Source: Associated Press, July 20, 2022 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force nearly 20 companies that he alleges contaminated the environment with chemicals known as PFAS to reimburse the state for investigations and cleanup efforts. The lawsuit, filed in Dane County circuit court, names 18 companies […]

Source: https://www.wvpublic.org/, July 19, 2022 By: Curtis Tate An expert witness in a federal trial testified that “a soup of nasty contaminants” is leaking from a South Charleston landfill chemical company Union Carbide owns. Scott Simonton, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Marshall University, said drums of industrial waste buried in the Filmont […]

Source: https://www.courierpress.com/, July 20, 2022 By: Mark Wilson The cleanup of a hazardous waste site in an Evansville neighborhood is largely done, but what comes next for the old Miller Plating & Metal Finishing property is still unclear. Located near the corner of North Sixth Avenue and Allens Lane, it is contaminated with TCE (trichloroethylene) and […]

Source: https://northpennnow.com/, July 20, 2022 By: Tony Di Domizio Environmental Protection Agency officials last week joined with Lansdale Borough and Montgomery County representatives to break ground on the cleanup efforts and removal and replacement of TCE-contaminated soil at a North Penn Area 6 Superfund site in the borough, thanks to $4.9 million from the new Bipartisan Infrastructure […]

Source: https://thesouthern.com/, July 14, 2022 By: Marilyn Halstead Thursday, Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced an interim consent order with Sugar Camp Energy LLC over an alleged release of dangerous “forever chemicals” from a mine in Franklin County. A lawsuit filed earlier this year alleges Sugar Camp used firefighting foams containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), […]

Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/, July 14, 2022 By: Ellen Dennis An overheated drill may have sparked a four-alarm inferno that leveled an apartment building being built on Everett’s waterfront three years ago and caused an estimated $25 million in damages. The allegation about what touched off the July 16, 2020 fire that destroyed the four-story Waterfront Place Apartments, 1300 […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 14, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced a settlement with PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, L.P. (PCS Nitrogen), to remedy hazardous waste issues at its former fertilizer manufacturing facility in Geismar, Louisiana. This settlement resolves alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and […]

Source: https://www.mynbc5.com/, July 11, 2022 By: John Hawks A paving project on Route 11 in Springfield called the roadway to be shut for several hours on Monday after a tar spill caused an estimated 1,500 gallons of chemicals to spill out of a construction vehicle. Officials were called to the scene after receiving word that […]

Source: https://www.msn.com/ By: Howard Blume No one was injured. Two district vehicles parked under the shady concourse were destroyed. But the major structural failure triggered safety inspections that uncovered serious defects that prompted the shutdown of the 20-year-old campus — and led the school district to conclude that its main three-story building, with 110 classrooms, […]

Source: https://www.westernmassnews.com/, July 7, 2022 By: Mary Wilson Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has sued 13 manufacturers of toxic PFAS chemicals used in firefighting foam. They said the foam has led to the contamination of drinking water sources in communities across the state, including Westfield. Kristen Mello welcomes health officials onto her Westfield property… “To […]

Source: https://www.nhbr.com/, July 7, 2022 By: Bob Sanders Just as the state reached a $500,000 settlement with Georgia Pacific to reimburse it for its investigation of a Superfund site at the former Brown Paper Company mill in Berlin, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to renew its investigation of a contaminated site Wilton – […]

Source: https://constructionexec.com/, July 5, 2022 By: Mark D. Shifton Ensuring appropriate insurance coverage for large construction projects is an important and complicated process. While insurance will never be able to prevent potentially ruinous events such as catastrophic construction accidents or the discovery of latent construction defects long after substantial completion, the right insurance coverage can […]