Source: https://www.newscentermaine.com/, December 4, 2020 By: Vivien Leigh More than a dozen homeowners in the town of Fairfield are being advised to use bottled water after their well water was found to be tainted with high levels of “forever chemicals.” Investigators from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) have tested nearly 40 residential wells […]

Source: https://www.ocregister.com/, December 2, 2020 By: Martin Wisckol Eleven Orange County water agencies have joined in a lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars from DuPont, 3M and others whose carcinogenic chemicals have leached into groundwater aquifers and forced the closure of more than three dozen wells in the central and northern parts of the […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, December 1, 2020 By: Jonathan Stempel A federal judge has rejected Bayer AG’s proposed $648 million settlement of class-action litigation by cities and other claimants over contamination from polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, made by the former Monsanto Co. In a Nov. 25 decision, U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin in Los Angeles said the accord appeared […]

Source: https://vtdigger.org/, April 12, 2020 By: Elizabeth Gribkoff The long-standing practice of spreading treated sewage sludge and septage on farm fields has contaminated groundwater in some areas with PFAS, recent sampling shows. The discovery has prompted a state agriculture official to say that a prohibition on harvesting feed and crops from those fields may be […]

Source: https://www.greatlakesnow.org/, September 13, 2019 For more than 20 years, the eastern Michigan town of Lapeer sent leftover sludge from its sewage treatment plant to area farms, supplying them with high-quality, free fertilizer while avoiding the expense of disposal elsewhere. But state inspectors ordered a halt to the practice in 2017 after learning the material […]

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/, July 24, 2020 By: Kevin Miller Milk from a Central Maine dairy farm contained levels of a harmful “forever chemical” that were 60 to 150 times higher than health standards, triggering a state investigation and raising new concerns about PFAS contamination on farms. The levels of contamination in the farm’s milk are the […]

Source: ttps://www.epa.gov, August 20, 2020 Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $4.8 million in research funding to three institutions to better understand the potential impacts of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on water quality and availability in rural communities and agricultural operations across the United States. These grant awards build on the agency’s […]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, November 30, 2020 By: Jonathan Stempel A federal judge has rejected Bayer AG’s proposed $648 million settlement of class-action litigation by cities and other claimants over contamination from polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, made by the former Monsanto Co. In a Nov. 25 decision, U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin in Los Angeles said the […]

Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/, December 1, 2020 By: David Abel For two decades, state environmental officials have used a controversial pesticide to kill mosquitoes in Massachusetts, spraying millions of acres from the air and ground to reduce the spread of Eastern equine encephalitis. Now, after years of criticism from environmental advocates who have long raised health concerns […]

Source: https://www.sanjoseinside.com/, December 1, 2020 By: Rachel Becker In the weeks before the coronavirus began tearing through California, the city of Commerce made an expensive decision: it shut down part of its water supply. Like nearly 150 other public water systems in California, the small city on the outskirts of Los Angeles had detected “forever chemicals” […]

Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/, November 23, 2020 PFAS compounds are not the first emerging contaminants to be addressed by environmental agencies, scientists, regulated entities, engineering consultants and lawyers. Chlorinated solvents, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), mercury, and other organic and inorganic substances have at one point or another been considered “emerging” from scientific and regulatory perspectives. As a general matter, all […]

Source: https://riverheadlocal.com/, November 21, 2020 By: Denise Civiletti Data released by the Navy this week for the first time show significant detections of toxic PFAS chemicals at the southern border of the former aerospace manufacturing site. Detection of the chemicals at the southern boundary of the site is significant, because it supports the position of […]