Big Step Forward for $50 Billion Plan to Save Louisiana Coast
The next phase of a $50 billion plan to protect the Louisiana coast from erosion and rising sea levels has cleared an important hurdle, with the Army Corps of Engineers delivering a long-awaited environmental impact statement for a key part of the project. The report, issued Thursday evening, looked at a proposal to punch a […]
This major Louisiana coastal project just received a positive report from the Corps of Engineers
One of the most expensive, ambitious and controversial projects in Louisiana’s 50-year, $50 billion bid to save the southern third of the state from disappearing like a modern-day Atlantis passed a major milestone Thursday night when the Army Corps of Engineers gave it a mostly positive assessment. Four years in the making, the Corps’ draft […]
Gillibrand Introduces Legislation To Ban Firefighting Foam With Cancer-Causing Chemicals
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York has introduced a bill that would ban the use of firefighting foam that contains cancer-causing PFAS chemicals. PFAS are found in firefighting foams used at airports and military bases. Direct exposure to PFAS by firefighters has been linked to cancer. Gillibrand said the bill would create a nationwide […]
Water near Arizona Air Force base is tainted in latest case
PHOENIX — The U.S. Air Force says it will be distributing bottled water to thousands of residents and business owners near its base in suburban Phoenix until at least April, marking the latest case of chemicals from military firefighting efforts contaminating the water supply in a nearby community. Luke Air Force Base announced this month […]
‘Cost of Silence’: Film Review
Most Americans who don’t live on the Gulf Coast have, in all likelihood, long ago stopped thinking about the causes and effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. It’s impossible to hold all the world’s crises in your mind at once, and a relief to set one aside. We do the latter, often, because we […]
ABC News Family of 11-year-old boy who died in Texas deep freeze files $100 million suit against power companies
Texas power providers Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and Entergy Corporation have been hit with a $100 million lawsuit accusing them of gross negligence in the death of a child whose family suspects he suffered hypothermia when they lost electricity and heat in their mobile home during a historic cold snap. The mother of 11-year-old […]
Bayer reaches $2 billion deal over future Roundup cancer claims
DuPont, Chemours reach agreement over ‘forever chemicals’
The Dupont Co. and its spinoff business Chemours have agreed to resolve legal disputes over environmental liabilities for pollution related to man-made chemicals associated with an increased risk of cancer and other health problems. The binding memorandum of understanding announced Friday comes just over a month after Delaware’s Supreme Court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging that […]
‘Forever chemicals’ pollute water from Alaska to Florida
Tom Kennedy learned about the long-term contamination of his family’s drinking water about two months after he was told that his breast cancer had metastasized to his brain and was terminal. The troubles tainting his tap: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a broad category of chemicals invented in the mid-1900s to add desirable properties such […]
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF FIREFIGHTING FOAMS
WRITTEN BY: MICHAEL G. STAG Firefighting foams have long been essential for controlling fuel-based fires in military, industrial, and municipal settings. However, decades of widespread use have revealed serious environmental and health concerns tied to the toxic chemicals found in these foams. To learn more about ongoing litigation and how affected individuals can seek compensation, […]