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July 26, 2017

Ford promises to clean up contamination from Livonia transmission plant

Source: https://www.clickondetroit.com, July 25, 2017 By: Rod Meloni Residents worried about contamination from chemicals The state of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have settled a ground contamination case that Local 4 brought to viewers 18 months ago. It’s been dubbed the Boston Beacon Project, and it involves contamination at the Livonia transmission plant. While the […]

July 26, 2017

City of Boulder sues Xcel Energy over contamination cleanup at 13th Street Plaza

Source: http://www.thedenverchannel.com, July 25, 2017 By: Liz gelardi Cleanup has cost city more than $3M so far A legal battle is brewing over the cleanup of contaminated land in Boulder and over who should foot the bill. The City of Boulder is suing Xcel Energy in federal court in an attempt to recoup costs related […]

July 26, 2017

Settlement reached in Mayflower Exxon Mobil oil spill lawsuit

Source: http://www.thv11.com, June 15, 2017 Hare Wynn Newell & Newton, a law firm with offices in Little Rock and Fayetteville, announced today that it has reached a settlement on behalf of dozens of residents and homeowners in Mayflower adversely affected by the 2013 rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus Pipeline. The pipeline rupture on March […]

July 21, 2017

Love Canal’s Legacy – Second Circuit Affirms Pollution Exclusion in Plumber’s Insurance Policy Bars Defense and Indemnification Claims

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 20. 2017 By: Diana A. Silva, Manko Gold Katcher & Fox Love Canal – the infamous neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York where large quantities of chemical waste was dumped, and which became the catalyst for enactment of the federal Superfund program – is still generating legal opinions, nearly 40 years after […]

July 21, 2017

GE to Pay New York $13.5m for Upstate Waste Contamination

Source: https://www.bna.com, July 20, 2017 By: Lars-Eric Hedberg General Electric will pay New York $13.5 million to resolve its potential liabilities at a contaminated upstate site, after the parties reached an agreement. Magistrate Judge Christian F. Hummel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York signed off on the consent decree […]

July 21, 2017

Ametek Can’t Shake Elementary School Contamination Suit

Source: https://www.bna.com, July 20, 2017 By: Peter Hayes A teacher and students at a Southern California elementary school presented enough exposure and causation evidence to proceed with claims stemming from a toxic plume that migrated from an adjacent industrial site, the Southern District of California ruled ( Trujillo v. Ametek, Inc. , 2017 BL 246482, […]

July 20, 2017

Millennium Tower now leaning even more

Source: https://sf.curbed.com, July 19, 2017 By: Adam Brinklow Can it finally be fixed? Millennium Tower, the tony but troubled downtown high-rise that made international headlines last year when the secret got out that it’s slowly sinking and tilting, returned to its customary place in the news late Tuesday when NBC Bay Area revealed that the […]

July 19, 2017

Northern Michigan community tries to stay ahead of massive contaminated plume

Source: http://michiganradio.org, July 18, 2017 By: Kaye Lafond When I arrive at Bethany Hawkins’ home, the first thing she does is offer me a glass of her well water. “Our water’s always been really good,” she says. But Hawkins’ well could have an expiration date. It’s an estimated 675 feet from the edge of a […]

July 19, 2017

Wallingford company working to address soil contamination from abandoned oil tanks

Source: http://www.myrecordjournal.com, July 18, 2017 By: Matthew Zabierek A Hall Avenue company is working with an engineering firm to control soil contamination around abandoned underground oil tanks. A 2009 environmental assessment conducted at Times Microwave Systems, a division of Amphenol Corporation, found excessive amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil on the property at 358 Hall […]

July 19, 2017

Spills, Fines and Route Disputes Plague Rover Pipeline

Source: https://www.ecowatch.com, July 18, 2017 By: Kathiann M. Kowalski The Rover Pipeline project in Ohio faces continuing problems, with more spills of drilling mud, ongoing questions about diesel fuel contamination, and orders issued last week by both the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). “The significant thing that is […]

July 18, 2017

Fuel spill contaminates E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area

Source: http://www.statesmanjournal.com, July 17, 2017 By: Tracy Loew A massive fuel spill on Highway 99W near Adair Village has caused traffic detours and delays for the past 10 days as the state clears contaminated soil and repairs the road. But Monday the situation worsened. Managers at the nearby E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area found out fuel contamination has spread […]

July 18, 2017

Knowledge of general and professional liability exposures and adequate covers can set agents apart

Source: http://roughnotes.com, July 5, 2017 By: Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU Judging from the rhetoric of the 2016 U.S. political campaign, one might have expected to see cranes and other heavy equipment popping up like weeds throughout the American landscape. At times, it seemed that there was only one thing most Americans and the major political […]

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