Source: https://stateimpact.npr.org/, March 23, 2021 By: Jon Hurdle A fight over plans to build houses on a heavily contaminated industrial site in Chester County appears to be nowhere near resolution more than 15 years after the land was purchased by the developer. Any prospect that the shuttered Bishop Tube site in East Whiteland Township could […]

Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/, March 23, 2021 PFAS is the environmental issue manufacturers across many sectors need to pay attention to now. PFAS is an acronym for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. It is a family of chemicals used in many applications, but they are getting a lot of attention now because of potential negative environmental impacts. That attention is […]

Source: https://www.nrdc.org/, March 19, 2021 By: Nancy Marks Today, Maine People’s Alliance (MPA), NRDC, and Mallinckrodt US LLC filed a proposed consent decree to settle litigation over mercury contamination in the Penobscot River estuary. This settlement, once reviewed and approved by the court, would conclude more than two decades of litigation and court-ordered studies of […]

Source: https://www.mprnews.org/, March 18, 2021 By: Kirsti Marohn The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says contamination from PFAS — so-called “forever chemicals” — has been detected in groundwater at nearly 60 closed landfills, at amounts higher than the state’s acceptable levels for safe drinking water. Fifteen of the closed, mostly unlined landfills have PFAS contamination at […]

Source: https://www.startribune.com/, March 18, 2021 By: Jennifer Bjorhus Dozens of closed dumps are leaking high levels of the toxic man-made PFAS “forever chemicals” into groundwater around Minnesota, and pollution regulators want more money to determine the full scope of the problem. Groundwater at one landfill, near the Iowa border, shows PFAS contamination more than 1,000 […]

Source: https://undark.org/, March 16, 2021 By: Nick Bowlin WHEN AN OIL or gas well reaches the end of its lifespan, it must be plugged. If it isn’t, the well might leak toxic chemicals into groundwater and spew methane, carbon dioxide, and other pollutants into the atmosphere for years on end. But plugging a well is no […]

Source: https://www.courthousenews.com/, March 15, 2021 By: Nicholas Iovino Pacific Gas and Electric will pay to remove soil possibly tainted by century-old gas plants and investigate groundwater contamination in a San Francisco shoreline area under the terms of a deal announced Monday. The agreement represents the third and final settlement reached in a lawsuit filed in 2014 […]

Source: https://buffalonews.com/, March 14, 2021 By: Thomas J. Prohaska The City of Lockport is liable for an environmental cleanup on the site of a proposed Dollar General store, owner David L. Ulrich said Friday. The Common Council is scheduled to vote Wednesday on paying Ulrich to cover the costs of the removal of buried contamination […]

Source: https://mtstandard.com/, March 14, 2021 By: Michael Cast With permission from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, crews have begun excavating diesel-contaminated soil at the Town Pump at Harrison and Elizabeth Warren avenues in Butte. Red Mountain Truck Lines overfilled an underground storage tank at the Town Pump on Jan. 30, causing 485 gallons of […]

Source: https://www.courier-journal.com/, March 10, 2021 By: Phil McKenna and James Bruggers A chemical plant here that makes a raw material for everything from Teflon to lubricants used on the International Space Station also appears to do more damage to the climate than all of this city’s passenger vehicles. The Chemours Louisville Works along the banks […]

Source: https://www.azcentral.com/, March 10, 2021 By: Joshua Bowling The same “forever chemicals” contaminating drinking water near Luke Air Force Base have been found in southeast Mesa’s groundwater near Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. A December report from the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center found high levels of the contaminants perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, and perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, […]

Source: https://www.mainepublic.org/, March 8, 2021 By: Charlie Eichacker A new lawsuit claims that a Skowhegan paper mill is responsible for the toxic chemicals that are now being found in dangerous levels in the well water of a neighboring community. For five years, Fairfield residents have felt a growing sense of alarm about that class of […]