Source: http://news.stanford.edu, February 18, 2016 By: Mark Shwartz Faulty, shallow wells can leak oil and natural gas into underground drinking-water supplies, Stanford Professor Rob Jackson finds. Does living near an oil or natural gas well affect your drinking water? “The answer to the question is usually ‘no,’ but there are exceptions,” according to Rob Jackson, a […]

Source: http://www.cspnet.com, http://www.cspnet.com, February 17, 2016 Court grants request for preliminary injunction SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against the owner of a Lake County gas station over a gasoline leak that caused soil and groundwater contamination and vapors to enter nearby residents’ homes. Madigan’s filed the complaint in […]

Source: http://www.environmentalleader.com, February 17, 2016 By: Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Honeywell and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics must pay to clean up a toxic chemical found in a New York village’s drinking water. The Associated Press reports that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation sent a letter to the two industrial companies demanding that they finance a […]

Source: http://amestrib.com, February 16, 2016 BY; Sarina Rhinehart Clean-up has begun on the former Dairy Queen site in Nevada, where a leaking underground gasoline tank has contaminated soil and groundwater in the area. The building, at 436 E. Lincoln Way, had been a Kerr-McGee Service Station from 1955-82, and the Story County Board of Supervisors […]

Source: http://www.journalnow.com, February 17, 2016 By: Richard Craver A local aircraft maintenance company denies most claims in a lawsuit filed by Piedmont Advantage Credit Union for damages related to “significant environmental contamination” to a nearby building it owns. The credit union filed the lawsuit against Piedmont Hawthorne Aviation LLC, doing business as Landmark Aviation. The […]

Source: http://www.scpr.org, February 17, 2016 By: Elizabeth Aguilera After years of silence, Gov. Jerry Brown Wednesday asked California state lawmakers to spend nearly $177 million for expedited testing and cleanup of lead contamination in communities around the former Exide plant in Vernon. “This Exide battery recycling facility has been a problem for a very long […]

By: Jefferey S. Lejfer, CPCU Chief Executive Officer New Day Underwriting Managers LLC I’ve had the good fortune to be in the property and casualty industry for over 40 years. In that time while I’ve had a limited number of employers I’ve had the experiences of many different positions. Our endeavor at New Day started […]

Source: http://www.pe.com, February 16, 2016 By: Alicia Robinson The former Riverside sewer plant property will have more soil removed, more tests if state approves. A plan for the second cleanup of a contaminated former sewer plant site in Riverside is awaiting state approval in what appears to be an unprecedented situation. Development of homes was […]

Source: http://www.triplepundit.com, February 16, 2016 By: Tina Casey Last summer the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency came out with a draft report on fracking and drinking water contamination that appeared to be a cry for help. The EPA’s state-of-the-science assessment concluded that no widespread impacts could be discerned. But the agency further concluded that data scarcity […]

Source: http://news10.com, February 11, 2016 By: Nick Fusaro HOOSICK FALLS, NY (NEWS10) – The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today identified Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics and Honeywell International as parties responsible for PFOA contamination in the Village of Hoosick Falls area as a result of the agency’s preliminary investigation. DEC’s investigation has identified groundwater contamination at […]

Source: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com, February 10, 2016 By: Deana Harley, David Chang and Aundrea Cline-Thomas Although a college spokesperson said the illnesses have yet to be identified, health officials said the symptoms resemble those of norovirus. Norovirus may have sickened 100 Ursinus College students, 22 of whom were sent to the emergency room or urgent care late […]

Source: http://www.marinij.com, February 8, 2016 By: Stephanie Weldy Residents will gather at a community meeting Wednesday to sound off on proposed plans to clean up after a former dry cleaner at Marinwood Plaza. The proposal is already under fire from some, including Supervisor Damon Connolly, for lack of a timeline outlining when the process would […]