Source: http://indepthnh.org/, January 15, 2022 Community Action Works (formerly Toxics Action Center) and Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) have settled their federal Clean Water Act lawsuit against Casella Waste Systems, Inc., and North Country Environmental Services, Inc., for the discharge of pollutants from the companies’ Bethlehem Landfill into the Ammonoosuc River. Read more.

Source: https://www.mondaq.com/, January 18, 2022 By: Olivia Rangaswami, Taft Stettinius & Hollister On Jan. 10, 2022, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) submitted a proposal to the White House Office of Management and Budget that will designate PFOA and PFOS as “Superfund hazardous substances.” In designating PFOA and PFOS (collectively “PFAS”) as a “hazardous substance” under […]

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/, January 11, 2022 By: Brian K. Sulliva and Josh Saul Canadian renewable-power company will replace foundations at a New Brunswick wind farm after engineers determined a turbine collapse in October stemmed from design flaws. TransAlta Renewables Inc. said replacing 50 foundations will cost C$75 million to C$100 million ($59 million to $79 million) […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, January 10, 2022 By: Ryan Stanton The demolition of an Ann Arbor dry cleaner to address a longstanding pollution problem in the soil beneath the building is now underway. Armen Cleaners has stood at 630 S. Ashley St. for decades, but officials determined last year the building needs to come down so the state can […]

Source: https://www.constructionbusinessowner.com/, December 17, 2021 By: Maydelis Torres Already expecting a downturn, the commercial construction industry was further impacted when COVID-19 either delayed or shuttered projects nationwide and a seemingly endless barrage of storms caused more than $95 billion in damages across the United States alone. This is on top of the growing array of […]

Source: https://www.iamagazine.com/, January 3, 2022 By: Olivia Overman In March 2021, A.M. Best, the global credit rating agency, became a signatory to the United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) Financial Initiative Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI). These principles serve as a global framework for the insurance industry to play an ever-increasing role in addressing environmental, social and governance […]

Source: Guardian Web, December 24, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ America’s longest running oil spill dispute is close to a resolution after a Louisiana-based energy firm has agreed to a proposed multi-million-dollar settlement. Taylor Energy agreed to pay more than $43m in clean-up costs, civil penalties and natural resource damage, and transfer a $432m clean-up trust […]

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/, December 22, 2021 By: Janet McConnaughey A New Orleans-based oil company has agreed to turn over a $432 million cleanup trust fund and pay an additional $43 million to settle a federal lawsuit over cleaning up abandoned wells leaking since 2004, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. “This settlement represents an important down payment to […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, December 21, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ When a ruptured well at Aliso Canyon started spewing toxic chemicals and heat-trapping methane gas — sickening local families and adding to the climate crisis — Southern California Gas Co. turned to another fossil-fuel giant to help stop the bleeding. SoCalGas hired Boots & Coots, […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, December 18, 2021 By: Garret Ellison Fifty tons of soil contaminated with toxic PFAS chemicals from an excavation site in northern Michigan spilled across the highway and into a roadside ditch last month when a hazardous waste truck crashed on Veterans Day. Federal officials confirmed a heavy truck carrying contaminated dirt from a cleanup […]

Source: https://lawstreetmedia.com, December 17, 2021 By: Kendall Heebink On Tuesday, the Department of Justice announced that Solutia Inc. and Pharmacia LLC, two successors to the Monsanto Company, are set to “complete the cleanup of four former landfills and waste lagoons” located in Illinois as a result of a settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Over the […]

Source: https://www.justice.gov/, December 17, 2021 Alcoa Corporation and Howmet Aerospace, successors to Alcoa Incorporated, and the City of East St. Louis, Illinois, will clean up hazardous waste disposal sites surrounding Alcoa’s former aluminum manufacturing plant in East St. Louis to resolve federal liability. The settlement will require the companies to clean up radium, arsenic, chromium, […]