Source: http://www.ocregister.com, September 24, 2015 By: Aaron Orlowski The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken over cleanup of the northern portion of the largest groundwater basin supplying drinking water to Orange County and is investigating whether to classify it as a Superfund site. The pollution in the North Orange County Groundwater Basin comes from decades-old […]

Source: Pittsbugh Tribune-Review, September 23, 2015 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com As federal investigators probe a rare mold outbreak at UPMC, experts say the focus will be on how well the hospital handled a nearly impossible task: preventing a common organism from getting into the building. “It isn’t really possible to reduce the risk for fungal infection […]

Source: http://www.waff.com, September 23, 2015 By: Nick Lough The environmental group Tennessee Riverkeeper has mailed written notices to 3M, BFI Waste Systems of Alabama, LLC, Decatur Utilities, and the City of Decatur informing them of their intent to file a federal lawsuit regarding dangerous chemicals in the Tennessee River’s Wheeler Reservoir. The environmental group has significant health […]

Source: http://missoulian.com, September 23, 2015 By: Martin Kidston Representatives of two Missoula neighborhoods sat down with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality on Tuesday night to discuss the cleanup timeline for a defunct industrial site on the city’s north side. The DEQ released its record of decision for the 43-acre White Pine Sash site in […]

Source: http://www.hngn.com, September 24, 2015 By: Jelani James Concerns about Legionnaires’ Disease is on the rise in Chicago after three schools found traces of the disease-causing bacteria in its cooling towers. Following in New York City’s footsteps, a school district in Illinois is now facing it’s own outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease. Legionella, the bacteria that […]

Source: http://powersource.post-gazette.com, September 22, 2015 By: Anya Litvak Since the 1930s, a chunk of land in Beaver County has been growing richer in all the wrong types of ways — building up reserves of lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. The land, which until last year housed the largest zinc smelter in the nation, is now in […]

Source: http://www.jacksonsun.com, September 21, 2015 By: David Thomas The 22,357 acres at the Milan Army Ammunition Plant may be sacred grounds, but remnants of wars past call for a massive cleanup that is expected to last another 60 years. Britt Locke, the commander’s representative at the plant said ground water contamination affected the Memphis Sand […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, September 18, 2015 By: Caroline Spangenberg and Edmund Kneisel, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Perhaps no case has generated as many citations and commentary (more than 1,880 citations, including 440 cases) on the subject of liability coverage for “construction defects” as Weedo v. Stone-E-Brick, Inc., 81 N.J. 233, 405 A.2d 788 (1979). For […]

Source: http://www.post-gazette.com, September 22, 2015 By: Sean D. Hamill Infectious control experts from the state and federal governments are to be at UPMC Presbyterian and Montefiore hospitals today to try to figure out how to keep a possible mold outbreak from spreading, one day after UPMC said it was stopping all transplants at Presbyterian while […]

Source: https://bangordailynews.com, September 17, 2015 Cy: Walter Wuthmann The contamination of children by a potentially hazardous chemical at a former Air Force base in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has raised concerns about the possibility of a similar problem in Brunswick. The children and other residents in Portsmouth drank tainted water from a well on the former […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA), September 15, 2015 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com A mold outbreak has caused the closure of UPMC Presbyterian’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit and relocation of 18 patients, officials said Monday. Doctors suspected the unit had a problem on Sept. 3 after a male transplant patient tested positive for mold in an external wound, […]

Source: Telegraph (Alton, IL), September 15, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Monday filed a consent order to resolve groundwater contamination issues at the Shay No. 1 Coal Mine in Macoupin County. The consent order filed and entered by the court in Macoupin County will resolve groundwater quality violations at Shay Mine, […]