Source: https://www.dailyherald.com/, April 8, 2022 By: Eric Schelkopf Officials for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency continue to assess the damage done to the environment after nearly 8,000 gallons of gasoline on Wednesday leaked from the Shell gas station at the intersection of routes 64 and 47 in Lily Lake. “Illinois EPA remains at the site […]

Source: https://www.abqjournal.com/, April 10, 2022 Dairy farmers can seek reimbursement from the federal government for cows contaminated by chemicals that have leached into the groundwater around an Air Force base in eastern New Mexico. U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján on Friday commended a recent rule change by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that created a […]

Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/, April 10, 2022 A Central District of California Judge has preliminarily approved a class action settlement in City of Long Beach, et al. v. Monsanto Company, et al., that will resolve claims by various municipalities against Monsanto Company, Solutia, Inc. and Pharmacia for environmental damages related to PCBs.  The underlying basis for the claims […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, April 6, 2022 By: Madison C. Wright, Phelps Dunbar LLP Reversing a trial court’s grant of summary judgment for an excess insurer under a pollution exclusion, the Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously held the exclusion ambiguous. See Omega Protein, Inc. v. Evanston Ins. Co., Case No. 2020-CA-01097-SCT, 2022 WL178171, at *1 (Miss. Jan. 20, 2022). […]

Source: https://www.sacbee.com/, April 6, 2022 by: Madeline Shannon The Ballico-Cressey School District, a small school district in a rural stretch of northern Merced County, is suing corporate giants Dow Chemical and Shell Oil. The lawsuit, filed on March 30 in Merced County Superior Court, alleges that the big companies manufactured and sold agricultural fumigants containing […]

Source: https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/, April 6, 2022 By: Kate Ready The Jackson Hole Airport Board is suing a number of companies, including 3M, DuPont and Chemours, for selling a fire-quelling foam that contains harmful contaminants known to pollute groundwater and soil. Other airports also have joined the suit targeting chemicals that airports were required to use by […]

Source: https://www.wqad.com/, April 4, 2022 By: Shelby Kluver The Illinois attorney general alleges that 3M knowingly manufactured and used dangerous chemicals for years, ultimately contaminating the nearby Mississippi River, residential wells and surface, ground and drinking water around its Cordova facility, according to a new lawsuit. Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed the suit in Rock […]

Source: https://www.spokesman.com/, April 5, 2022 By: Colin Tiernan Forty -five years ago, a Spokane County business could truck its used industrial solvents and degreasers to the Colbert landfill and pour them into an open trench, 55-gallon barrel by 55-gallon barrel. From 1975 to 1980, Spokane County allowed Keytronic, Fairchild Air Force Base and others to […]

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/, April 5, 2022 By: Keith Edwards An underground explosion Monday morning at the Exit 43 Quik Stop, off Route 197 near Interstate 295 in Richmond, forced temporary closure of the gas station and convenience store, prompted evacuation of nearby businesses and led to a brief road closure, according to officials. Chief John Bellino […]

Source: https://www.vcstar.com/, April 1, 2022 By: Cheri Carlson California regulators have ordered Boeing to clean up lead-contaminated soil in Sage Ranch Park in Simi Valley. The state Department of Toxic Substances Control says the cleanup is required on about 31 acres contaminated by lead shot, skeet fragments and clay pigeon debris left over from when the area […]

Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/, March 29, 2022 By: Tom Hals Bayer AG reached an $80 million settlement with Ohio to resolve environmental damage allegedly caused by polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, made by the company’s Monsanto business, the state attorney general said on Thursday. The funds from the German company, which did not admit liability, will be used […]

Source: https://nj1015.com/, April 4, 2022 By: Patrick Lavery The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has filed a lawsuit seeking damages against Connecticut-based Hexcel Corporation, which for 13 years operated a manufacturing plant in this Bergen County borough where storage tanks leaked fuel and toxic chemicals into the groundwater. In a release Monday, the state Office […]