Source: https://www.popsci.com/, December 15, 2022 By: Zayna Syed Last month, the US Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced more than a million dollars in penalties against companies for polluting local waterways. The culprits? Four solar farms in Illinois, Alabama, and Idaho. Read more.

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Source: https://www.wesa.fm/, December 12, 2022 By: Reid Frazier The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says it has found gas leaking at several wells at the same Cambria County natural gas storage site where an uncontrolled gas leak spewed a large amount of methane for nearly two weeks last month. Though the leaks aren’t as serious […]

Source: https://thecurrentga.org/, December 6, 2022 By: Mary Landers The City of Brunswick is suing Honeywell and Georgia Power over pollutants on city property that allegedly came from the companies’ nearby industrial activity beginning in the 1950s. A federal Superfund site established in 1996 to clean up the pollutants does not include city property. In a […]

Source: https://www.benzinga.com/, November 22, 2022 Over the summer, five people died from Legionnaires’ disease at a New York City nursing home. The nursing home had been cited on multiple occasions for improper maintenance of their cooling tower. This outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease is the worst since 2015 when cooling towers were blamed for the cause […]

Source: https://www.minnpost.com/, November 2022 By: Bennet Goldstein This fall, the towns and rural farmsteads along the Mississippi River received alarming news about their drinking water. Chemicals from a large 3M factory north of Cordova, Illinois found a way into the river and their wells. The facility employs about 500 people and makes the adhesives used […]

Source: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/, November 15, 2022 By: Alex Deluca Last year, hundreds of thousands of gallons of sewage spilled across Miami-Dade County after contractors accidentally broke sewer mains and other sewage system components, according to a recent county report. Covering a period from January 2021 to March 2022, the report lays out the worst contractor-involved sewage […]

Source: https://www.capecodtimes.com/, November 18, 2022 By: Rachael Devaney YMCA Cape Cod has reopened its aquatic center, several weeks after chemical exposure injured seven children in October. On Wednesday the pool reopened to all aquatics programming, including swim lessons, aqua fitness, and lap swimming. And all seven children injured in the chemical exposure, returned to YMCA […]

Source: https://kstp.com/, November 10, 2022 By: Jennifer Sinco Kelleher More than two dozen families have joined a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Navy of making them sick from jet fuel that leaked into the tap water in their Hawaii homes. There are now more than 100 people in an amended lawsuit filed Thursday that also accuses […]

Source: https://www.military.com/, November 14, 2022 By: Thomas Novelly A bacteria that can cause pneumonia is still being detected in the medical barracks at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas, despite weeks of efforts to sanitize the area. In late September, base officials said that 150 residents and staff at Liberty Barracks, where service members who are patients […]

Source: https://progressive.org/, November 17, 2022 By: Johnathan Sharp Since the early 1900s, the U.S. military’s negligent use, storage and disposal of harmful chemical substances on its bases has exposed countless troops to severe health hazards. One example is Camp Lejeune, a Marine Corps base in North Carolina, where toxic contamination went unnoticed for several decades […]

Source: https://www.sciencefriday.com/, November 18, 2022 Early in 2019, Ed Galbraith faced a crowd of some 200 unhappy Springfield, Missouri residents. He wanted to make amends. Galbraith, then director of Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ environmental quality division, acknowledged that the state agency in charge of protecting the environment should have announced sooner that contaminated water […]