Source: http://www.bellinghamherald.com, August 26, 2011 By: Kie Relyea Cleanup of a former municipal landfill at Little Squalicum Park began this week, as crews started the project to dig up what will be a total of 2,400 cubic yards of contaminated soil and old solid waste. The work will continue into late September. It is expected to […]

Source: http://www.azcentral.com, August 28, 2011 By: Art Thomason It’s labeled Site ST035 on an environmental-cleanup map. But more people know it as the location of the former Williams Air Force Base gas station, where leaking fuel contaminated the soil and groundwater with benzene and other pollutants for decades. Today even more people know the site […]

Source: http://www.lenconnect.com, August 30, 2011 By: Dennis Pelham More than 60 property owners could file separate lawsuits over groundwater pollution from the Tecumseh Products  Co. plant in Tecumseh after a judge denied class action status on Monday. “I do not like the idea of inviting 60-some litigants,” said Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M.S. Noe. […]

Read here about the cause of too much chlorine being pushed into a wave pool at a Sacramento water park.

Read here about a hotel on the Las Vegas strip that is being sued by former guests for alleged exposure to Legionnaires’ disease.

Read here about owners of a chemical plant who have agreed to pay over $ million to help pay for cleanup costs resulting from an explosion that occurred in 2006.

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, August 11, 2011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com The family that purchased a contaminated former thermometer factory in Gloucester County and converted it into the Kiddie Kollege day care in 2004 is liable for the roughly $1 million New Jersey paid to clean up and demolish the building under an appeals court ruling issued […]

Source: Connecticut Post, August 5, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Board of Estimate and Taxation voted Thursday night to release $1.3 million from the Greenwich High School auditorium project to address contaminated soil found last month during a parking lot expansion. An additional $152,000 for environmental testing will have to come from the school district, […]

Source: http://poststar.com, August 2, 2011 By: Lydia Wheeler The state has reached a settlement with the owners of a Kingsbury junkyard and the owner of a company that crushed cars at the site over environmental damage caused by pollution from the junkyard operations, the state Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday. Under the settlement, James Marro, […]

Read here about a city in Wisconsin that has agreed to pay $270,000 to settle an asbestos lawsuit.

Source: http://omahanewsstand.com, July 28, 2011 By: Rachael Ruybalid A groundwater contaminant at the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant wandered where it wasn’t wanted this spring. During quarterly sampling in January and April at the perimeter monitoring well 116, trichloroethene (TCE), a solvent, was discovered in amounts exceeding the federal drinking water standards. “We suspect an irrigation well […]

Source: http://www.greenwichtime.com, July 30, 2011 By: Neil Vigdor Rich Albonizio is used to calling audibles. But the head football coach at Greenwich High School might be hard-pressed to find something in the playbook for the latest challenge facing his Cardinals team. Three weeks before the start of practice, the discovery of soil contamination at a nearby […]