Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 22, 2016 By: Walter Wright and Rachel Hildebrand, Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard PLLC An Ohio federal district court addressed whether a landfill operator’s insurer was obligated under a claims-based Environmental Impairment Liability (“EIL”) policy to defend and indemnify against claims concerning odors emanating from the landfill. See Tunnell Hill Reclamation, […]

Source: http://thedailynews.cc, October 20, 2016 By: Elisabeth Waldon The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is working to fix contamination from leaking storage tanks underground at a former gas station. The property at 15350 W. Howard City-Edmore Road (M-46) sits on two long neglected acres in Winfield Township, better known as Amble. The property went into […]

Source: http://www.fox4news.com, October 20, 2016 By: Lori Brown,Vicki Chen A FOX 4 Investigation has uncovered that Dallas ISD’s newest school is built on contaminated land. The contamination at Jose “Joe” May Elementary School in Northwest Dallas is serious enough that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has stepped in to oversee cleanup of the […]

Source: http://www.stltoday.com, October 20, 2016 By: Bryce Gray A letter from Missouri Department of Natural Resource officials has outlined numerous sources of groundwater contamination at Bridgeton Landfill and has requested that the site’s operator, Republic Services, pursue “corrective measures” to mitigate the impact of an underground fire smoldering within the landfill, while continuing environmental monitoring efforts. Based […]

Source: http://www.enr.com, October 17, 2016 By: Scott Van Voorhis Ruling Involved Addition to a Famous University of Pittsburgh Building A design firm’s insurance claim that was considered too vague by a federal judge may cost the University of Pittsburgh a chance to recover losses under an architects and engineers general liability policy that insured the designer. […]

Source: http://www.prnewswire.com, October 18, 2016 The Miller Law Firm has recovered $4,000,000 for the Library Court Community Association, a recovery of over $44,000 per condo unit reached in less than two years. This 91 unit condominium project, located in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles, was originally built in 1955 by Lincoln Savings.  Under […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, October 19, 2016 New York is offering free blood tests for residents of a Hudson Valley city where the water supply was contaminated with a toxic chemical in fire-fighting foam used at a nearby Air National Guard base. State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker announced Monday that testing in Newburgh will begin on Nov. […]

Source: http://www.prnewswire.com, October 18, 2016 The Miller Law Firm has recovered $4,000,000 for the Library Court Community Association, a recovery of over $44,000 per condo unit reached in less than two years. This 91 unit condominium project, located in the Financial District of Downtown Los Angeles, was originally built in 1955 by Lincoln Savings.  Under […]

Source: http://jacksonville.com, October 17, 2016 By: Steve Patterson A company fighting a city lawsuit over old industrial pollution around Jacksonville’s Hogans Creek has collected $4 million from environmental insurance policies a second company says show liability, papers filed by the second company say. That second company, Houston Pipe Line, says the payments show Continental Holdings […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, October 18, 2016 By: Garret Ellison A Novi-based gas station operator must reimburse the state $100,000 and submit detailed cleanup plans for 21 sites where leaking fuel storage tanks are or threatening to pollute soil and groundwater. The judicial consent order announced this week by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality gives Knight […]

Source: http://www.thetimesherald.com, October 17, 2016 By: Liz Shepard A Port Huron gas station is making progress in removing soil contaminated by leaking underground storage tanks. “They’ve been very cooperative, they really have,” Paul Owens, DEQ district supervisor for the remediation and redevelopment division, said of the Sunrise Convenience Stores. “They’re working with us, we’ve had […]

Source: http://www.boiseweekly.com, October 13, 2016 By: Annelise Eagleton A new report from the environmental watchdog group EWG asserts too many of America’s children could be exposed to toxic chemicals in thousands of U.S. schools. The report, The ABC’s of PCBs, authored by Harvard University professor Dr. Robert Herrick, concluded that as many as 26,000 U.S. schools […]