Source: https://www.reuters.com/, March 11, 2022 By: Alexandra Kleeman There has been much coverage of PFAS, the “forever chemicals,” in the past year. These emerging contaminants have spiked concern because of their pervasiveness in the environment and our relatively limited understanding of their impacts on human health. And while it seems there are more questions than […]

Source: https://www.jsonline.com/, March 14, 2022 By: Laura Schulte The Wisconsin Department of Justice Monday morning filed a lawsuit against a prominent producer of firefighting foam containing “forever chemicals,” saying the company violated state laws by releasing the chemicals into the environment in Marinette and Peshtigo. Tyco Fire Products knowingly violated the state spills law when […]

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/, March 11, 2022 By: Lulu Ramadan Washington lawmakers dedicated $1.5 million to remove toxic fluorescent lights from schools and an additional $125,000 to study environmental hazards and create new standards to protect students from exposure to harmful substances. In requesting the funding, lawmakers cited an investigation by The Seattle Times and ProPublica into a […]

Source: https://www.indystar.com/, March 10, 2022 By: Sarah Bowman Nearly 50 years ago, toxic coal ash from a power plant was used as fill in yards, at building sites and under the roads of a northern Indiana town. Thirty years later, federal and state agencies first learned that it was contaminating the town’s aquifer and creating […]

Source: https://pbswisconsin.org/, March 8, 2022 By: Will Cushman The bipartisan federal infrastructure law passed in 2021 is set to not only invest in improvements to the nation’s roads, railways, airports and bridges, but also accelerate a decades-long cleanup of the most polluted places in the Great Lakes, including four sites in Wisconsin. A March 2 visit […]

Source: https://www.civilbeat.org/, March 7, 2022 By: Christina Jedra After leaks at the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility culminated in a water contamination crisis impacting thousands of military families, the U.S. Department of Defense said Monday that it will permanently shut down the World War II-era facility. The decision marks a reversal from the Pentagon’s previous […]

Source: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/, March 7, 2022 By: Ryan Kennedy Utility-scale solar and battery energy storage are set to be the dominant new source of energy capacity additions, as over the next two years the Energy Information Administration (EIA) predicts the two technologies will combine for 60% of capacity added to the grid. Of the total 85GW […]

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/, March 7, 2022 Chemical company Monsanto found itself in the horns of yet another lawsuit Monday, as Los Angeles sued the firm for allegedly knowingly polluting waterways in one of the biggest cities in the United States. The suit — filed last week against three companies including Bayer, the German agro giant that […]

Source: https://www.miamiherald.com/, March 8, 2022 By: Nicholas Nehamas The victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse are suing the condo association of Eighty Seven Park, a neighboring luxury tower they partly blame for the disaster, as well as three firms involved in Eighty Seven Park’s construction. In a new filing that’s part of a complex […]

Source: https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/, March 4, 2022 By: Beth Edwards Northern Indiana Public Service Co. will be responsible for cleaning up soil contamination at individual residences within the Town of Pines Groundwater Plume Superfund site in Porter County, Indiana, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The soil is contaminated by coal ash, the byproduct of burning coal […]

Source: https://riskandinsurance.com/, March 5, 2022 By: Joel Berg After years of a flat market, carriers are finally boosting premiums for contractors professional liability coverage, according to a 2022 market update by Chicago-based wholesale brokerage firm RT Specialty. That was one of the more prominent conclusions in the firm’s update, which examines the latest trends in environmental and […]

Source: https://madison.com/, March 4, 2022 By: Chris Hubbuch State officials say toxic “forever chemicals” have contaminated fish in one of southern Wisconsin’s premier fishing destinations. The Department of Natural Resources and Department of Health Services issued a health advisory Thursday warning anglers to limit consumption of trout from Black Earth Creek, a popular but vulnerable Class […]