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August 5, 2025

2 dead and at least 58 sick from growing Legionnaires’ disease cluster in New York City

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/, August 5, 2025 By: Jon Haworth Two people have died and at least 58 people have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease in a cluster that broke out in the Harlem area of New York City last week, officials said on Monday. The New York City Health Department had reported on Thursday that one person had […]

August 4, 2025

Central Cambria looking for insurance help as mold cleanup costs could be nearly $1M

Source: https://wjactv.com/, August 2, 2025 By: Brock Owens As the new school year approaches, Central Cambria School District continues dealing with a mold issue discovered in its elementary school in July. Superintendent Jason Moore revealed that the mold, identified as a common type of Aspergillus, was found in July on desks and chairs by teachers. Aspergillus molds are generally […]

August 1, 2025

Perdue faces 2nd lawsuit over water contaminated with ‘forever chemicals’ in Salisbury

Source: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/, August 1, 2025 By: Matti Gellman Agribusiness giant Perdue is facing a second lawsuit from Salisbury residents who want to stop the company from releasing its wastewater into the ground. Two Salisbury plaintiffs allege that water contamination from a soybean oil refinery at the Perdue site on Zion Church Road is harming their […]

July 31, 2025

1 dead and at least 22 sick from Legionnaires’ disease cluster in New York City

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/, July 31, 2025 By: Jon Haworth One person is dead and at least 22 people have become sick from a Legionnaires’ disease cluster in New York City since last Friday, health officials said. The New York City Health Department provided an update on Thursday into its investigation of a community cluster of Legionnaires’ disease in the Harlem […]

July 24, 2025

Tanker Truck Crashes and Spills Fuel Into a Creek on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 24, 2025 By: Hallie Golden A tanker truck crashed into a creek on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula last Friday, spilling fuel into a tributary of a river where salmon runs were recently restored after a decades-long fight to remove its dams. A spokesperson for Gov. Bob Ferguson’s office said the petroleum spill in […]

July 21, 2025

Roughly 800 gallons of gas spills at Wawa in Wildwood, New Jersey

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/, July 20, 2025 By: Tom Ignudo A tanker truck spilled about 800 gallons of fuel at a Wawa in Wildwood, New Jersey, on Sunday, according to the fire department. The spill happened at the Wawa at 418 West Rio Grande Avenue. The Wildwood Fire Department said some streets near Wawa were closed as […]

July 15, 2025

New Mexico sues US air force over Pfas pollution from military base

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, July 10, 2025 By: Tom Perkins The state of New Mexico is suing the US air force over its refusal to comply with orders to address extremely high levels of Pfas pollution stemming from its base, which has tainted drinking water for tens of thousands of people, damaged crops and poisoned dairy cows. Though the […]

July 14, 2025

Cleanup Ordered After Battery Fire at San Diego Energy Storage Facility

Source: https://eponline.com/, July 8, 2025 By: Stasia DeMarco The EPA has settled with Gateway Energy Storage, LLC, to conduct a full environmental cleanup following a lithium-ion battery fire at the company’s energy storage facility in San Diego. The fire, which began on May 15, 2024, involved 14,800 nickel-manganese-cobalt lithium-ion batteries. It continued to flare intermittently […]

July 9, 2025

More than $900 million awarded to clients from PFAS water contamination settlement

Source: https://www.waterworld.com/, July 8, 2025 SL Environmental Law Group announced on June 18, 2025, that funds from the 3M and DuPont water settlements – the largest of their kind in U.S. history according to the group – are now being released to relieve water providers of some of the financial burden of removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl […]

July 7, 2025

NJ sues Branchburg firm over pollution

Source: https://www.mycentraljersey.com/, July 7, 2025 By: Mike Deak The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has filed suit against a longtime Readington Road business to recoup the DEP’s related costs of the “cleanup and removal” of contamination from the property. In the suit filed June 20 in Somerset County Superior Court, the DEP is seeking […]

July 3, 2025

Honolulu water board sues Navy for $1.2B over fuel leak that contaminated drinking water

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/, July 2, 2025 By: Alexandra Koch The Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Navy, seeking more than $1 billion after the military branch released petroleum and other hazardous chemicals into Oʻahu, Hawaii‘s sole source of drinking water. During the incident, 27,000 gallons of toxic jet […]

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 […]

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