Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/, July 16, 2021 By: Rachel Riley Though dump trucks hauled away some 14,000 loads of polluted material last year, much remains below the surface where the Kimberly-Clark pulp and paper mill once stood along the waterfront. Metals, PCBs and other chemical remnants of milling still taint sand and silt, highly vulnerable to seismic shifts. Read […]

Source: https://www.delawareonline.com/, July 13, 2021 By: Jeff Neiburg DuPont, Chemours and Corteva will pay millions of dollars to the state of Delaware, according to a settlement reached between the Delaware Department of Justice and the three companies – an agreement that holds the companies responsible for decades of damage done to Delaware’s environment through toxic chemicals known as […]

Source: Associated Press, July 12, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Lawsuits filed Monday in California seek potential class-action damages from Dow Chemical and its successor company over a widely used bug killer linked to brain damage in children. Chlorpyrifos is approved for use on more than 80 crops, including oranges, berries, grapes, soybeans, almonds and walnuts, […]

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/, July 13, 2021 By: Hannah Murphy A fresh hazard has been uncovered in the oil and gas industry: For the past decade, the Environmental Protection Agency has knowingly allowed oil companies to use chemicals that could break down into PFAS — a class of highly toxic, long-lasting compounds also known as “forever chemicals,” […]

Source: https://www-wtsp-com.cdn.ampproject.org, July 9, 2021 By: Jillian Olsen Heavy rains and a system failure are to blame for 60,110 gallons of wastewater entering waterways around the Tampa Bay area on July 3. Reports filed with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection show issues in the City of Tampa began around 4:22 p.m. Read more.

Source: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/, July 6, 2021 By: Christine G. Barlow, CPCU On June 24th, a large condominium building collapsed in the middle of the night in Surfside, Florida, a town several miles north of Miami. About 55 of the building’s 136 units collapsed within seconds. As of July 6, 32 people have been confirmed dead, and another […]

Source: http://outbreaknewstoday.com/, July 10, 2021 Minnesota state health officials report investigating  two laboratory-confirmed cases so far among people from unrelated groups who were at the Ramada by Wyndham Albert Lea and spent time in the pool/hot tub area around the last weekend of June. These people became ill between late June and early July. One […]

Source: https://www.njspotlight.com/, July 9, 2021 By: Jon Hurdle Four New Jersey towns and an investor-owned water supplier are suing 3M, DuPont and other makers of PFAS — so-called forever chemicals — saying the companies knew their products would contaminate drinking water but continued to sell them, and must now pay for their cleanup. Camden and […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 6, 2021 By: Kate Abnett Taxpayers are too often being forced to pay to clean up environmental damage while the companies responsible dodge the costs, the European Court of Auditors said on Monday. The European Union’s executive Commission will propose rules this year to force companies to find and fix risks to […]

Source: The Washington Post, June 30, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Shortly after 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 24, 1992, meteorologist Bryan Norcross grabbed his notebook and stepped off the set of WTVJ, Miami’s NBC affiliate, to head for the safest place in the station. “When you see us move, and you’re watching us, we want you […]

Source: https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/, June 30, 2021 By: Mike Koshmrl Jackson Hole Airport is joining a consolidated lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of South Carolina that charges aviation firefighting foam manufacturers with knowingly keeping quiet the health hazard of one of their product’s chemical constituents: polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. To date there are over 500 plaintiffs […]

Source: https://denver.cbslocal.com/, July 1, 2021 By: Kati Weiss Residents in the city just a short ride north up the interstate from Denver are fed up, saying for 15 years, the owner of the Thornton Shopping Center has failed to clean up toxic dry cleaning chemicals that are seeping into nearby neighborhoods. They feel the city […]