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 […]

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 […]