Source: https://www.advisen.com By: Erin Ayers The Hartford Financial Services Group announced its decision to stop underwriting any organizations that draws over 25 percent of its revenue from coal mining, joining a growing number of insurers that have taken stances against industries with negative environmental impacts. “The world needs affordable, accessible energy to support global economic […]

Source: The Daily Herald (Everett, WA), December 19, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A century-old Seattle barrel company has been indicted along with its third-generation owner in what prosecutors describe as a long-running pollution conspiracy. The 36-count indictment made public Wednesday said Seattle Barrel and Cooperage used a hidden drain to pump caustic wastewater directly into […]

Source: https://www.njspotlight.com/, December 19, 2019 By: Jon Hurdle New Jersey filed two more Natural Resource Damage lawsuits against alleged industrial polluters, continuing an aggressive strategy by the Murphy administration to get compensation for contamination of the natural environment. The attorney general’s office and the Department of Environmental Protection on Wednesday jointly announced suits against Sherwin-Williams […]

Source: https://www.recordonline.com/, December 18, 2019 by: Daniel Axelrod Ulster County, town and federal environmental officials are teaming up to force the clean-up of the “festering wound” that is the former IBM Tech City property, County Executive Pat Ryan announced on Wednesday. At a press conference at the county offices in Kingston, Ryan said the EPA […]

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, December 17, 2019 By: Judy Greenwald Massachusetts’ top court affirmed summary judgment Monday in favor of a CNA Financial Corp. unit in a professional liability case in which its policyholder had refused to agree to a settlement. The unanimous ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts also held in Douglas M. Rawan and […]

Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/, December 17, 2019 By: Lisa M. Krieger The nation’s largest mushroom grower has agreed to pay $2.24 million to settle an environmental protection lawsuit brought by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. The company, Watsonville-based Monterey Mushrooms Inc., was accused of polluting a South Bay creek with manure for years, despite orders and warnings […]

Source: https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/, December 17, 2019 By: Hannah Shirley TC Energy has not yet been fined for the Keystone Pipeline oil spill outside Edinburg in October, but it will be, a North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality official said. The Oct. 29 Keystone Pipeline spill released about 383,000 gallons of crude oil and is estimated to […]

Source: Alaska Dispatch News, December 17, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that BP Exploration Alaska has agreed to pay a $125,100 penalty related to violations of its federal hazardous waste permit for activities on Alaska’s North Slope. BP, a major Alaska oil producer that’s asking regulators to approve the $5.6 […]

Source: https://www.dailycamera.com/, December 12, 2019 By: Kelsey Hammon Three out of 18 residential wells tested this fall in Boulder Heights showed elevated levels of PFAS, also known as fluorochemicals, according to results released last week by Boulder County Public Health. Homeowners were prompted to have their water examined in September after a public meeting took […]

Source: https://www.delawareonline.com/, December 17, 2019 By: Maddy Lauria One of southern Delaware’s largest employers has agreed to pay more than half a million dollars in fines and penalties for breaking environmental laws at two of its downstate chicken plants, state officials announced late Monday. Mountaire Farms operates poultry plants along the Eastern Shore and elsewhere in the […]

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/, December 16, 2019 By: Hannah Rappleye, David Douglas and Anne Thompson Hope Grosse and Joanne Stanton have fond memories of the childhood they shared in the Philadelphia suburbs. They spent their days outside playing football, riding bikes and — when the Blue Angels came to town — they watched the skies. For kids […]

Source: https://www.wkbw.com/, December 16, 2019 By: Ali Touhey Five Amherst Central High School teachers are suing a local contractor after they claim they got sick after being exposed to toxic substances at school. The group, which is prohibited by state law from taking legal action against the school district, has filed suit against Turner Construction Co. in […]