more at this time but stressed those were epa-vetted sites. still, officials have concerns. take a listen to what the mayor of east liverpool had to say. you can see it from my back yard, and it s literally in some people s back yard. it s definitely a concern. not knowing that they re come, which way they re coming, how safe the trucks are that are coming is something that has got us all very, very irritated. reporter: that was warren evans, the county executive there in michigan where some of this material was going to. mind you, the ohio epa saying at the derailment site they ll be installing water wells to do further ground testing to see if there s any groundwater contamination. mind you this comes after officials have said repeatedly there is no threat to the public given the testing they ve done to the water, air and soil. residents have been skeptical
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has called the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month a disaster “like one I’ve never seen.” Brockovich, who discovered that groundwater contamination from Pacific Gas and Electric Company was sickening residents in the small town of Hinkley, Calif., in the 1990s, told “CNN…
North Carolina is latest state to file PFAS environmental remediation lawsuit against manufacturers of certain PFAS and PFAS-containing aqueous film-forming foam AFFF. The North Carolina PFAS lawsuit only pertains to contamination from two PFAS types – PFOA and PFOS.
Manama [Bahrain], September 30 (ANI/PRNewswire): Bahrain's Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) launched its tendering process to appoint a qualified contractor to remediate a two square kilometre landfill site to prepare the plot for the development and implementation of a solar project with a minimum capacity of 100 MW. The landfill site is located at Askar, in the Southern Governorate of Bahrain. The scope of the project will involve the design and construction of a landfill gas extraction and treatment system to meet the requirements of environmental standards as per the Supreme Council of Environment requirements. The project will also include land remediation, the development of gas and leachate management systems, and a drainage system to ensure the site readiness for the construction and operation of the solar project. The tender scope also includes the site investigations to meet the required performance specification and environmental monitoring of the landfill site (lea