Source: https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/, February 27, 2023 By: Joseph P. Smith The township is moving on two fronts to deal with reported contamination of its drinking water sources with chemical compounds found in fire suppression foams. Attorneys for the township filed a six-count lawsuit on Feb. 16 in Burlington County Superior Court against 29 companies, leaving room […]

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/, February 26, 2023 By: Michelle Mark Residents of Lincoln County are fed up with the black fungus covering their homes and cars. The stubborn “whiskey fungus” feeds on ethanol vapor from the Jack Daniel’s barrel houses. Locals are demanding an air-filtration system and an environmental-impact study. The sooty black mold smothers homes, porches, […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, February 25, 2023 By: Carey Gillam Mike DeWine, the Ohio governor, recently lamented the toll taken on the residents of East Palestine after the toxic train derailment there, saying “no other community should have to go through this”. But such accidents are happening with striking regularity. A Guardian analysis of data collected by […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, February 23, 2023 A Waltham-based construction contractor, Devens-based plumbing contractor, and Woburn-based demolition company will pay up to $325,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations of illegal asbestos work during a renovation project at Fitchburg State University (FSU) in the spring and summer of 2018, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell said that […]

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/, February 21, 2023 By: Michael F. Gorman, Professor of Business Analytics and Operations Management, University of Dayton Less than two weeks after train cars filled with hazardous chemicals derailed in Ohio and caught fire, a truck carrying nitric acid crashed on a major highway outside Tucson, Arizona, killing the driver and releasing toxic chemicals into […]

Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/, February 21, 2023 By: John Flesher Police Chief Jason Wright feared the worst as he rushed to the scene of a freight train derailment in Michigan’s Van Buren Township, mindful of a fiery rail crash this month in Ohio that led to evacuations and a toxic chemical release. Instead, the situation a half-hour’s […]

Source: https://apnews.com/, February 16, 2023 By: Jeff Amy Georgia Power Co. has again delayed the projected startup for two new units at its Vogtle nuclear power plant near Augusta, saying its share of the costs will rise by an additional $200 million. Southern Co., the utility’s Atlanta-based parent, announced the delays and higher costs on […]

Source: https://www.ercweb.com/, January 23, 2023 The EPA recently announced it is seeking public comment on its proposal to address environmental justice, climate change, and PFAS contamination in its National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives (NECIs).  Every four years, EPA selects national initiatives to focus resources on serious and widespread environmental problems where federal enforcement can make […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, February 14, 2023 By: Malcolm C. Weiss, Scott P. DeVries, Syed S. Ahmad, Yosef Itkin and Javaneh S. Tarter, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP PFAS Regulation Per- and polyfluoroalkyl Substances (“PFAS”) are a class of substances that have increasingly become the target of federal and state regulation in everything from drinking water, groundwater, site […]

Source: https://www.wkyc.com/, February 11, 2023 By: Chris Beeble The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a “General Notice of Potential Liability” letter to Norfolk Southern on Friday detailing areas where the company may be liable for damages and cleanup related to the East Palestine train derailment site. In the letter, the EPA detailed their investigation into […]

Source: February 13, 2023 By: John Hanna A faulty weld at a bend in an oil pipeline contributed to a spill that dumped nearly 13,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek, the pipeline’s operator said last Thursday, estimating the cost of cleaning it up at $480 million. Canadian-based TC Energy said […]

Source: https://www.wate.com/, February 13, 2023 By: Gregory Raucoules The Environmental Protection Agency will soon begin environmental cleanup efforts at a 13-acre site in Knoxville contaminated by hazardous waste. The Smokey Mountain Smelters site at 1508 Maryville Pike is considered a “Superfund” site by the EPA, or an area contaminated by hazardous waste from previous industrial operations. It is located […]