Source: https://www.fox26houston.com/, July 5, 2022 Officials in the city of Houston and Harris County are taking action against Union Pacific regarding the contamination of Houston’s Fifth Ward, according to a statement. The statement says that Harris County Attorney Christian D Menefee, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will submit notices of intent to sue pursuant to the federal Resource Conservation and […]

Source: https://www.kcur.org/, July 6, 2022 By: Kavahn Mansouri Workers at a manure digester in northwest Iowa did not act on signs of a potential leak before thousands of gallons of wastewater poured into nearby waterways, according to documents from the state’s environmental regulator. In early February, a manure digester owned and operated by Colorado-based biofuel […]

Source: https://www.mass.gov/, June 29, 2022 A Shrewsbury resident has agreed to pay $120,000 to reimburse the state for the cost of responding to a 2016 explosion and fire caused when his contractor demolished a backyard shed at his residential property, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today. The explosion and fire released hazardous chemicals and fumes, […]

Source: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/, June 24, 2022 By: Jared Strong A large Iowa Falls egg-laying chicken operation improperly stored hundreds of thousands of gallons of liquid manure that had the potential to leak into a nearby creek that feeds the Iowa River, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The Opal Foods facility is located about […]

Source: https://www.cnn.com/, June 24, 2022 By: Denise Royal and Elizabeth Wolfe On the eve of the one-year anniversary of a catastrophic condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, a judge approved an approximately $1 billion settlement for those impacted by the disaster that killed 98 people, an attorney for the plaintiffs confirmed Thursday. The judge’s decision finalizes […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/, June 22, 2022 The Mississippi Court of Appeals addressed in a May 31st opinion a dispute over responsibility for environmental contamination between a lessor and a lessee. See Biloxi Dock & Ice, LLC v. Back Bay Fuel and Ice, LLC, 2022 WL 1743238. The dispute was complicated by the fact that a definitive source of […]

Source: https://www.statesman.com/, June 22, 2022 By: Fernand Figueroa A contractor error is believed to have caused the unauthorized discharge of raw sewage from a manhole along Brushy Creek, according to a news release from the city of Round Rock. The error occurred during expansion work at the East Brushy Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant at 3939 […]

Source: https://siouxcityjournal.com/, June 22, 2022 By: Nick Hytrek Federal contractors have begun cleaning up tons of hazardous leaded glass illegally stored in South Sioux City and in rural Akron, Iowa, by a now-defunct recycling business owned by a former Sioux City councilman. On Tuesday, workers with an excavator and skid loader continued to remove an […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, June 17, 2022 By: Stephanie R. Feingold, Laurie Matthews and Drew Cleary Jordan, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP In its latest action under its PFAS Roadmap, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued new and updated drinking water health advisories for four PFAS chemicals. These health advisories are an interim step in a larger […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, June 17, 2022 The state says testing has confirmed that a petroleum product released into the Flint River earlier this week came from Lockhart Chemical Co. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy reported its findings in a news release on Friday, June 17, and a spokesman said the agency has […]

Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/, June 20, 2022 By: Jenny Whidden Community concerns of Lake Michigan contamination from a Waukegan power plant’s recently shuttered coal-fired units heightened last week after an environmental study identified the facility as a potential flood risk, citing rising lake levels due to climate change. The report, released by Chicago’s Environmental Law and Policy Center, […]

Source: https://wfpl.org/, June 15, 2022 By: Ryan Van Velzer For years, environmental officials have said the levels of forever chemicals found in Kentucky drinking water were safe, but on Wednesday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency revised that risk. At least 38 drinking water systems in Kentucky, including Louisville, have levels of forever chemicals the EPA now […]