Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, July 10, 2025 By: Tom Perkins The state of New Mexico is suing the US air force over its refusal to comply with orders to address extremely high levels of Pfas pollution stemming from its base, which has tainted drinking water for tens of thousands of people, damaged crops and poisoned dairy cows. Though the […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, July 11, 2025 By: Andrew P. Van Osselaer, Storm Lineberger and Reese Letourneau, Haynes Boone Too often, concerns over environmental contamination impede negotiations in business transactions — especially those involving commercial property. These environmental risks can take many forms: known or potentially unknown on-site contamination, liability for off-site contamination (e.g., through waste disposal […]

Source: https://eponline.com/, July 8, 2025 By: Stasia DeMarco The EPA has settled with Gateway Energy Storage, LLC, to conduct a full environmental cleanup following a lithium-ion battery fire at the company’s energy storage facility in San Diego. The fire, which began on May 15, 2024, involved 14,800 nickel-manganese-cobalt lithium-ion batteries. It continued to flare intermittently […]

Source: https://thebedfordcitizen.org/, July 11, 2025 By: Jenny Stewart Representatives from the Navy, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), joined a scant audience for a hybrid meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) on July 8. The representatives, under the direction of newly appointed Navy Remedial Project […]

Source: https://www.bbc.com/, July 10, 2025 By: Michelle Fleury & Nathalie Jimenez When Beverly Morris retired in 2016, she thought she had found her dream home – a peaceful stretch of rural Georgia, surrounded by trees and quiet. Today, it’s anything but. Just 400 yards (366m) from her front porch in Mansfield, Georgia, sits a large, […]

Source: https://www.waterworld.com/, July 8, 2025 SL Environmental Law Group announced on June 18, 2025, that funds from the 3M and DuPont water settlements – the largest of their kind in U.S. history according to the group – are now being released to relieve water providers of some of the financial burden of removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl […]

Source: https://www.timesunion.com/, July 8m 2025 By: Brendan J. Lyons DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls, where the drinking water had been contaminated for decades by factories that used manufacturing chemicals produced by the […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, July 8, 2025 By: Matthew Thibault The California Legislature has rolled back provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act in an effort to spur housing construction and cut red tape for other types of projects, according to a June 30 news release from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed the legislation the same day. The rollbacks, […]

Source: https://www.mycentraljersey.com/, July 7, 2025 By: Mike Deak The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has filed suit against a longtime Readington Road business to recoup the DEP’s related costs of the “cleanup and removal” of contamination from the property. In the suit filed June 20 in Somerset County Superior Court, the DEP is seeking […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 3, 2025 Contractors from Maine, Connecticut and New York will pay $1.37 million to resolve allegations concerning false claims for payment related to the rehabilitation of a Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport runway in Westfield, Massachusetts. As part of the settlement agreement announced by the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, the three firms — Eurovia Atlantic […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, July 2, 2025 By: Chris Davis “Sending information into a broker and getting a quote is not going to get construction companies the results they want.” That’s the blunt assessment from Chelsi Hobbs (pictured), a commercial lines producer at CoVerica, on what she sees as a growing disconnect between coverage expectations and insurance […]

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/, July 2, 2025 By: Alexandra Koch The Honolulu Board of Water Supply (BWS) on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Navy, seeking more than $1 billion after the military branch released petroleum and other hazardous chemicals into Oʻahu, Hawaii‘s sole source of drinking water. During the incident, 27,000 gallons of toxic jet […]