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, […]

Source: Miami Herald, December 16, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ In the wake of the deadly Surfside condo collapse, Miami-Dade County should institute more frequent building recertification inspections, and condo associations should be required to annually certify routine maintenance and building repairs, a grand jury recommended on Wednesday. Those were among the many recommendations issued Wednesday […]

Source: https://www.dailylocal.com/, December 6, 2021 Sunoco Pipeline LP will dredge part of a contaminated lake and pay more than $4 million for spilling thousands of gallons of drilling fluids at a popular state park outside in Downingtown, state officials announced Monday in a settlement that will allow construction to resume. Sunoco Pipeline LP will dredge […]

Source: https://www.gazettenet.com/, December 7, 2021 By: Dusty Christensen The cost of remediating a massive mold infestation at South Hadley High School earlier this year has ballooned to $1.4 million, according to figures provided in Select Board documents for its meeting Tuesday. The costs include $784,574 for mold mitigation work done by the firm ServiceMaster Recovery Management, […]

Source: https://news.yahoo.com/, December 7, 2021 By: Michael Doyle Members of the city of Henderson’s PFAS Working Group got a crash course in geology in its meeting Monday, as the group of city leaders and concerned citizens continue to learn more about the chemicals that have contaminated groundwater in the areas of Shamrock Technologies facilities. Tony Hatton, a […]

Source: https://6abc.com/, December 7, 2021 By: Michael Rubinkam A pipeline developer will dredge part of a contaminated lake and pay more than $4 million for spilling thousands of gallons of drilling fluids at a popular state park outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania state officials announced Monday in a settlement that will allow construction to resume. Sunoco Pipeline […]

Source: https://modernfarmer.com/, December 1, 2021 By: Dan Nosowitz When the German pharmaceutical and chemical company Bayer AG purchased Monsanto back in 2016, it was the largest acquisition by a German company ever. Today, it’s looking like an all-time awful business move, as Monsanto has been beset by repeated lawsuits. This week, Maryland’s attorney general slapped […]