Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, February 16, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Read your insurance policy. That’s the bottom line advice for businesses of all kinds, especially when it comes to pollution exclusions in property damage and liability insurance policies. A used car company and its principal learned this the hard way. Mississauga Motor Mart, and its […]

Source: The New York Times, February 14, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com A 120-car Norfolk Southern train carrying heavy Canadian crude oil derailed and spilled in western Pennsylvania on Thursday, adding to a string of recent accidents that have prompted calls for stronger safety standards. There were no reports of injury or fire after 21 tank […]

Source: Buffalo News, February 15, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Fifteen new lawsuits were filed Friday on behalf of current and past Niagara Falls residents who say their health was damaged by toxic waste emanating from Love Canal. Counting three previous lawsuits that included six families, Friday’s filings bring the number of plaintiffs in the new […]

Source: Macon Telegraph (GA), February 12, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Macon-Bibb County landfill is still falling below state environmental standards, and this time regulators are talking about serious penalties. Environmental Specialist Clayton Bristol inspected the Walker Road facility Jan. 23 and found multiple violations, many of which are holdovers from numerous earlier reports, Scott […]

Read here about a lawsuit against the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission who is being sued by for violations of the Clean Water Act.

Source: Philadelphia Daily News, February 12, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com In 2012, a train derailment spewed a toxic cloud over the small South Jersey town of Paulsboro, prompting safety concerns and major lawsuits over the chemical industry there. Now more lawsuits are being filed over an invisible, unrelated threat some say is lurking in Paulsboro’s […]

Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), February 12, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Target Corp. has paid a $27,500 fine and taken corrective action at two facilities in Brooklyn Park and Elk River after being alerted that diesel generators were producing excessive air emissions, state pollution control officials said Tuesday. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) determined […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), February 12, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied a request from Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to reimburse costs associated with responding to the chemical leak that continues to affect central West Virginia. In an announcement, Tomblin provided a copy of the rejection letter and pledged to […]

Read here about the cleanup of a North Dakota oil spill that will take at lease 2 more years.

Read here about a Spanish architect that has been ordered to pay for shortcomings in their work.

Read here about a North Carolina agency that wrongly declared arsenic levels in the Dan River as safe.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 7, 2014 By: Lynn T. Manolopoulos and Keith Baldwin, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP We all know that environmental laws impose heavy liability on businesses that release environmental contaminants into the air, soil or water. The family business is not immune to such liability. In fact, many multi-generational family businesses have owned or […]