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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]