Source: http://www.myrecordjournal.com, June 22, 2017 By: Jesse Buchanan Final soil testing is underway at the site of a former factory destroyed by fire in 2003. The Town Council approved a $92,000 contract earlier this month with Arcadis, an environmental company, to conduct soil tests in preparation for cleanup work at the Beaton & Corbin property […]

Source: http://kxan.com, June 20, 2017 By: David Barer and Kylie McGivern About 120 city of Austin employees were exposed to asbestos during 2016 airport office renovations, despite some workers voicing concerns that the potentially dangerous building material could cause contamination during construction, a KXAN investigation has uncovered. The exposure happened during February and June 2016 […]

Source: https://www.nytimes.com, June 16, 2017 By: Sarah Maslin Nir One person is dead and six other people have been sickened in an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the city health department announced on Friday. The patients with the bacterial infection, which is typically contracted through contaminated water, fell ill […]

Source: http://www.courthousenews.com, June 13, 2017 By: Adam Klasfeld No longer protected by its deals with California prosecutors, BP and Shell must face another lawsuit alleging that its underground storage tanks continue to pollute Orange County’s groundwater with a toxic gasoline additive. The British and Dutch oil giants were named among the dozens of fossil-fuel companies […]

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com, June 13, 2017 By: John Downey Insurance companies sued by Duke Energy to recover $1 billion-plus in coal-ash contamination costs deny the claims are covered, alleging the Charlotte-based utility company elected to dispose of ash in ways it knew threatened groundwater. “Duke’s ash ponds were built without any provision to prevent the contaminants […]

Source: https://www.dnainfo.com, June 14, 2017 By: Amy Langfield NYC Parks officials need more time — and more money — to clean up the five most contaminated ballfields in Red Hook, community members were told Tuesday night. The city-financed cleanup was previously estimated at $105 million and was expected to be completed by a rolling series […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 13, 2017 Posted: http://www.advisen.com A federal judge has ruled that two insurance companies are required to cover any potential financial losses tied to a lawsuit against the Butler Area School District surrounding lead-tainted drinking water that came from a well at Summit Elementary School. U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab ruled […]

Source: Watertown Daily Times (NY), June 12, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Health officials last week warned of the lurking dangers that Legionnaires’ disease can pose to the water systems of hospitals and other health care facilities. In a recent report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed more than 2,800 cases of Legionnaires’ disease […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, June 13, 2017 By: Mr Van Hilderbrand Jr and Marian C. Hwang Posted on: http://www.advisen.com When Scott Pruitt took over the post as Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he made it clear that one of his top priorities was to expedite cleanups at contaminated sites across the […]

Source: https://www.eenews.net, June 12, 2017 By: Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder Lurking under the surface of the lower 8.3 miles of New Jersey’s Passaic River are blue crabs, fish and tens of thousands of pounds of cancer-causing contaminants. The Passaic is one of the nation’s most polluted rivers. And it’s expected to see one of the costliest cleanups […]

Source: Canton Repository (OH), June 7, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A north-side neighborhood should be a degree safer as federal environmental officials remove hazardous materials from a neglected former industrial site in the 600 block of N. Union Avenue. The cleanup at the former Crest Rubber plant is under authority of the U.S. Environmental Protection […]

Source: UPI Top Stories, June 10, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Two recent guests at Las Vegas’ Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino contracted Legionnaires’ disease, health officials said. The guests who contracted the lung infection stayed separately in March and April at the 2,522-room hotel, the Southern Nevada Health District said Friday. The health district and […]