Source: http://www.times-standard.com, February 17, 2017 By: RUTh Schneider What started out as a very contentious situation has morphed into something more collaborative. That’s how North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board engineering geologist Dave Parson portrays the situation at the former site of Norman’s Dry Cleaners in Henderson Center in Eureka. “It’s quite a success […]

Source: http://www.ecowatch.com, February 18, 2017 By: Lorraine Chow Monsanto may be looking forward to turning a new leaf with its potential $66 billion mega-merger with Bayer AG, but the agrochemical giant just can’t shake its notorious past as the primary manufacturer of highly toxic and banned substances called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, that were once […]

Source: http://www.startribune.com, February 16, 2017 By: Erin Adler Cleanup of the closed Burnsville site could cost $64 million. Nearly 200 businesses, cities and school districts got letters from the federal government this week informing them that they “may be liable” to pay for the cleanup of the Freeway Landfill in Burnsville, which has been estimated […]

Source: http://webwire.com, February 16, 2017 LA Testing provides analytical services and sampling supplies to help detect Legionella outbreaks. A resident from a California nursing home tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease. A local news station reported that the facility shut off access to the water supply under the direction of state and local health officials as […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 14, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The family of a Pittsburgh man who died in October after contracting a fungal infection while he was a cancer patient at UPMC Shadyside filed a lawsuit today alleging negligence by UPMC and the company that washes all of UPMC’s laundry, Paris Cleaners Inc. The lawsuit […]

Source: http://www.twcnews.com, February 10,2017 By: Geoff Redick The small Rensselaer County village rocked by a contaminated water crisis in 2016 is now facing the spectre of more chemicals, this time found in the village’s air. The news, published Thursday evening on the village website, comes from Honeywell International, a company that once operated a factory […]

Source: http://www.theintell.com, February 10, 2017 By: Kyle Bagenstose A tanker truck that overturned on state Route 611 in Warrington on Thursday night spilled at least 4,000 gallons of gasoline into a storm drain, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said Friday morning. The incident snarled morning rush-hour traffic Friday, and northbound 611 between Valley Square […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 7, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The Butler Area School District put Summit Elementary School students at serious risk by concealing for months that its water supply contained dangerous amounts of lead, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit comes two days after Superintendent Dale Lumley, who also is named […]

Source: http://www.recordonline.com, February 3, 2017 By: Michael Randall The current owner of the former Star Expansion factory will undertake an investigation to determine the current status of pollutants at the state Superfund site. The state Department of Environmental Conservation says the investigation will look for things like groundwater contamination, concentrations of metal in the soil, […]

Source; http://newyork.cbslocal.com, February 3, 2017 The safety of a backyard or a vegetable garden is now in question for thousands of homeowners in Carteret who’ve been told their properties are contaminated. As CBS2’s Meg Baker reported, they are now suing. Residents of the industrial town started receiving letters from the U.S. Metals Co. a few […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, February 3, 2017 By: Andrea Wells With “smart” building becoming the gold standard in today’s commercial construction world, builders, building owners, workers and insurers are dealing with new technologies and risks. These smart technologies — from high tech gadgets aimed at increasing building efficiencies to wearable devices aimed at improving safety — are […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA), February 1, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A health care laundry oversight group that accredited the linen vendor embroiled in two wrongful death lawsuits connected to the UPMC mold crisis said Tuesday that its standards are extensive and rigorous. “Those standards deal with processing health care laundry in the safest manner possible […]