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May 22, 2025

Alabama Power threatened with lawsuit for contaminating groundwater with coal ash

Source: https://wbhm.org/, May 21, 2025 By: Dennis Pillion and Lee Hedgepeth, Inside Climate News Cruising upstream on the Coosa River through downtown Gadsden, it would be easy to miss the old coal ash pond sitting on the north bank of the river. It’s mostly hidden by trees and bushes, except for a narrow opening with […]

May 19, 2025

Nearly half of Pasadena Unified schools have contaminated soil, district finds

Source: https://dnyuz.com/, May 16, 2025 Eleven of the 23 Pasadena Unified School District schools, where students have been back on campus since January, have contaminated soil following the Eaton fire, the district found. Over 40% of the schools had lead at levels exceeding the state’s health-based limits for residential soil, and over 20% had arsenic […]

May 19, 2025

Landmark trial pits NJ against DuPont over ‘forever chemical’ pollution in South Jersey

Source: https://www.njspotlightnews.org/, May 19, 2025 By: Michael Sol Warren New Jersey’s lawsuit against the chemical giant DuPont and its spinoff Chemours over pollution of toxic “forever chemicals” at a sprawling site in South Jersey reached the trial phase Monday, with arguments kicking off in federal court in Camden. The proceedings come roughly six years after state […]

May 16, 2025

Toxic waste cleanup of former dry cleaning site in Great Barrington is slated to begin this summer

Source: https://www.berkshireeagle.com/, May 14, 2025 By: Heather Bellow Residents will have a chance to weigh in on how the town should clean up toxic waste this summer from a former dry cleaner on Main Street. The town’s Planning Department is holding a public meeting on May 21 at Town Hall to review comments on a plan […]

May 14, 2025

Landfill Contamination Migrates to Adjacent Property

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/ Operators of a construction and demolition waste landfill were sued by an adjacent property owner who alleged that contamination from the landfill had migrated onto their land. The complaint alleged that the landfill operator accepted various liquid wastes which subsequently contaminated the groundwater. As a result of the contamination, residents developed unspecified health […]

May 13, 2025

3M reaches PFAS settlement with New Jersey worth up to $450 million

Source: https://www.startribune.com/, May 13, 2025 By: Brooks Johnson 3M will pay the state of New Jersey up to $450 million through the next 25 years to settle claims of PFAS contamination. The Maplewood-based manufacturer sold the “forever chemicals” to the DuPont Chambers Works facility in the Garden State for many years. Chemours, a spinoff of […]

May 8, 2025

Contaminated soil at rail projects could add $2.4M to price tag

Source: https://www.barrietoday.com/, May 6, 2024 By: Bob Bruton Barrie’s two major transit developments face higher costs due to an unanticipated, additional amount of contaminated soil, extended archaeological monitoring and investigations, and the complex requirements of working adjacent to a Metrolinx rail corridor. Affected are the Allandale and Downtown Transit Mobility Hubs, and Allandale Historic Train […]

May 7, 2025

This toxic chemical is leaking out of nondescript warehouses across the country. Almost no one knows about it

Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/, April 17 2025 By: Grist, Lylla Younes, and Naveena Sadasivam By January 2018, Vanessa Dominguez and her husband had been flirting with moving to a different neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, for a few years. Their daughter was enrolled in one of the best elementary schools in the county, but because the family […]

May 6, 2025

NE Georgia community ruffled over planned poultry processing plant’s potential for river pollution

Source: https://georgiarecorder.com/, May 5, 2025 By: Stanley Dunlap Agriculture is Georgia’s top industry, and broilers are the state’s top farm product. But the mess that large-scale poultry farming causes can create tensions between residents and corporate owners. And that is playing out in a northeast Georgia community, where a proposed poultry rendering plant has residents […]

May 5, 2025

A group of Wichita neighbors are suing Textron for a chemical plume under their homes

Source: https://www.kcur.org/, May 5, 2025 By: Meg Britton-Mehlisch A chemical plume of trichloroethylene, or TCE, was discovered in the 1990s and traced back to an airplane manufacturing plant in east Wichita. A group of neighbors living near Central and Webb said in a new filing in Sedgwick County District Court this month that the airplane […]

April 30, 2025

Cleaning crew mixes Drano, bleach together, leading to Hazmat incident at Colorado Springs nursing home

Source: https://www.kktv.com/, April 22, 2025 By: Lindsey Grewe A nursing and rehab facility was evacuated Tuesday after firefighters say a chemical mix-up created a vapor cloud inside the building. The Colorado Springs Fire Department says it was called to the Gardens Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation on the far west side of Colorado Springs a little […]

April 24, 2025

Pollutants Seep into Water Supply

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com An old wastewater treatment plant had undergone several renovations throughout the years. Improper closure of an old clarifier and on-site surface impoundment resulted in gradual seepage of pollutants into the central water supply for a neighboring community. Extensive groundwater remediation and emergency water supply for residents was required. Read more.

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