Source: http://www.environmentalleader.com, June 10, 2016 By: Jessica Lyons Hardcastle The EPA will ask more than 150 companies and other groups to foot the $746 million bill to clean up the Portland Harbor Superfund Site. The proposed plan to remove 65 contaminants along the 10-mile stretch of Oregon’s Willamette River will take 30 years, Oregon Public […]

Source: Charlotte Observer, June 13, 2016 Duke Energy is the target of another lawsuit over its coal ash, this one filed by a nonprofit group that advocates for the Roanoke River basin in northern North Carolina. The Roanoke River Basin Association says Duke’s Mayo power plant in Roxboro, near the Virginia line north of Raleigh, […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, June 9, 2016 Bankrupt coal operator Alpha Natural Resources Inc. has come to terms with West Virginia environmental regulators, and agreed to cover hundreds of millions of dollars worth of reclamation work at its mines. Announced Thursday by West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection, the settlement calls for the agency […]

Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com, June 11, 2016 By: Fatimah Waseem The Lutheran Village at Miller’s Grant, a newly opened retirement community in Ellicott City, will shut off water in three apartment buildings on Sunday after a second resident was diagnosed with Legionnaire’s disease, a severe type of pneumonia. The disease is caused by breathing in small drops […]

Source: Allied World, EnviroScope, July 2015 Introduction Nearly 40 years ago, an outbreak of a pneumonia-like illness during an American Legion Convention in Philadelphia resulted in 34 deaths and first brought national awareness to a primarily water-borne bacterium known as Legionella pneumophila. Shortly thereafter, the term “Legionnaires’ Disease” was coined to define this illness which […]

Source: http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca, June 10, 2016 The British Columbia government said Friday that as of March 31, the province’s forests, lands and natural resource operations department recognized $508 million in pollution-related liabilities related to property managed by the Crown Contaminated Sites Program. The ministry on Friday released the Crown Contaminated Sites Program 2016 Biennial Report. Under […]

Source: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com, June 9, 2016 By: Jess Aloe The possible carcinogen PFOA has been found in water samples from the Vermont Air National Guard base in South Burlington and the Pittsford Fire Academy, Gov. Peter Shumlin announced on Thursday. The contaminated water is not being used for drinking supplies, Shumlin spokesman Scott Coriell said in […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 9, 2016 By: Jeffrey R. Appelbaum, Daniel M. Haymond, Ross C. Eberlein and Bill Thrush, Thompson Hine LLP Key Notes: Contract law protections have softened with time, creating an even greater need for architects and contractors to manage risk Condominium design and construction present unique issues for architects and contractors that can […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, June 8, 2016 By: Tom Perkins Over the winter, the city of Ypsilanti and its environmental consultant, AKT Peerless, tested areas of soil along Water Street in an effort to develop a better of picture of the type and level of contamination remaining on the former industrial property. The move came in response […]

Source: http://www.wastedive.com, June 5, 2016 By: Cole Rosengren Dive Brief: Elevated levels of potentially cancer-causing perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) have been found at the former L.L. & S. Construction and Demolition Debris Landfill in Salem, NH. Acting on a request from the state’s Department of Environmental Services (DES), the federal Environmental Protection Agency conducted groundwater […]

Source: http://www.tctimes.com, June 3, 2016 By: Hannah Ball Remediation process could cost business $380,000 The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) denied Beacon and Bridge’s final assessment concerning the underground gasoline leak that was detected nearly two years ago. Owner of Beacon & Bridge Gas Station in downtown Linden, Quick-Sav Food Stores, Ltd. in Flint, […]

Source: http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com, June 3, 2016 By: Linda Martz An abandoned AP gas station at 128 Lexington Ave. that resulted in multiple complaints to Mansfield’s codes department over the past eight years finally will be torn down. Mayor Tim Theaker announced Friday that the city has been awarded an Ohio Development Services Agency grant of up to $100,000 that will allow the city to start […]