Source: AFP World News, July 29, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com Pressure rose on French authorities Monday after an environmental group said it had filed a lawsuit accusing officials of failing to quickly contain the risks of lead poisoning after the fire that ravaged Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris last April. Worries about exposure to the toxic […]

Source: https://nypost.com, July 28, 2019 As news keeps breaking of unbelievable bungling at the city Housing Authority, the city’s still waiting for the guy who’s supposed to lead the turnaround. Increasingly, it looks like Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to accept a federal monitor, and so oust acting NYCHA chief Stanley Brezenoff, was a net […]

Source: https://www.nhpr.org, July 18, 2019 By: Annie Ropeik New Hampshire on Thursday adopted the country’s most sweeping limits for PFAS chemical contamination in drinking water. The strict standards won approval from the state legislature’s administrative rules committee, along roughly party lines. It makes New Hampshire the first state to require local water systems, landfills and wastewater plants […]

Source: https://www.messenger-inquirer.com, July 28, 2019 By: Jef Feeley and Tim Loh Bloomberg The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer inherited last year when it acquired Monsanto Co. While thousands of damage claims over Roundup have grabbed headlines and hogged the attention of investors, the German conglomerate also has […]

Source: July 29, 2019 By: Jon Hurdle Advocates claim links between illness and chemical contamination as companies feud over who would pay to clean soil and water In the South Jersey town of Carneys Point, Dr. Mohamed Salem recalled a patient who came to him about a year ago with unexplained symptoms of fatigue and […]

Source: Business Insider, July 28, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com The chemical class known as PFAS became popular in the US around the 1940s when manufacturing companies realized they resist heat, grease, stains, and water. Today, PFAS are considered toxic and have been linked to cancer, liver damage, thyroid disease, and developmental issues. At a congressional hearing on July […]

Source: State (Columbia, SC), July 25, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com Energy giant ExxonMobil has agreed to pay federal and state agencies $6.6 million to settle a lawsuit over pollution that killed marine life and degraded salt marshes in South Carolina’s Lowcountry. Old fertilizer plant sites the company acquired two decades ago released a cocktail of […]

Source: https://www.buzzfeednews.com, July 26, 2019 By: Harriet Washington Monsanto Industrial Chemicals admitted to poisoning residents of Anniston, Alabama with PCBs. Years after a settlement, people are still sick. An excerpt from Harriet Washington’s A Terrible Thing To Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind. Shirley Baker, a nurse, deftly ties on a surgical mask […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com, July 19, 2019 The Court’s decision in New Riegel Local School District Board of Education, et al. v. The Buehrer Group Architecture & Engineering, Inc., et al.  [1] interprets Ohio’s Statute of Repose,  [2] which generally requires certain construction defect claims to be brought within 10 years of the date of substantial completion. At issue […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, July 3, 2019 By: Clifford J. Shapiro, Barnes & Thornburg LLP The Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Oct. 9, 2018, that property damage caused by a subcontractor’s faulty workmanship can never be an accidental “occurrence” within the meaning of the commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policy, and is therefore not covered. In reaching […]

Source: https://www.macon.com, July 24, 2019 By: Tara Copp The Pentagon is launching a task force to look at the potential impact and dangers that chemical compounds used in military firefighting foam have had on military bases and the families who live there, Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced on his first day in office. Per-and polyfluoroalkyl […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, July 24, 2019 By: Jef Feeley and Tim Loh The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer AG inherited last year when it acquired Monsanto Co. While thousands of damage claims over Roundup have grabbed headlines and hogged the attention of investors, the German conglomerate also has […]