Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, January 27, 2025 By: Tom Perkins The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, a new lawsuit alleges. It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant […]

Source: https://www.latimes.com/, April 22, 2024 By: Tony Briscoe For years, school district officials had grand designs to revamp the campus of McKinley Elementary in Santa Monica. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District intended to build a two-story building with eight state-of-the-art classrooms and a modernized front office. The project had already been funded by a […]

Source: https://cleantechnica.com/, December 27, 2024 By: Steve Hanley On December 26, 2024,New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed landmark Superfund legislation that bolsters the state’s efforts to protect and restore the environment. The new law requires large fossil fuel companies to pay for critical projects that protect the citizens of New York by creating a Climate Superfund […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, January 14, 2024 By: Abby Dvorkin and S. Bradford Butler, Frost Brown Todd LLP As we settle into 2025, multifamily housing developers across the country are eager to break ground on new multifamily housing projects to address the significant nationwide housing shortage and to realize the opportunities that such shortage presents. While all […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, January 15, 2024 By: Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea The multibillion-dollar chemicals company 3M told customers its firefighting foams were harmless and biodegradable when it knew they contained toxic substances so persistent they are now known as “forever chemicals” and banned in many countries including the UK, newly uncovered documents show. From the […]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, January 15, 2024 By: Brendan Pierson and Dietrich Knauth A Washington jury on Tuesday ordered Bayer (BAYGn.DE), opens new tab to pay $100 million to four people who say they were sickened by toxic chemicals known as PCBs at a Seattle-area school, but found the company was not liable for injuries alleged by 11 others. […]

Source: https://dnyuz.com/, January 13, 2025 In response to concerns that environmental protection efforts might delay reconstruction in the coastal area, environmental laws that could have posed obstacles to rebuilding structures destroyed by the Southern California wildfires will be temporarily suspended. Houses along the scenic Pacific Coast Highway in California burned down in a monstrous fire that destroyed […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, January 13, 2025 By: Bobby Magill To see the toxic legacy of lead mining in the US and understand the complicated task of cleaning it up, all one has to do is look at Richard Rankin’s backyard in Missouri. The septic system of his home in Fenton was filled in more than 20 […]

Source: https://time.com/, January 9, 2025 By: Alana Semuels Insurance companies were worried about many of the homes in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles long before this week’s devastating wildfire burned through the area, ravaging homes and forcing evacuations. The Palisades, because of its location next to the brush-heavy Santa Monica Mountains and the […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, January 10, 2025 By: Tom Perkins Early life exposure to toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” could affect economic success in adulthood, new first-of-its-kind research suggests. The Iowa State University and US Census Bureau working paper compared the earnings, college graduation rates and birth weights of two groups of children – those raised around military installations that […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, January 8, 2024 By: Chad Hemenway Once again, settlements from class-action litigation topped $40 billion in 2024, according to an extensive analysis of more than 1,400 cases by law firm Duane Morris. Gerald L. Maatman, partner at the firm and co-author of its 650-page report, said class-action settlements in 2024 were “like a gold […]

Source: https://www.law.com/, January 8, 2025 By: Colleen Murphy Illinois Union Insurance, a Chubb subsidiary, was slapped with a federal insurance coverage lawsuit by Shamrock Technologies over the insurer’s refusal to provide coverage for per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) remediation. Shamrock alleged that Illinois has a duty to defend and pay for loss under their umbrella […]