Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, February 1, 2016 By: Marcel Riciardelli Most tenants assume their rented home will be a safe environment. But what if they couldn’t really breathe easily in their home because the air was contaminated? When we think of environmental risk, we think of the traditional causes — fires, explosions, leaking tanks or pipelines, and […]

Source: http://www.contracostatimes.com, February 1, 2016 By: Sarah Tan After years of lying abandoned and contaminated, Point Molate is one step closer to being clean. After an $11 million project removed over 200,000 tons of soil and six million gallons of contaminated water from the former U.S. Navy fuel storage depot there, part of the 320-acre […]

Source: http://theadvocate.com, February 1, 2016 By: Richard Burgess A state lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the cleanup of an old railroad yard along the Evangeline Thruway near downtown, raising concerns about decades-old contamination possibly threatening Lafayette’s water supply. The state Department of Environmental Quality has long known about the contaminated site, which it has […]

Source: https://www.earthworksaction.org, January 29, 2016 By: Bonnie Gestring It was good news all around today for the millions of families that live near polluted industrial sites, and the American taxpayers who have footed the cleanup bill all too often. Today, the Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop letting polluters off the hook […]

Source: http://www.idahoconservation.org, January 29, 2016 By: Justin Hayes The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to stop letting polluters off the financial hook for contamination they caused. The judges directed the EPA to finalize long-awaited “financial assurance” (i.e. bonding) regulations that will first apply to […]

Source: http://www.travelpulse.com, January 28, 2016 By: Donald Wood Officials representing the Lac Vieux Desert Resort Casino in Watersmeet, Michigan, have reported that the Legionella bacterium—the cause of Legionnaire’s disease—has been discovered inside the resort’s hotel. According to Harri Leigh of UpperMichigansSource.com, a customer staying at the hotel was found to have the sickness, causing officials […]

Source: http://www.lawandenvironment.com, January 28, 2016 By: Kathleen Brill On Tuesday, insurance giant AIG announced a major restructuring designed to make it a “more profitable and focused insurer.” Apparently as a result of these efforts to streamline and slim down, AIG has begun notifying holders of its Pollution Legal Liability insurance that it will no longer […]

Source: http://www.bayjournal.com, January 28, 2016 By: Tim Wheeler Following the lead of several other states, Maryland is preparing to sue the oil industry for the costs of cleaning up a one-time gasoline additive that’s contaminated   water across the state. Maryland’s Board of Public Works approved Wednesday a plan by Attorney General Brian E. Frosh to […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 28, 2016 By: Alexander J. Bandza, Jenner & Block Certain jurisdictions interpret the pollution exclusion more expansively than others, but a recent Illinois decision interpreting Texas law suggests that this expansiveness has its limits.  In re Liquidation of Legion Indemnity Company, 2015 IL App (1st) 140452 (Ill. App. Ct. Nov. 10, 2015).  Legion concerned […]

Source: http://uppermichiganssource.com, January 27,2016 By: Harri Leigh Officials from Lac Vieux Desert Resort Casino say the Legionella bacterium, which causes Legionnaire’s disease, has been found in the the resort’s hotel. After one guest contracted the illness, they evacuated the building. Water samples from the hotel tested positive for the bacteria. Officials say they have already […]

Source: http://www.wsws.org, January 26, 2016 By: Nick Barrickman In the context of reports of the poisoning of residents of Flint, Michigan due to lead contamination in the city’s water supply, recent studies have shown lead contamination to be a widespread problem in cities and towns throughout the United States. The populations of major cities such […]

Source: https://www.rawstory.com, January 26,2016 Schools in the Ohio village of Sebring were closed for a third day on Tuesday after elevated levels of lead were found in pipes serving some homes and buildings, making it the second Midwestern region to be plagued by tainted water. Three schools in Sebring, 60 miles (97 km) northeast of […]