Source: https://riverheadlocal.com/, December 17, 2020 By: Denise Civiletti Tests on drinking water from 95 residential wells in Manorville just south of the former Grumman manufacturing plant have detected PFOS, PFOA and a host of other contaminants — with some levels exceeding state and federal drinking water standards. The contaminants included various volatile organic compounds — […]

Source: https://patch.com/, December 18, 2020 By: Eric Kiefer New Jersey state officials launched seven new environmental lawsuits on Friday, including a suit involving the site of a former dry-cleaning business in Livingston. The seven unrelated complaints address a broad array of environmental harms linked to the “unlawful discharge and storage of hazardous chemicals,” Attorney General […]

Source: https://www.usnews.com/, December 16, 2020 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has filed a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars from the state of Delaware for costs associated with the clean-up of lead-contaminated material at Fort DuPont State Park. The lawsuit filed Wednesday claims the federal government is owed some $3.8 million for cleaning up lead-contaminated material more than […]

Source: https://www.wortfm.org/, December 16, 2020 The Environmental Protection Agency advises against drinking water that contains more than 70 parts per trillion of PFAS, a family of hazardous chemicals that are sometimes called forever chemicals. Yesterday, the City of Madison announced new test results at the Dane County Airport finding PFAS contamination at levels thousands of times […]

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/, December 16, 2020 By: Scott Bauer Prevention of future pollution from forever chemicals known as PFAS, while also developing ways to reduce the use of the chemicals, are among the recommendations included in a Wisconsin action plan released Wednesday by Gov. Tony Evers’ administration after a year of study. Nearly 20 state agencies, […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, December 17, 2020 Imagine that a small group of people coordinated the intentional manufacture and release of a lethal poison – and imagine they knew this poison had special properties that meant, once released into the world, it would be inevitable that it would make its way into the blood of virtually every […]

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/, December 15, 2020 By: Jennifer Van Grove Following extensive litigation and investigation, Lockheed Martin is expected to soon begin work on a state-ordered — and court-mandated — environmental remediation project meant to clean up a portion of San Diego Bay’s Harbor Island East Basin that was subject to decades of pollution. Last week, […]

Source: https://news.azpm.org/, December 11, 2020 By: Ariana Brocious Close to 20 backup groundwater wells for the city of Tucson have been contaminated by a group of man-made chemicals known as PFAS, which stands for perfluorinated alkyl substances. Now, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is working to clean up and limit the spread of the […]

Source: https://www.ecowatch.com/, December 11, 2020 By: Olivia Rosane A Kinder Morgan pipeline leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline into a waterway in Walnut Creek, California, prompting concerns from residents worried about the company’s safety record. Locals are mistrustful of the company after a 2004 explosion on the same line killed five construction workers and injured four […]

Source: https://www.nny360.com/, December 11, 2020 By: Randy Pellis Finding lead, barium and arsenic four feet beneath Oswego High School’s Wilber Field has put a bit of a crimp in the district’s $63 million capital project and may necessitate a re-evaluation of some of the project’s future components, according to Oswego City School District Superintendent Mathis […]

Source: https://www.theadvocate.com/, December 8, 2020 By: Claire Taylor The St. Landry Parish government and the village of Cankton are suing more than 25 companies, including Chevron, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips, over alleged groundwater contamination from a former 80-acre oilfield waste disposal site about 15 miles from Lafayette. Lafayette attorney William Goodell, representing the parish and […]

Source: https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/, December 8, 2020 By: Hannah Hagemann The County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed a measure that will give the State Department of Finance more time to review a mixed-use affordable housing project poised to be built at 1500 Capitola Road. The project would include 57 affordable housing units, a Dientes dental clinic, […]