Source: https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/, September 10, 2020 By: Greg Barnes Months after DuPont bought the rights to produce Perfluorooctanoic acid (known as PFOA or C8) from Minnesota’s 3M Corp. in 2002, DuPont discovered that the suspected carcinogen used to make Teflon had leaked into the groundwater under the company’s Fayetteville Works plant. Except for some local newspaper […]

Source: https://truthout.org/, September 9, 2020 By: Caitlin Proctor & Andrew Whelton As schools cautiously reopen for the fall semester, several have discovered potentially harmful bacteria in their water systems. Parents are likely concerned about what this means for their children, and other districts may be checking their own water’s safety. As researchers who investigate water […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, September 4, 2020 By: Garret Ellison Michigan regulators have signed a $35.2 million settlement with a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corp. to pay for toxic site cleanup at dozens of gas stations where leaking underground storage tanks were discovered. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and Attorney General Dana Nessel’s […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, September 8, 2020 South Carolina sued the owner of a site where a massive pile of trash burned and smoldered for months, demanding $5 million to pay back what the state spent to put out the fire and clean up the site. Able Contracting Inc. and Earlbee LLC accumulated debris in a mound […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, September 1, 2020 By: Todd O. Maiden and Eric J. Schmoll, Reed Smith LLP The California legislature is sending a bill (SB 1044) to Governor Gavin Newsom that would significantly affect the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (“PFAS”) chemicals in firefighting foam. Specifically, the bill prohibits the manufacture, sale and use of class B firefighting […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, September 2, 2020 Indianapolis Power & Light Co. has agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in penalties to resolve pollution issues at its Petersburg Generating Station in southwestern Indiana. IPL will pay a civil penalty of $1.525 million, with $925,000 going to the federal government and $600,000 to the state of Indiana, […]

Source: https://www.coloradoan.com/, September 2, 2020 By: Pat Ferrier A 12-story office tower in downtown Fort Collins has been shuttered since mid-August after a major asbestos spill occurred during renovations. The spill was reported to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on Aug. 6, just as some businesses had returned to their offices amid […]

Source: https://www.delmarvanow.com/, September 2, 2020 By: Julia Rentsch The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will designate the town of Blades, Del., a Superfund site for the purpose of cleaning up industrial chemicals contaminating the town’s groundwater. The listing is primarily related to cleaning up metals associated with electroplating compounds, the EPA announced Wednesday in a news release. […]

Source: https://www.nny360.com/, September 2, 2020 By: Ellis Giacomelli The state Department of Environmental Conservation continues to monitor a chemical gas leak from a stationary rail car at the SABIC Innovative Chemicals facility in Albany County. First reported early Tuesday morning, the leak led to the evacuation of non-essential businesses within a half-mile of the facility, […]

Source: https://kjzz.org/, September 1, 2020 By: Nicholas Gerbis The coronavirus pandemic has shuttered many buildings. As prospects for reopening rise, so too does the need to contend with water systems potentially contaminated during the shutdown. Stagnant water in pipes or tanks can breed microorganisms like Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease. Read more.

Source: https://www.msn.com/, September 1, 2020 By: Elizabeth Elkind Health officials are warning parents and students returning to in-person instruction that COVID-19 might not be the only health risk they should be concerned about. Traces of Legionella — Legionnaires disease — have been found at multiple schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania after months of sitting empty during the pandemic-related lockdowns.  […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, September 2, 2020 By: Garret Ellison A major national packaging company is accused of failing to control noxious odors and dust around one of its Michigan paper mills in a new class action lawsuit. Graphic Packaging International is named as a defendant in a complaint filed Tuesday, Sept. 1 in U.S. District Court […]