Source: https://www.politico.com/, May 23, 2024 By: Alex Guillen and Chris Marquette Norfolk Southern will pay just over $500 million — $310 in environmental cleanup and $200 million for rail safety upgrades — as a result of last year’s disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the Biden administration announced on Thursday. The proposed settlement, reached […]

Source: https://www.seattlepi.com/, May 29, 2024 By: Jordan Gass-Poore, The Uproot Project For more than a decade, some residents of the tiny Richmond, Rhode Island, neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks buried under service stations a few hundred yards from their […]

Source: https://apnews.com/, May 21, 2024 A Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than $30 million in connection with two explosions that injured workers and caused the evacuation of thousands, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday. The explosions at a TPC Group plant in the […]

Source: https://www.northjersey.com/, May 16, 2024 By: Kyle Morel New Jersey officials agreed to a $14 million settlement in a 2019 lawsuit involving groundwater contamination at a Montvale facility, the attorney general’s office stated Thursday. The settlement marks a resolution to the suit, filed in December 2019 against the Handy & Harman Electronic Materials Corp. and Cycle Chem Inc., […]

Source: https://www.king5.com/, May 2, 2024 A Washington state appeals court overturned a ruling Wednesday that awarded three Monroe teachers millions in damages over chemical exposure at Sky Valley Education Center. The teachers sued Missouri-based Monsanto and were initially awarded $18 million, $17 million and $15 million respectively, including $45 million each in punitive damages. Read more

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, April 18, 2023 An attorney for two people who died of a rare lung cancer argued this week for a jury to hold BNSF Railway responsible for pollution in a small Montana town near the U.S.-Canada border where thousands of people were exposed to toxic asbestos dust. The railroad — now owned by […]

Source: https://www.register-herald.com/, April 17, 2024 By: Erin Beck Robin Fox remembers the first sign that something was wrong with her husband Mark. “That was three years before we knew about the water,” she said. First, he began slurring his speech. Though Mark was once the picture of health, his muscle function rapidly deteriorated until he […]

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/, April 12, 2023 By: Stephen Singer Monsanto, the giant biochemical manufacturer, knowingly polluted streams, rivers, estuaries and wetlands in Maine for years with PCBs before the carcinogenic chemical compound was banned by federal law in the 1970s, the state said in a lawsuit filed Friday. The suit, filed in Cumberland County Superior Court, accuses Monsanto […]

Source: https://www.sunjournal.com/, April 15, 2024 By: Penelope Overton Some of Maine’s defunct landfills are leaking potentially harmful forever chemicals into the drinking water supplies of nearby homes at levels that are up to 100 times higher than what Maine deems safe to drink. Data released to the Press Herald show 23 closed landfills from Kittery […]

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/, April 13, 2024 Large chemical drums found buried at a local park on Long Island have reignited anger and outrage from area officials and residents who have long feared that the park’s past may be linked to cancer’s prevalence in the community. The latest discovery has left some to believe there are more secrets to […]

Source: https://scnow.com/, April 14, 2024 By: Sammy Fretwell and Morgan Hughes Utilities across South Carolina face hundreds of millions of dollars in costs to cleanse drinking water of harmful “forever chemicals’’ now that the federal government has finalized a rule to make water safe from the potentially cancer-causing toxins. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule, […]

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/, April 11, 2024 By: Paul Schwartzman For years, neighbors puzzled over the source of a burning stench pervading their blue-collar corner of Northeast Washington. The odor has been foul enough at times that they say they have shut their windows and stayed indoors. The list of suspected causes in Ivy City — an epicenter in […]