Source: https://www.thecooldown.com/, February 26, 2025 By: Zachary Ehrmann Texas ranchers are facing devastating losses after fertilizer contaminated with dangerous per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances poisoned their livestock and land. A recent article in The Texas Tribune highlighted growing concerns about these toxic chemicals entering the food supply. What’s happening? Multiple Texas farming families have discovered that their land and animals […]

Source: https://www.jsonline.com/, February 4, 2025 By: Tamia Fowlkes Since the early 2000s, the city and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District have spent millions of dollars cleaning up carcinogenic chemicals from its sewers and waterways. That’s according to an ongoing lawsuit filed by the sewerage district and the City of Milwaukee against Monsanto, the chemical manufacturer now owned […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, January 27, 2025 By: Tom Perkins The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, a new lawsuit alleges. It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant […]

Source: https://www.latimes.com/, April 22, 2024 By: Tony Briscoe For years, school district officials had grand designs to revamp the campus of McKinley Elementary in Santa Monica. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District intended to build a two-story building with eight state-of-the-art classrooms and a modernized front office. The project had already been funded by a […]

Source: https://www.law.com/, January 8, 2025 By: Colleen Murphy Illinois Union Insurance, a Chubb subsidiary, was slapped with a federal insurance coverage lawsuit by Shamrock Technologies over the insurer’s refusal to provide coverage for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) remediation. Shamrock alleged that Illinois has a duty to defend and pay for loss under their umbrella […]

Source: https://www.wmbfnews.com/, January 9, 2024 By: Dylan Leatherwood The City of Georgetown and the Georgetown County Water & Sewer District are filing lawsuits over alleged PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, in the county’s drinking water. Both lawsuits, filed on Monday, name multiple defendants, most notably Fiber Industries, which owns and operates a textile mill […]

Source: https://wjla.com/, December 18, 2024 By: Scott Taylor Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown just filed a complaint in U.S. District Court saying W. L. Gore & Associates is putting residents’ health at risk with contamination from PFAS. W.L. Gore denies the allegations in the lawsuit and calls itself a responsible manufacturer. Read more.

Source: https://riskandinsurance.com/, October 28, 2024 By: Dan Reynolds Dan Reynolds, editor-in-chief of Risk & Insurance, recently sat down with Trevor Salman, assistant vice president of environmental underwriting at Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY), to discuss the impact of climate change on insurance exposures and the evolution of environmental underwriting. Read more.

Source: https://www.wvnews.com/, October 24, 2024 By: Nicki Skinner The Taylor County Board of Education met to discuss the potential for environmental concerns centering on a below-ground fuel storage tank on the Taylor County Bus Garage grounds. According to Superintendent John Stallings, the underground tank has far exceeded its life expectancy and could potentially cause issues, […]

Source: https://www.wboc.com/, October 15, 2024 By: Hunter Landon The Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) has identified Perdue Farms as a “responsible person” in an ongoing investigation into groundwater contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly referred to as “forever chemicals.” The company acknowledged its designation, stating that it will retain this status until […]

Source: https://www.msn.com/, August 13, 2024 By: Marlene Lenthang Five people have developed Legionnaires’ disease following possible exposure to contaminated water droplets from a cooling tower in downtown Lincoln, New Hampshire, state health officials say. The five people developed the disease —  a severe form of pneumonia caused by Legionella bacteria — in June and July, New […]

Source: https://www.nbcchicago.com/, October 11, 2024 By: Mary Norkol The YWCA Evanston/North Shore has temporarily closed to the public after two cases of Legionnaire’s disease were linked to the center. Doors to the YWCA, 1215 Church Ave., were locked Friday afternoon and a sign informed people that all aquatics programming was canceled. An employee confirmed the […]