Source: http://www.courierpress.com, January 10, 2015 By: Thomas B. Langhorne Dan Stocks doesn’t want to talk about the toxic mess his company left at Miller Plating & Metal Finishing or the fact that taxpayers footed the $1.4 million bill for the cleanup. Stocks did not respond to telephone, text and Facebook messages seeking comment about the […]

Source: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com, January 7, 2015 By: Paul Gottlieb Port of Port Angeles commissioners are suing insurance carriers over three environmental cleanup projects that will cost tens of millions of dollars to complete. Commissioners Jim Hallett, John Calhoun and Colleen McAleer voted Tuesday to sue the carriers over the projects, in which the port has been […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, January 11, 2015 By: James M. O’Neill DuPont plans to create a spinoff company that would take on the environmental liability for about 190 contaminated sites across the country, including DuPont’s former munitions facility in Pompton Lakes, one of its most costly cleanup sites. The change is not expected to slow progress on […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, January 8, 2015 By: Andrew Zajac and Mark Drajem A coalition of advocacy groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for public access to information on toxic chemicals released by the energy industry through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other forms of oil and gas drilling. Fracking involves the injection of water, chemicals […]

Source: http://www.natlawreview.com, January 8, 2015 On December 30, 2014, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided two cases in which the central issue was whether the substance responsible for the alleged property damage constitutes a “pollutant” sufficient to invoke pollution exclusions in relevant insurance policies. In Preisler v. General Casualty Ins. Co., et al., 2014 WI 135, and Wilson […]

Read here about clean up of an fuel spill in Alaska that will be taken over by the EPA as a result of the responsible party being “financially incapable of completing the cleanup.”

Source: http://www.claimsjournal.com, January 8, 2015 By: Steven Plitt Recently, the South Carolina Court of Appeals in Precision Walls, Inc. v. Liberty Mutual Fire Ins. Co., 410 S.C. 175, 763 S.E.2d 598 (Ct. App. 2014), reh’g denied (Oct. 23, 2014), held that the cost to tear down and re-build a brick veneer to replace defective tape […]

Source: Ventura County Star (CA), January 7, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owner of a Ventura County disposal plant shut down by a chemical blast in mid-November has sued its insurer, claiming Allied World Assurance Co. must cover damages up to $7 million. In the suit filed late last month, Santa Clara Waste Water Co. […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 17, 2014 By: Amy B. Briggs, Donna M. Carlton, David B. Killalea , Stephen T. Raptis, Robert H. Shulman and Susan P. White, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Why it matters A New York federal court recently ruled that the discharge of ammonia at a manufacturing plant – causing a facility shutdown […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 17, 2014 By: Donna M. Carlton, Amy B. Briggs, David B. Killalea , Stephen T. Raptis, Robert H. Shulman and Susan P. White, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Why it matters A New York appellate court recently decided that an insurance policy’s noncumulation clause limited the amount of coverage available to a […]

Read here about a leak in Ohio at a natural gas fracking well.

Source: http://www.latimes.com, December 22, 2014 By: Kim Christensen and Tony Barboza Exide Technologies officials willfully endangered the health of more than 60 children living near the company’s troubled lead recycling plant in Vernon, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The complaint alleges that Exide officers, directors and managers intentionally […]