Source: https://www.wisn.com/, November 18, 2019 Some West Bend residents are concerned chemicals from a nearby landfill may be seeping into their homes. “There’s a lot of people with health concerns, and you don’t know if you’re gonna get sick or what. You don’t know,” resident Paul Johnson said. Read more

Source: https://www.jsonline.com/, November 19, 2019 By: Lee Bergquist A state Department of Natural Resources official on Monday rejected a proposal from Johnson Controls International that would have the DNR — and not the company — oversee the extent of industrial contamination on thousands of acres in northeastern Wisconsin. The Glendale company had been ordered to provide the DNR […]

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/, Environmental Insider Be ready when life happens. These waste management situations illustrate the variety of environmental exposures that could affect your customers! A manufacturing company performed routine drum washing operations. Over time, solvent laced wash water migrated through cracks in the concrete and into the subsurface soils and groundwater. The plume of solvents […]

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/, Environmental Insider Dirt – it’s a simple thing that can be more complicated than you might think – especially when it comes to construction projects and environmental impacts. Many construction sites require dirt, or “fill” for final grading of a site. Site work often involves the removal of tanks, building foundations, older roads, etc., […]

Source: https://www.cleveland.com/, November 16, 2019 By: Emily Bamforth Residents are claiming that vibrations from construction at the former Lakewood Hospital site are causing damage to their homes, according to city documents. The city promises to address any damage. Lakewood officials held a meeting with residents of Belle and Marlowe Avenues adjacent to the hospital site […]

Source: https://legalnewsline.com/, November 18, 2019 By: Marian Johns Honeywell is claiming that Citgo is responsible for much of the millions it has spent cleaning up the release of petroleum and related hazardous substances in the land areas around New York’s Onodaga Lake. Honeywell International Inc. filed a complaint Sept. 30 in the U.S. District Court for the […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, November 13, 2019 By: Paula Gardner A former Big Three automotive parts factory located just yards from the Huron River is responsible for PFAS in groundwater at higher levels than previously found, state officials disclosed this month. Existing contamination at 2800 Zeeb Road in Scio Township goes back to when the Dexter-area building was owned […]

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, November 13, 2019 By: Judy Greenwald Formal presentations to underwriters can help risk managers of construction firms navigate the hardening market when buying or renewing insurance, says a broker. “We do that with several clients,” said Steven D. Davis, Birmingham, Alabama-based senior vice president and director of the construction division at McGriff, Seibels […]

Source: Seattle Times, November 14, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Seattle Children’s hospital said it is closing all operating rooms on its Seattle campus for at least five days in an effort to get a handle on a recurring mold problem that, since last year, has killed one patient and sickened at least six others. The […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, November 13, 2019 Researchers are uncertain about the environmental impact of toxic chemicals used to extinguish a three-day blaze at a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility after some leaked into a busy commercial waterway. The fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility in Deer Park began in a naphtha tank March 17, igniting other tanks at […]

Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/, November 11, 2019 By: Ryan Blethen Seattle Children’s has closed three of its operating rooms because of the same fungus that forced the shutdown of all the hospital’s operating rooms earlier this year. The hospital is also looking into two new infections caused by the Aspergillus mold. Read more.

Source: https://www.lexology.com, November 7, 2019 By: Karen A. Cullinane, Goldberg Segalla LLP Recent utility tests of drinking water on President Trump’s golf property in Bedminster, New Jersey, revealed, for the third time this year, the presence of perflurooctanoic acid (PFOA), which is one of the more common PFAS compounds. A lab retained by the New […]