Environmental Health

Judge Sides With Company, Cuts Asbestos Liability More Than $1 Billion

"A federal judge in Charlotte has delivered a startling victory for industries that are part of the country’s long-running asbestos-liability fight, cutting more than $1 billion from what a company owes to current and future victims."

Source: Charlotte Observer, 01/14/2014

Charleston, W.Va.: "Minimum 'Several Days' Till Safe Water"

"Four days after a coal-processing chemical leaked into the Elk River, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's administration and West Virginia American Water Company were once again unable to give a firm timeline for when water service would be restored to 300,000 residents in the Kanawha Valley."

Source: Charleston Gazette, 01/13/2014

Some Ky. Residents Found With High Arsenic Levels, Screenings Show

"Medical screenings have found high arsenic levels in at least two of the more than 50 residents tested near Louisville’s contaminated Black Leaf industrial site, the scene of Kentucky’s largest residential environmental cleanup ever."

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 01/10/2014

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