Source: http://napavalleyregister.com, August 23, 2017 By: Bruce Sackrison Most business insurance policies exclude pollution — and most business owners don’t know this. For this last article in a series, I could have called “weird liability coverage” we’ll look at a liability risk and coverage that is seldom talked about. Even if you don’t own an […]

Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com, August 18, 2017 By: Luke Broadwater Baltimore officials agreed this week to pay $3.9 million to help clean up hazardous pollution from a dump site in East Baltimore. The Board of Estimates, which is controlled by Mayor Catherine Pugh, voted Wednesday to enter into a consent decree with the federal government and state […]

Source: http://www.gazettetimes.com, August 28, 2017 By: Bennett Hall With the initial cleanup completed, workers are preparing to remove contaminated soil from the site of an oil spill that dumped an undetermined amount of pollution into the Willamette River in downtown Corvallis last week. Between 50 and 75 gallons of used motor oil was released Wednesday […]

Source: http://www.greenvilleonline.com, August 22, 2017 By: Judith Bainbridge For six months in 1986, four Greenville News reporters researched, investigated and interviewed experts and local citizens alike in order to write a six-week series on PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) contamination in the waterways of Pickens County. Suspected of causing cancer in humans, the major symptoms of PCB poisoning are […]

Source: http://billingsgazette.com, August 15, 2017 By: Tom Lutey Talen Energy has put a $138 million price tag on capping Colstrip Power Plant’s toxic coal ash ponds. The co-owner and operator of the southeast Montana coal-fired power plant submitted the required estimates earlier this month to the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. Capping the ash ponds […]

Source: http://www.advisen.com, August 16, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A lawsuit has been filed against King Spa in Dallas by two people who say they contracted Legionnaires’ disease after visiting the 24-hour Korean spa. Adam Flores, who visited the spa on Feb. 16, and Stacey DeLeon, who visited on March 28, both developed serious respiratory issues […]

Source: Houston Chronicle, August 15, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Heavy rain may have softened the environmental blow of a large wastewater spill in the Delaware River near West Texas oil fields earlier this month, officials say. Before dawn on Aug. 1, a few miles south of the Texas border with New Mexico, an over-pressured flow […]

Source: http://www.willitsnews.com, August 8, 2017 By: Ariel Carmona Jr. A state funded grant program designed to allow agencies to tackle projects addressing potential harm to human health and safety caused by surface groundwater contamination will be partly used to help clean up the former Redwood Empire Cleaners property, according to a spokesperson for the North […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, August 14,2 017 In Energy Ins. Mutual Ltd. v. Ace American Ins. Co. (No. A140656, filed 7/11/17, ord. Pub. 8/10/17), a California appeals court found that a professional services exclusion barred coverage for wrongful death and other claims blamed on pipeline inspectors’ failure to identify and properly mark a gas pipeline that was […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, August 8, 2017 By: Daniel McLennon, Smith Currie & Hancock A recent trend in design-build contracting, especially on large projects, is for the owner to incorporate a heightened standard of care for the design aspects of the building. Creeping into contracts is language requiring the project to perform according to unspecified expectations, such […]

Source: http://www.krcrtv.com, August 9, 2017 By: Jerry Olenyn Heavy rains expose design flaw in gutter system Six condominiums in the Doe Mill subdivision at East 20th and Hutchinson Streets are being cleaned, repaired and redesigned because of a design flaw in the gutters, after non-toxic black mold was discovered inside. Tom DiGiovanni, the president of […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, August 9, 2017 By: Patricia L. Boye-Williams, Murtha Cullina LLP Owners, lessors, lessees, and developers of retail and other commercial properties are often unaware of the scope of environmental laws that apply to their businesses and/or properties. Unfortunately, they often become aware that they have failed to register for a required permit or […]