Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority is following through on a settlement it reached in July to resolve violations of Pennsylvania’s Safe Drinking Water Act. As part of the settlement, PWSA agreed to donate $250,000 to Women for a Healthy Environment, a nonprofit that will use the money to offer free
The Daily Yonder In The Northern Great Plains, a Search for Ways to Protect Drinking Water from Fossil Fuel Industry Pollution North Dakota’s water supplies are at risk from contaminants from fracking wastewater, but residents are fighting back.
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Saltwater leaking into a stream from a massive saltwater spill from an underground pipeline on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation near Mandaree, North Dakota in 2014. Scientists say wastewater spills from oil development in western North Dakota are releasing toxins into soils and waterways. In a report published in 2016, Duke University researchers said they detected high levels of lead, ammonium and other contaminants in surface waters affected by wastewater spills in the Bakken oilfield region. (AP Photo/Tyler Bell, File)
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How to Deal with New PFAS Contamination Rules December 29, 2020
Alyssa Hirschfeld
Alyssa Hirschfeld serves as co-chair of the mergers & acquisitions group at Lathrop.
Private equity firms are itching to use up their dry powder and M&A activity is surging. But a different acronym should be atop dealmakers’ minds going into 2021.
Regulations about PFAS contamination per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances used in products like nonstick cookware and waterproof or stain-resistant fabrics – is primed to increase under the Biden administration. Meanwhile, dealmakers targeting sites possibly contaminated years or even decades ago face a heating (and possibly narrowing) M&A window.
For buyers, it’s crucial to understand this moment and act accordingly.
A West Bank Bible college has been working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to come back into good standing after violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The federal regulatory agency put Jackson Hole Bible College President Don Landis on notice last summer, faulting him for failing to send required E. coli monitoring reports, a noncompliant well cap and for failing to notify the public of those violations. In late October the agency included the college in a news release detailing regulatory actions taken to enforce drinking water quality across Wyoming and Indian Country within EPAâs Region 8.