Source: http://www.annistonstar.com, September 23, 2016 By: Zach Tyler The Alabama Department of Environmental Management on Friday announced a New Jersey-based company has filed a plan to clean up the remaining residue of an underground gasoline leak at an Oxford convenience store. The cleanup and monitoring of earth beneath the Texaco-branded Expressmart may continue for the […]

Source: http://www.dailyuw.com, September 26, 2016 By: Brendan Gerrity Following four infections and two deaths at the hospital’s Cascade Tower, the UW Medical Center (UWMC) has been straining to recover from and prevent further infections by the Legionella bacterium. The bacteria, which causes Legionnaires’ disease (a form of pneumonia), has so far been found in a […]

Source: http://www.denverpost.com, September 23, 2016 By: Kirk Mitchell Class-action certification sought by residents of Fountain, Security and Colorado Springs Nine residents of Fountain, Security and Colorado Springs with elevated levels of cancer-causing chemicals in their blood have sued The 3M Corporation and various manufacturers that produced and sold firefighting foams they claim has leached cancer-causing […]

Source: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org, September 24, 2016 By: Lisa Sorg For more than 10 years, it has been forbidden to eat a single fish from Brier Creek Reservoir in Wake County. Areas downstream, such as Brier Creek and Little Brier Creek, were also off-limits. That prohibition extended for nearly 30 miles southwest, to Crabtree Creek, Lake Crabtree, […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 21, 2016 By: Laurie J. Sands, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP In a recent case, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection v. Trainer Custom Chemical, —- F. Supp. 3rd — (2016), 2016 WL 4525451, the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that a current owner of […]

Source: http://news.wabe.org, September 21, 2016 By: Molly Samuel In Alabama, the clean-up near the Cahaba River south of Birmingham continues, following the pipeline leak that lead to Atlanta’s gas shortage. The effects on the environmentally-sensitive area could have been worse, said David Butler, riverkeeper of the Cahaba Riverkeeper organization. Most of the hundreds of thousands […]

Source: http://www.renewalredevelopment.com, August 2016 By: Kasey Jones As urban revitalization proceeds at a steady pace and construction prices continue to escalate in cities where vacant parcels are all but nonexistent, many property owners and developers are finding that substantial profits can be made through major renovations of existing buildings. Renovation starts in some cities are […]

Source: http://www.philly.com, September 20, 2016 By: Jan Hefler The New Jersey Supreme Court has denied an appeal filed to force two government agencies to contribute to a medical-monitoring fund for the nearly 100 children who were exposed to toxic mercury vapors at their day-care center, Kiddie Kollege, more than a decade ago. The court last […]

Source: http://www.browndailyherald.com, September 20, 2016 By: Kyle Borowski Oxygenating chemical MTBE, discovered in water, makes supply undrinkable The state of Rhode Island filed suit against 34 oil-producing companies Sept. 6, arguing that the entities contributed to extensive contamination of the chemical MTBE — methyl tertiary butyl ether — in groundwater across the state. MTBE is […]

Source: http://www.seattletimes.com, September 19, 2016 By: JoNel Aleccia Bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease have been detected in University of Washington Medical Center devices used to heat and cool patients during heart surgery, the same type of machines linked to different types of deadly outbreaks in other hospitals. Three so-called heater-cooler units, devices used during surgery […]

Source: http://www.kansas.com, September 13,2 016 By: Gabriella Dunn Helen and Bob Harrison have lived in their west Wichita home for 36 years and are now finding out that they’ve been drinking, cooking, bathing and washing their clothes in water contaminated with dry cleaning chemicals. They don’t know how long their well water has been contaminated […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 9, 2016 By: Heidi Hudson Raschke, Carlton Fields A recent article in the Sports section of The Miami Herald read “Shooting coach helps Winslow.” Perhaps, but it probably didn’t help the coach much. The admonition to “eat every carrot and pea on your plate” undoubtedly elicits laughs from the children to whom […]