Source: Hunton & Williams LLP, August 8, 2012 Posted on: http://www.lexology.com In Scottsdale Insurance Company v. Morrow Valley Land Valley Company, No. 11-905, 2012 WL 1950247 (Ark. May 31, 2012), the Supreme Court of Arkansas held that a pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability insurance policy was ambiguous and, therefore, did not bar a […]

Source: Taft Stettinius & HOllister LLP, William C. Wagner, August 9, 2012 Posted on: http://www.lexology.com A federal district court recently entered summary judgment against a dry cleaner on a property owner’s CERCLA claim for past response costs and declaratory judgment claim regarding future response costs, and allowed the property owner’s RCRA claims to proceed to […]

Source: Business Insurance, August 9, 2012 The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that policyholders involved in long-tail environmental claims can “stack” coverage limits over multiple policy years and can take an “all-sums” approach to indemnity allocation. The unanimous ruling in the State of California vs. Continental Insurance Co. et al. affirms an appellate court’s […]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI), August 6, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com West Shore Pipe Line Co. is expected to submit a ground water remediation plan to the state Department of Natural Resources by Wednesday that will describe how the company will remove and treat gasoline-tainted ground water in the Town of Jackson, a state environmental […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), August 6, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The operator of a truck terminal in Institute has agreed to pay a $49,756 fine for allegedly violating state pollution laws. Quala Systems Inc., headquartered in Exton, Pa., agreed to pay the fine for allegedly violating its permit to operate a disposal system for the […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Insurance giant AIG will pay nearly $79 million to the Los Angeles Unified School District to settle a lawsuit over its failure to pay claims on properties with environmental and pollution hazards, The Times has learned. Although AIG admitted no wrongdoing, the $78.8-million settlement, combined […]

Source: The Record (Hackensack, NJ), August 5, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Proposed cuts to the federal Superfund program may delay the long-term cleanup of cancer-causing chromium that has spread underneath a neighborhood of hundreds of homes and businesses in Garfield. President Obama’s plan to cut $37 million from the Superfund program as well as the […]

Source: St. Cloud Times (MN), August 2, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that it’s not trespassing when a pesticide sprayed on one property drifts to another property. The ruling overturns a decision last summer by the state Court of Appeals that said pesticide drifting from its intended farm onto an […]

Source: Cape Cod Times, July 31, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Waste from hundreds of restaurants collects in the Sandwich industrial park, but this is no dump. Cape Cod BioFuels turns the grease and used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel, most of which ends up heating homes across the Cape. The raw material, known in the […]

Read here about a natural gas drilling company in New York that is threatening to sue of regulators don’t stop local bans.

Source: Richmond Time-Dispatch, July 31, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Hercules Inc. has agreed to pay a $175,000 penalty and add $200,000 in pollution controls to settle alleged air-pollution violations at its Hopewell chemical plant, federal officials said today. According to the officials, the plant at 1111 Hercules Road had inadequate controls in place for limiting […]

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 23, 2012 Carondelet Coke was one of the most polluted places in Missouri. Allied Chemical and Ironton Coke was one of the most contaminated sites in Ohio. Each scored high enough on a hazard scale to be considered for inclusion on the U.S. government’s priority list for cleaning toxic sites. […]