Source: http://www.mynewmarkets.com, April 13, 2011 By: Alan M. Parizo Pollution coverage a necessary option for agribusiness? If that sounds like a contradiction in terms to the agribusiness agent, consider that the exposures his customers face in growing and servicing the food chain from farm to table involves a pollution exposure in every step of the […]

Check out Tim Farrell’s article “Insurance Is Far More Than a Piece of Paper,” which is published in the April issue of Construction Executive Magazine. http://ow.ly/4A8yx

Read here about a California design firm that has asked a Minnesota court not to allow the company to be sued for a Minneapolis bridge collapse.

Source: The Press-Enterprise, April 11, 2011 By: David Danelski School districts, the U.S. Marine Corps and Caltrans are among the public agencies and private companies that improperly shipped more than 160,000 tons of hazardous waste to an outdoor soil-recycling plant in Mecca that did not have a state permit to accept such waste, a Press-Enterprise […]

Read here about a former dry cleaning site in North Carolina that is being investigated for groundwater contamination.

Read here about an egg producer in Ohio that has been fined as a result of pollution complaints.

Source: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com, April 5, 2011 What used to be the old Zurbrugg Hospital in Riverside, NJ is now a pile of rubble. And now the State Division of Criminal Justice says preliminary reports indicate industrial products containing asbestos were found during a search by hazardous materials crews last week. The products were found in bags, […]

Source: http://www.wflx.com, April 6, 2011 By: Rachel Leigh The intersection of Midway and Glades Cut-Off roads shut down Wednesday morning following a spill of liquid fertilizer officials said. Liquid fertilizer reportedly was being transported in a tanker and there was a leak in the tank St. Lucie County Fire District spokeswoman Catherine Chaney said. The […]

Source: St. Petersburg Times, April 7, 2011 By: Craig Pittman The company that designed Tampa Bay Water’s troubled reservoir says it doesn’t need a multimillion-dollar repair job that would raise customers’ rates, as utility officials contend. Instead, according to HDR Engineering’s senior vice president, Tim Connolly, all the reservoir needs is regular monitoring for any […]

Source: Environmental Working Group, April 5, 2011 Posted on: http://www.publicworks.com 2004 Tests Found ‘Brockovich’ Chemical Nationwide Some water utility representatives have protested Environmental Working Group’s report of laboratory tests that found worrisome levels of chromium-6, a suspected carcinogen, in the drinking water of 31 cities across the country. Yet the tap water industry was worried […]

Read here about a $1.2 million waste settlement that the EPA reached with nearly 50 businesses in California.

Source: The New York Times, April 6, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Some 25 years ago, Ellen Wright was driving home through her neighborhood of single-family wood-frame houses here when she noticed that the streets were slick with ”green water.” ”It was a terrible thing,” said Mrs. Wright, now 77, recalling her unease. The liquid turned […]