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A Chatham family says they only want their dog back for the holidays.

Occupiers Liability Act (" OLA") to provide that no action shall be brought for the recovery of damages for personal injury caused by snow or ice against an occupier or independent contractor employed by the occupier to remove snow or ice, unless, within 60 days after the occurrence of the injury, written notice of the claim is served. Duty of Occupier An "occupier" includes a person who is in physical possession of premises, or a person who has responsibility for and control over the condition...

BASF and Olin Asked to Pay for Hazardous Substance Clean-Up at Alabama Superfund Site December 21, 2020 The United States has filed a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) action against Olin Corporation and BASF Corporation seeking between $13.4 and $21.5 million in oversight costs, among other things. The Southern District of Alabama complaint, filed late last week, contends that the -Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found contaminants in part of ...

Delaware Business Now Reading Time: 1 minute The Environmental Protection Agency announced that the U.S. Department of Defense and the state of Delaware have agreed to reimburse EPA $3,590,985 for its cleanup of a former landfill at the Governor Bacon Health Center/Fort DuPont State Park near Delaware City. The U.S. Army owned and operated the Fort DuPont military base from the 1860s to 1947. Fort DuPont served as a Civil War gun battery, a World War I era field training, proving ground, targe...

Dec 18, 2020 PHILADELPHIA  – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the U.S. Department of Defense and the state of Delaware have agreed to reimburse EPA $3,590,985 for its cleanup of a former landfill at the Governor Bacon Health Center/Fort DuPont State Park near Delaware City.  The U.S. Army owned and operated the Fort DuPont military base from the 1860s to 1947. Fort DuPont served as a Civil War gun battery, a World War I era field training, proving ground, ...

U.S. Files Environmental Suit Against Delaware Regarding State-Owned Military Plot December 17, 2020 In a District of Delaware complaint, filed on Wednesday, the United States alleged that the State of Delaware has not fulfilled its obligations under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and asked that the state be required to pay response costs incurred by the country to clean up the release of hazardous waste in an area owned by the state.  The lo...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The US District Court for the Central District of California issued an opinion on December 10 in the decades-long fight between the US Environmental Protection Agency and several oil companies over payment of the United States’ costs incurred in remediating the McColl Superfund Site used for the manufacturing of aviation fuel during World War II. In United States of America v. Shell Oil Co., No. 91-00589, the court granted the Unit...

Coast guard, First Nations work to contain oil leak from decades-old shipwreck in B.C.s Nootka Sound The Canadian Coast Guard is still dealing with oil that is leaking from a shipwreck that sank in Nootka Sound in 1968. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Dec 15, 2020 9:29 PM PT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020 An oily sheen from the MV Schiedyk is pictured off the coast of B.C.s Bligh Island in late 2020.(Spill Response B.C.) The Canadian Coast Guard says they are looking at "all avenues rig...

TSCA/ FIFRA/ TRI, RCRA/ CERCLA/ CWA/ CAA/ PHMSA/ SDWA, COVID-19, FDA, NANOTECHNOLOGY and more: Recent Regulatory Developments Wednesday, December 16, 2020 TSCA/FIFRA/TRI EPA Proposes SNURs For Certain Chemical Substances: On November 16, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published proposed significant new use rules (SNUR) for certain chemical substances that are the subject of premanufacture notices (PMN). 85 Fed. Reg. 73007. The proposed SNURs would require perso...

The Daily Yonder This story was published in partnership with Grist. In 2009, App Thacker was hired to run a dredge along the Emory River in eastern Tennessee. Picture an industrialized fleet modeled after Huck Finn’s raft: Nicknamed Adelyn, Kylee, and Shirley, the blue, flat-bottomed boats used mechanical arms called cutterheads to dig up riverbeds and siphon the excavated sediment into shoreline canals. The largest dredge, a two-story behemoth called the Sandpiper, had pipes wide enough to ...