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 […]

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/, April 4, 2024 By: Theresa Clift The Sacramento County district attorney’s office has sued a state agency alleging that storage tanks are leaking hazardous substances under several downtown buildings, including the state Capitol. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court against the California Department of General Services, alleges the leakages are also […]

Source: https://nypost.com/, April 1, 2024 By: Audrey Conklin North Carolina State University in Raleigh continues to investigate student and alumni exposure to concerning levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a probable carcinogen, in one of its campus buildings that the school officially shut down in November of last year. Read more.

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/, March 28, 2024 The U.S. military said it’s finished draining million of gallons of fuel from an underground fuel tank complex in Hawaii that poisoned 6,000 people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water in 2021. Joint Task Force Red Hill began defueling the tanks in October after completing months of […]

Source: https://www.ktvb.com/, March 25, 2024 By: Abby Davis On Saturday morning, the strong smell of fuel led Jeremy Schmerber to walk along Mason Creek, which runs near his RV in Nampa. He quickly realized something was wrong. “If you catch it at the right angle with the sun out, you can still see [the fuel], he […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, March 21, 2024 By: Kenneth Araullo Travelers is officially safe from a potentially huge lawsuit after an appeals court ruled against a food supplier. In a recent judgment, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that Gold Coast Commodities Inc, a firm specializing in transforming used cooking oil and vegetable byproducts […]

Source: https://rcbizjournal.com/, February 26, 2024 Thruway Plaza at 308-330 Route 59 in Nanuet has applied to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Brownfield Cleanup Program to remediate chlorinated solvents and petroleum products in the groundwater at the site. The likely source of the groundwater pollution was a dry-cleaning facility that operated at the […]

Source: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/, February 26, 2024 By: Jared Strong A dairy farm near Decorah that has been repeatedly cited by state regulators for manure releases was recently fined $8,000 for contaminating a tributary of a prominent creek that flows through the town. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources found in April 2023 that the farm operated […]