Source: https://www.westsidecurrent.com/, February 16, 2024 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is suing an insurance company for allegedly breaching a contract to provide pollution cleanup cost coverage at its facilities that were associated with the coronavirus pandemic. Cedars-Sinai’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit seeks unspecified damages with interest from AIG Specialty Insurance Co. as well as attorneys’ fees […]

Source: https://www.ehn.org/, February 21, 2024 By: Shannon Kelleher Two Texas farm families have seen their health decline, their pets and livestock sickened and killed, their water poisoned and and their property values wiped out due to high levels of chemical contamination linked to a company marketing treated sewage sludge as a fertilizer and soil conditioner, […]

Source: https://www.providencejournal.com/, February 21, 2024 By: Alex Kuffner A defunct machine-parts factory that contaminated wells around Peck Hill Road decades ago may again be threatening public health in the area, this time through vapor-forming solvents possibly entering nearby homes and businesses. Environmental authorities have obtained a warrant to access the 4-acre site on Peck Hill Road […]

Source: https://www.nj.com/, February 14, 2024 By: Karin Price Mueller The Renaissance Newark Airport Hotel is warning guests at the check-in desk not to take showers at the hotel because of ongoing water testing after two guests last year were diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, a serious form of pneumonia. In a letter handed to guests when they check in, the hotel […]

Source: https://www.ksdk.com/, January 20, 2024 By: Mercedes Mackay A pair of St. Louis business owners are suing their landlords after lead contamination forced them to close their café on Delmar. Brew Tulum owner, Laura McNamara, said they are speaking out in hopes of change. Read more.

Source: https://yaledailynews.com/, January 18, 2024 By: Natasha Khazzam & Arela Lopez Fourteen people were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning on Wednesday morning following a construction-site gas leak at 73 Howe St. Emergency responders determined that the Yale-hired construction firm, Babbidge Construction Company, had not been using carbon monoxide detectors. The carbon monoxide exposure originated from […]

Source: https://turnto10.com, January 16, 2024 A New Hampshire resort hot tub is believed to be the source of Legionella exposure last month. Officials said it happened at the Mountain View Grand Resort and Spa in Whitefield. Read more.

Source: https://www.thecooldown.com/, January 16, 2024 By: Susan Elizabeth Turek A group of seven former students and parent volunteers are reportedly set to receive a payout of nearly $1 billion after they were reportedly exposed to and sickened by toxic chemicals leaking from light fixtures. Reuters reported Dec. 18 that a Washington state jury found that Monsanto, […]

Source: https://localnewsmatters.org/, December 24, 2023 By: Joshua Picazo A high concentration of harmful chemicals that are known to cause cancer were found near the site of a former dry cleaning business in Richmond, a local health agency said Thursday. Contra Costa Health, which alerts the public to safety hazards, said the California Department of Toxic […]

Source: https://www.northcentralpa.com/, January 3, 2024  Following an investigation of chemical contamination that has reportedly spread across three townships in Greene County, Pa., the PA Department of Environmental Protection has determined a shale gas operator is responsible. According to a report in the PA Environment Digest, the DEP posted an inspection report for the Mohr A and […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, December 18, 2023 A jury in Washington state on Monday ordered Bayer’s Monsanto to pay $857m to former students and parent volunteers of a school north-east of Seattle who claimed that chemicals known as PCBs made by the company leaked from light fixtures and made them sick, according to an attorney for the plaintiffs. […]

Source: https://ncnewsline.com/, December 4, 2023 By: Lisa Sorg Nearly two years after a catastrophic fire at the Weaver Fertilizer plant in Winston-Salem, contaminated groundwater at the site has “likely migrated offsite to the west and north,” state records show, and “more groundwater investigation is necessary.” The groundwater beneath the property at 4440 N. Cherry St., contains high […]