to contain perfluorooctanoic acid and/or perfluorooctanesulfonic […]

Source: https://www.enr.com, March 19, 2018 Miami Herald Two days after the last body was removed from a collapsed bridge near FIU, the first civil lawsuit stemming from the tragedy has been filed — and it alleges reckless negligence on the part of the companies that did design and construction. Marquise Rashaad Hepburn , who lives […]

Source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com, November 14, 2017 By: Alex Stuckey More than two months after Hurricane Harvey inundated the Houston area, three wastewater treatment facilities in Harris County remain inoperable with more than $1 million in damages, as officials struggle to find solutions to get them back online. The heavily damaged Cedar Bayou Park Wastewater Treatment plant […]

Source: http://www.kallanishenergy.com, March 14, 2018 Three petroleum giants have agreed to pay the state of New Jersey $196.5 million to resolve their liability in a pollution case caused by a gasoline additive known as methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), Kallanish Energy reports. Sunoco has already paid New Jersey $64 million to resolve its liability for MTBE damages. BP […]

Source: https://signalscv.com, March 9, 2018 By: Perry Smith The cleanup of close to 1,000 acres of contaminated soil at Whittaker-Bermite is still on track to wrap up by year’s end, with just a dozen isolated pockets needing particular attention, according to the cleanup efforts’ engineers. “I am very happy to tell you that by the […]

Source: https://www.sfgate.com, March 8, 2018 California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley and other prosecutors announced today that a judge has ordered Home Depot USA to pay $27.84 million for unlawfully disposing hazardous wastes. The settlement, which was ordered by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Brad Seligman, also resolves allegations that […]

Read here about a tractor trailer accident in western Pennsylvania that involved a spill of the hydrochloric acid.

Source: https://www.newsday.com, March 5, 2018 By: Angelique D’Allessandro The Environmental Protection Agency is implementing a cleanup plan to decontaminate groundwater in old Roosevelt Field, officials said. The project is estimated to cost $13.5 million and was put into place after groundwater tested positive for potentially harmful chemicals, such as tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene. Both chemicals have […]

Source: https://www.paloaltoonline.com, March 1, 2018 By: Sue Dremann Stanford University officials have filed a federal lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Company and its successors Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., and Agilent Technologies for years of contamination of its property with hazardous PCBs and TCE, according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, […]

Source: Fayetteville Observer (NC), February 22, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Dozens of residents who live near a Bladen County plant that manufactures a potentially cancer causing compound filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the company and its predecessor. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court by lawyers in Asheville and Dallas on behalf of […]

Source: http://www.wjhg.com, February 19, 2018 By: Jennifer Holton It’s a troubling claim— a recently released report from ProPublica.org is pointing the finger at Tyndall Air Force Base for decades of procrastination involving pollution at more than 100 sites. One includes the base’s elementary school. Years before it was an Air Force base, part of Tyndall’s […]

Source: https://www.news5cleveland.com, February 19, 2018 By: Jordan Vandenberge Fluorescent Recycling Inc., a Cleveland-area recycling company, continued to defy state and local orders for years by illegally housing millions of mercury-laden fluorescent light bulbs, according to records obtained by News 5. The building where Fluorescent Recycling once operated, a massive industrial building that borders Neville and […]