Source: https://environmentallawmonitor.com/, August 21, 2025 By: Larry D. Mason On August 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in Sommerville v. Union Carbide Corp., reversing the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the plant owner defendants. In […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, August 11, 2025 By: Tom Perkins Wastewater from an industrial soya bean farm and processor has poisoned a Maryland town’s drinking water with Pfas, several lawsuits allege, raising questions about residents’ health and “forever chemical” pollution from industrial agricultural operations nationwide. Perdue Farms acknowledged that its 300-acre Salisbury, Maryland, operation is polluting local waters, but […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]