Source: http://www.thetimesherald.com, May 17, 2016 By: Liz Shepard A Port Huron gas station has stopped a leak from its underground storage tanks, but needs to come up with a long-term fix for the contaminated area in and long the Black River Canal, according to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. Paul Owens, DEQ district supervisor […]

Source: http://www.unionleader.com, May 17, 2016 By: Kimberly Houghton Groundwater contamination has been discovered at the former town landfill, prompting state officials to begin another round of private well sampling to determine the extent of the problem now facing several communities in southern New Hampshire. As part of the state’s ongoing water contamination investigation, elevated levels […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, May 18, 2016 By: Dave Thamann Determining the date of an occurrence, that is when an injury can be said to have occurred, can cause a dispute over which insurance policy applies to a claim or lawsuit. There is a general rule that applies for determining when an occurrence happens, as stated by […]

Source: http://www.ktoo.org, May 16, 2016 By: Jillian rogers Extensive testing at the former Haines Tank Farm and Fuel Terminal found widespread fuel-related contamination. Approximately 75,000 cubic yards of soil have contaminants that exceed environmental standards. The problem is decades old, from the time that the Haines-Fairbanks pipeline operated with little environmental oversight in the 1950s […]

By Jefferey S. Lejfer, CEO, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC By its nature, the issue of environmental liability is an ever-changing beast. Spurred on by the earliest federal regulations in the 1970s that mandate clean air and water, resource recovery, and environmental response, carriers offered insurance lines to manage the associated risks as they developed […]

Source: http://www.wwnytv.com, May 13, 2016 Ground contamination created by the old New York Air Brake decades ago will be cleaned up. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation made the announcement Friday. The DEC said soils and sediment along the bank of Kelsey Creek at the North Watertown Cemetery will be removed. The ground […]

Source: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com, MAY 14, 2016 By: Craig Fox Coming three years after contaminants were found, the state announced on Friday it was proceeding with a $1.5 million cleanup near Kelsey Creek of pollutants that were dumped decades ago at the former New York Air Brake plant. In a press release, the state Department of Environmental […]

Source: http://www.hcn.org, May 16, 2016 By: Sarah Gilman Cities take a new tack to fight pollutants: targeting companies who make them. Portland, Oregon’s Willamette is no wilderness river. But on a spring day, downstream of downtown, wildness peeks through. Thick forest rises beyond a tank farm on the west bank. A sea lion thrashes to […]

Source: http://www.callawyer.com, April 6, 2016 By: Marty Graham Think construction defects cases are complicated? Try looking at them from the perspective of the  neutrals who guide parties to settlement. Complicated only begins to describe what one experienced  neutral calls working on a puzzle with dozens of pieces where the task is getting the edges to […]

Source: http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca, May 12, 2016 The oil and gas businesses are messy ones, as contractors who work in those fields can attest. That’s because accidents happen, as they do in just about any other industry. But because of that risk, it’s important for contractors working for oil and gas companies to have their own insurance […]

Source: http://patch.com, May 12, 2016 By: Vincent Salzo Crews began the excavation and removal of contaminated soil to pave the way for The Haven outlet mall development project. WEST HAVEN, CT — Crews from a Bloomfield remediation, engineering and development company have launched the highly anticipated environmental cleanup of 105 Water Street and 16 Elm […]

Source: http://www.plasticsnews.com, May 12, 2016 By: Steve Toloken Residents near a Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. plant in Vermont filed a class action lawsuit against the company May 6, accusing it of polluting groundwater sources with perfluorooctanoic acid. The lawsuit accuses Saint-Gobain and previous owners of the North Bennington, Vt., factory of negligence in discharging “significant” […]