Source: https://www.thestate.com/, May 6, 2025 By: Morgan Hughes and Sammy Fretwell Richland County is being ordered to pay up to $3 million for violating state pollution rules at the under-construction Scout Motors site north of Columbia. State regulators have documented numerous instances of sediment and storm water being improperly managed, leading to pollution of the […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, May 7, 2025 By: Jack Brook Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week. Upwards of 79,000 gallons (299,047 liters) of “oily water mixture” have been recovered near Garden Island Bay […]

Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/, April 17 2025 By: Grist, Lylla Younes, and Naveena Sadasivam By January 2018, Vanessa Dominguez and her husband had been flirting with moving to a different neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, for a few years. Their daughter was enrolled in one of the best elementary schools in the county, but because the family […]

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/, May 5, 2025 By: Lauren Edmonds 432 Park Avenue, the narrow 1,396-foot-tall residential skyscraper on New York City’s Billionaires’ Row, was advertised as an architectural marvel when tenants first moved in nearly a decade ago. Now those tenants say the luxury tower is beset by cracks, leaks, elevator malfunctions, and relentless noise. Read more.

Source: https://georgiarecorder.com/, May 5, 2025 By: Stanley Dunlap Agriculture is Georgia’s top industry, and broilers are the state’s top farm product. But the mess that large-scale poultry farming causes can create tensions between residents and corporate owners. And that is playing out in a northeast Georgia community, where a proposed poultry rendering plant has residents […]

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, May 5, 2025 By: Gavin Souter Risk managers should consider their organization’s corporate culture and stance on environmental risks as they deal with various pollution exposures and distinct regulatory environments, an environmental insurance expert said. Insurance coverage is available for various exposures, but buyers should ensure they provide underwriters with as much data […]

Source: https://www.kcur.org/, May 5, 2025 By: Meg Britton-Mehlisch A chemical plume of trichloroethylene, or TCE, was discovered in the 1990s and traced back to an airplane manufacturing plant in east Wichita. A group of neighbors living near Central and Webb said in a new filing in Sedgwick County District Court this month that the airplane […]

Source: https://apnews.com/, April 30, 2025 Three workers were killed and two others injured after a scaffolding gave way at a Texas construction site, authorities said. First responders were called to the Port Arthur LNG site early Tuesday for an industrial accident involving Bechtel workers, according to a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office statement posted on social […]

Source: https://www.marsh.com/, April 28, 2025 Product pollution is an issue that has gained significant attention in recent years, particularly with the emergence of high-profile cases involving industrial chemicals such as PFAS and the rise of nuclear verdicts. The potentially harmful impact of chemicals, both on the health of individuals and to the environment, has led to […]

Source: https://www.logandaily.com/, April 26, 2025 By: Jim Phillips One company is being dropped from the city of Logan’s lawsuit over the allegedly faulty design and construction of its water treatment plant, while another firm is being drawn into the litigation. Logan City Council recently approved a settlement in the federal lawsuit in which the city agreed, […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, April 21, 2025 By: Matthew Sellers In a ruling that clarifies how statutory definitions influence insurance coverage in construction disputes, the Arkansas Court of Appeals on April 9, 2025, affirmed a lower court decision holding that Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. must defend and indemnify NWA Restore-It, Inc. in a case involving property damage allegedly […]

Source: https://distinguished.com/, April 23, 2025 Emerging contaminants are chemicals in the environment that have been recently identified as posing a potential risk to the environment or public health. These contaminants may arise from everyday products or their use in various industries. As these contaminants are detected in the environment with increased frequency and concentration, they become […]