Read here about a Superfund site in Montana where contamination resulted from a former dry cleaner could take more than 30 years to clean up.

Source: Mail Tribune (Medford, OR), December 6, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A downtown Ashland hotel is under investigation for illegally discharging water containing potentially fish-killing toxics into Ashland Creek when its heating and air-conditioning system malfunctioned recently, authorities said. The Ashland Springs Hotel’s heating and air-conditioning unit overflowed on Nov. 19, causing water treated with […]

Source: San Mateo County Times (CA), November 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Sausage maker Columbus Foods Inc. has settled a lawsuit filed by its neighbor Genentech over a large-scale noxious ammonia leak in South San Francisco that sickened nearly three dozen of the biotech giant’s employees in 2009. According to a statement from Genentech, the […]

Source: http://www.foxnews.com, October 27, 2011 Hundreds of students in Maryland will get a crash course in water-borne living when they are moved onto a cruise ship this weekend to escape the mold that has overtaken their college dorm rooms. The students from St. Mary’s College are being forced off-campus by wet weather that has dogged […]

Source: http://content.usatoday.com, October 3, 2011 By: Douglas Stanglin A massive industrial fire at a chemical processing plant is sending plumes of black smoke into the sky near Waxahachie, in north-central Texas, The Dallas Morning News reports. The fire began before noon at the Magnablend chemical processing plant and quickly spread as a burning liquid. At one […]

Read here about a Texas company that paid a hefty fine for a wetlands violation.

Read here about two New Hampshire companies who will pay $200,000 for Clean Water Act violations.

Source: USA Today, September 16, 2011 Pennsylvania: Turtle Creek – The Allegheny County Health Department said 10 cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been discovered, two at the Hamilton Hills Personal Care Facility and eight at the nearby LGAR Health & Rehabilitation Center.  Water supplies at both facilities are being treated.  The cause of the outbreak […]

Source: http://www.latimes.com, September 15, 2011 By: Sam Quinones U.S. EPA orders the defense contractor to pay for a system to clean up a shallow aquifer in the San Gabriel Valley. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered defense contractor Northrop Grumman to pay $20 million for a system to clean up contamination in shallow groundwater […]

Read here about how fumes at a McDonald’s in Georgia sent 9 people to the hospital.

Source: Baltimore Sun, September 1, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A pipeline carrying raw sewage from a western Baltimore County pumping station to a treatment plant in the city has spilled more than 70 million gallons into the Patapsco River since it ruptured over the weekend. The county said the breach, reported late Sunday, would be […]

Read here about a group of Louisville employees who are suing after allegedly being sickened by mold exposure.