Source: http://www.goblueridge.net, June 23, 2016 By: Bill Fisher AppHealthCare (Appalachian District Health Department) has been notified of three confirmed cases of Legionnaire’s disease in persons who stayed at or visited the Meadowbrook Inn & Suites during the 10 days before illness onset; all were treated and are recovering. AppHealthCare is currently investigating to identify potential […]

Source: Las Vegas Sun, June 22, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Tucked behind the Boulevard mall, the Paradise Palms neighborhood is quiet on a Tuesday afternoon. Except for an occasional rooftop solar array, its mid-century homes appear unchanged since they were built in the shadow of a less developed, more desolate Las Vegas Strip. But as […]

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, June 18, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The city received $20 million Friday from Kinder Morgan, the fuel tank farm operator at Qualcomm Stadium, to settle a nine-year-old lawsuit over underground pollution at the 166-acre Mission Valley site. Half the money is to go to the city’s Public Utilities Department, which owns […]

Source: http://www.grbj.com, June 17, 2016 By: Jesse O’Brien EPA plans further testing after likely dry-cleaning contaminant found. An environmental threat has pushed two nonprofits from their buildings, and that could be just the beginning. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality found high levels of a chemical called tetrachloroethylene, or PERC, at 401 Hall SE, 1168 […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, June 20, 2016 By: Greg Wright State energy companies are currently responsible for up to $1 billion in environmental damages, according to companies’ filings with the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. It’s common practice for companies to recover a portion of the cost of environmental damages by increasing customers’ rates through regulator approved […]

Source: http://legalnewsline.com, June 16, 2016 By: Mark Iandolo The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Cotter Corp. NSL will pay $957,604 in past costs to settle a case where the EPA looked into contamination at Cotter’s uranium mill at the Lincoln Park Superfund site near Cañon City, Colorado. As part of the agreement, Cotter […]

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 20, 2016 By: Justine McDaniel and Laura McCrystal When the planes burned, the kids would come out. Hope Grosse and her siblings would run down their Warminster street and rubberneck amid shrieking sirens. They would watch Navy firefighters shoot a dense white foam from hoses, smothering the flames that leapt […]

Source: http://www.natureworldnews.com, June 16, 2016 By: John Raphael An unscheduled evaluation in the Allegheny General Hospital revealed that two water tanks of the hospital were tested positive for Legionella bacteria, which is known to cause the deadly Legionnaires’ disease. According to the report from CBS Pittsburg, the evaluation was done after a cancer patient was […]

Source: http://www.startribune.com, June 14, 2016 By: Hannah Covington Douglas Corp. ordered to find a solution to PFOS in the lake or face daily fines. A metal-plating company in St. Louis Park must eliminate ongoing pollution that’s contaminating Lake Calhoun and its fish within two years or face daily fines. Last month, Douglas Corp. signed an […]

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com, June 15, 2016 By: Paul Rogers Settling a major lawsuit from environmentalists, San Jose city officials on Tuesday agreed to spend more than $100 million over the next decade and beyond to reduce tons of trash that flows into creeks and San Francisco Bay, repair miles of leaking underground sewage pipes and clean […]

Source: http://www.courthousenews.com, June 13, 2016 By: Elizabeth Warmerdam A defense contractor responsible for cleaning up pollution at a facility where most munitions manufacturing was done under contracts with the U.S. military can seek cost recovery from the government, the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday. Whittaker Corporation manufactured and tested munitions for the government at a facility […]

Source: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com, June 13, 2016 Two cases of Legionnaires’ Disease have forced the closure of a Kauai resort. Wyndham Resorts confirms that it has closed the WorldMark Kapaa Shore Resort as a precaution, after the cases were confirmed by the state Health Department. Guests were moved to other hotels in the area. “Recently, the Kapaa Shore Resort […]