Source: http://wspa.com, October 26, 2016 By: Diane Lee The mold problem at the Spartanburg County Courthouse is not over. That’s the concern of the Clerk of Court, who says employees are worried the remediation has not cleaned up all the mold. The remediation was supposed to have wrapped up in late September, but just last […]

Source: http://www.kpvi.com, October 26, 2016 The state’s department of environmental equality wants Bannock County to investigate increasing ground water contamination at the Fort Hall Mine Landfill. It’s a problem the county has been dealing with for about 25 years. But Idaho’s Department of Environmental Quality wants to tackle the rising contamination problem as early as […]

By: Jefferey S. Lejfer, CPCU, Chief Executive Officer, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC I’m about to celebrate my 42nd year in the insurance industry.  In that time I have seen quite a few ups and downs.  Anecdotally it seems that we are in a constant state of a “down” market with rate erosion and increased […]

Source: http://www.marinij.com, October 21, 2016 By:   Richard Halstead Forty loads of contaminated soil must be trucked out of San Anselmo because the earth beneath a commercial property along the Ross border contains toxic chemicals, state authorities said. The groundwater also will have to be treated at the .32-acre parcel at 4 and 8 Bolinas Ave. […]

Source: http://thedailynews.cc, October 20, 2016 By: Elisabeth Waldon The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is working to fix contamination from leaking storage tanks underground at a former gas station. The property at 15350 W. Howard City-Edmore Road (M-46) sits on two long neglected acres in Winfield Township, better known as Amble. The property went into […]

Source: http://www.fox4news.com, October 20, 2016 By: Lori Brown,Vicki Chen A FOX 4 Investigation has uncovered that Dallas ISD’s newest school is built on contaminated land. The contamination at Jose “Joe” May Elementary School in Northwest Dallas is serious enough that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has stepped in to oversee cleanup of the […]

Source: http://www.stltoday.com, October 20, 2016 By: Bryce Gray A letter from Missouri Department of Natural Resource officials has outlined numerous sources of groundwater contamination at Bridgeton Landfill and has requested that the site’s operator, Republic Services, pursue “corrective measures” to mitigate the impact of an underground fire smoldering within the landfill, while continuing environmental monitoring efforts. Based […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, October 19, 2016 New York is offering free blood tests for residents of a Hudson Valley city where the water supply was contaminated with a toxic chemical in fire-fighting foam used at a nearby Air National Guard base. State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker announced Monday that testing in Newburgh will begin on Nov. […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, October 18, 2016 By: Garret Ellison A Novi-based gas station operator must reimburse the state $100,000 and submit detailed cleanup plans for 21 sites where leaking fuel storage tanks are or threatening to pollute soil and groundwater. The judicial consent order announced this week by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality gives Knight […]

Source: http://www.thetimesherald.com, October 17, 2016 By: Liz Shepard A Port Huron gas station is making progress in removing soil contaminated by leaking underground storage tanks. “They’ve been very cooperative, they really have,” Paul Owens, DEQ district supervisor for the remediation and redevelopment division, said of the Sunrise Convenience Stores. “They’re working with us, we’ve had […]

Source: http://www.boiseweekly.com, October 13, 2016 By: Annelise Eagleton A new report from the environmental watchdog group EWG asserts too many of America’s children could be exposed to toxic chemicals in thousands of U.S. schools. The report, The ABC’s of PCBs, authored by Harvard University professor Dr. Robert Herrick, concluded that as many as 26,000 U.S. schools […]

Source: http://www.reporternewspapers.net, October 14, 2016 By: John Ruch A possible buyer for North Springs Center at 7300 Roswell Road is working on a pollution cleanup deal that could speed the 9-acre shopping center’s redevelopment, according to the state Environmental Protection Division. The shopping center’s owner, North Springs Associates, has been working for a year to […]