Source: http://www.petoskeynews.com, October 27, 2015 By: Steve Zucker State environmental officials are spending about $450,000 to clean up contamination at the former site of a leaking underground gasoline storage tank. Work at the site of the former Clares Country Corner gas station on Boyne City-East Jordan Road near Deer Lake Road, began earlier this month […]

Source: http://www.syracuse.com, October 24, 2015 By: Ken Sturtz Health officials are investigating the possibility that the legionella bacteria may be present in the water supply at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center. Dr. Sandra Sulik, vice president for medical affairs, said the hospital received test results Friday afternoon that identified potential legionella bacteria in some samples […]

Source: http://www.foxnews.com, September 24, 2015 Three school buildings in suburban Chicago were closed and students sent home on Wednesday after annual air quality testing of cooling towers found higher-than-normal levels of the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease, a school official said. The buildings included a high school, middle school and one that houses central offices […]

Source: http://www.nwitimes.com, October 25, 2015 By: Lauri Harvey Keagle The property that was home to a Hammond dry cleaners for 50 years is in line for a proposed, high-tech remediation aimed at removing hazardous chemicals that leaked underground there. The thermal remediation work by the Indianapolis-based environmental engineering firm EnviroForensics is proposed at the former […]

Source: http://www.tennessean.com, October 23, 2015 By: Jordan Buie and Josh Cross The water in the wells is within national drinking water standards, but the levels of hexavalent chromium were “slightly above” EPA risk levels. Odom’s Bend is the last turn before you get to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal-fired power plant in Gallatin. From Albert […]

Source: http://www.denverpost.com, October 25, 2015 By: Bruce Finley Acid heavy metals contamination of waterways continues after Gold King disaster — raising concerns statewide Toxic mines hang over this haven for wildflowers, contaminating water and driving residents — like counterparts statewide — to press for better protection. A local group went to federal court this month […]

Source: http://wnpr.org, October 23, 2015 By: David Desroches Hartford’s school board and city officials filed suit on Friday against Monsanto, seeking the multinational corporation’s payment to remove toxic PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, from Clark Elementary School. “Our families and taxpayers should not have to bear the costs for this project,” said Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, October 21, 2015 By: David M.Zimmer The local government has had to open up its checkbook once again as it works to clean up contamination on the municipal complex that dates back more than a decade. Earlier this month, West Milford’s town council approved a $32,000 contract with G Environmental GECP of Succasunna […]

Source: LaGrange Daily News (GA), October 20, 2015 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The landlord of a company fined $10 million by a federal court in August for polluting the Chattahoochee River settled a lawsuit with a regional environmental nonprofit Monday. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, a clean water advocacy group, filed suit against Roswell-based M&K Warehouses in November 2014, […]

Source: http://www.wsbtv.com, October 19, 2015 A South Fulton County landowner, M&K Warehouses, has agreed to clean up a site where a tenant dumped toxic sludge near the Chattahoochee River. The property is located along Frederick Court just south of Interstate 20, and was rented to American Sealcoat Manufacturing at the time. Earlier this year, a […]

Source: http://www.wisbar.org, October 20, 2015 By: Deborah Spanic In a case of unintended consequences, an insurance policy endorsement on pollution was found ambiguous and summary judgment was reversed for an insurance company seeking not to provide coverage to its insured. Patrick Connors was employed at Grede Foundries in Reedsburg, Wis., when he became ill with […]

Source: http://www.natlawreview.com, October 20, 2015 By: Eric \g. Cheng, Wison Elser The recent New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease (named for a 1976 outbreak of a type of pneumonia at an American Legion convention) has raised awareness of the illness. It has also renewed the courts’ interest in interpreting the Mold Exclusion. In the […]