Source: http://eastcountymagazine.org, January 22, 2016 esidents in San Diego’s East County have raised fears of spreading Valley Fever spores in their arguments against projects ranging from a sand mine in Lakeside to solar projects in Boulevard and Jacumba.  Now a jury in Northern California has shown just how expensive a verdict might be for a […]

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, January 22, 2016 By: Brendan J. Lyons Hoosick Falls village officials secretly hired a Glens Falls public relations firm last month to help develop “an overall communications program” as criticism mounted about their decision to not warn residents to stop drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical. The hiring of Behan Communications, which […]

Source: http://woodtv.com, January 21, 2016 The state health department says it can’t confirm if a spike in cases of Legionnaires’ disease in Genesee County was related to lead contamination in Flint water — but it can’t rule out the bad water as the cause, either. In a report released Thursday, the Michigan Department of Health […]

Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com, January 21, 2016 By: Naseem S. Miller Florida Hospital Orlando’s water tested positive for the respiratory germ Legionella last week leading the hospital to hire a firm to flush its water system. Hospital officials said that there are currently no confirmed cases of hospital-acquired Legionnaires’ disease. They added that the hospital’s water is […]

Source: http://www.swissre.com Construction work can be dangerous. The OSHA figures show that in 2013, 4,585 workers were killed on the job. That’s 88 deaths per week, or more than 12 deaths per day. The “fatal four” leading causes of worker fatalities in construction are falls, being struck by falling objects, electrocution, and getting caught in […]

Source: https://bangordailynews.com, January 20, 2016 By: Bill Trotter HANCOCK, Maine — Now that the town owns a 150-acre former tannery property off Route 1, local officials are hoping to get federal funds to clean up pollution that accumulated at the site decades ago. The town of Hancock has applied for $400,000 in federal brownfields remediation […]

Source: http://qns.com, December 21, 2015 By: Angela Matua Several assessments of two sites at 29-37 41st Ave. and 29-27 Queens Plaza North in Long Island City uncovered tanks of fuel and soil laced with hazardous concentrations of lead, metals and pesticides, according to a report by the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The agency is proposing an expedited cleanup of the sites […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, January 15, 2016 By: Scott Levin A spike in Legionnaires’ disease in Genesee County has further thrust Flint’s water crisis into the national spotlight. Legionnaires’ has impacted more than 80 people and caused 10 deaths in the Flint area since the city switched its water source to the Flint River in April 2014. A […]

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, January 16, 2016 By: Brian Nearing Walgreens owns former site of dry cleaning operation The state is still planning how to clean underground pollution from a former dry cleaners at a busy Loudonville intersection while weighing possible efforts to compel Walgreens, a national pharmacy chain that owns the property, to pay for the […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, January 15, 2016 By: Rebecca Forand One of the owners of the contaminated former Kiddie Kollege daycare site is not personally responsible for the cleanup, an appellate court ruled Thursday. In May 2014, a Superior Court judge found the former owner of the site, Accutherm Inc., and current owners Navillus Group and Jim Sullivan […]

Source: http://www.swissre.com Construction work can be dangerous. The OSHA figures show that in 2013, 4,585 workers were killed on the job. That’s 88 deaths per week, or more than 12 deaths per day. The “fatal four” leading causes of worker fatalities in construction are falls, being struck by falling objects, electrocution, and getting caught in […]

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, January 13, 2016 By: Brian Nearing Ex-Al Tech site needs more pollution cleanup now at public expense More than 15 years after announcing a “comprehensive” pollution cleanup plan at the sprawling former Al Tech Specialty Steel plant, the state has found more pollution, including toxic PCBs, than was first believed. And a multimillion-dollar […]