Source: Herald News, July 24, 2006 By: Jennifer H. Cunningham In 1989, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s antiquated treatment plant in Newark was dumping toxic pollutants into the lower Passaic River — further fouling one of the dirtiest waterways in the country. Now, 17 years later, no action […]

Source: http://www.recordonline.com, February 5, 2011 By: Michael Randall The town is going to federal court to force a company to clean up ground water contamination allegedly from a manufacturing plant the firm sold 20 years ago. The parties have a court date Feb. 17. The alleged contamination is in Little Falls Park in the Ducktown […]

Source: http://www.keysnet.com, February 4, 2011 By: Gary Phillips Key Largo wastewater commissioners are buying insurance to protect the sewer agency in case of a pollution spill that could be costly to clean up, or lawsuits over things like odor from the wastewater facility. Debbie MacAfee of insurance company T.R. Jones and Co. told the commissioners […]

Acknowledgment to Great American Great American Insurance Group’s Environmental Division is pleased to announce that it has been named as a Selected Insurance Carrier for the Massachusetts Brownfield Redevelopment Access to Capital (“BRAC”) Program by the Massachusetts Business Development Corporation. The BRAC Program promotes access to private sources of loan and investment capital for the […]

Source: http://www.nytimes.com, October 11, 2006 By: Ralph Blumenthal A bankrupt copper giant facing billions of dollars in pollution claims across the nation pretended for years to recycle metals while illegally burning hazardous waste in a notorious El Paso smelter, according to a newly released Environmental Protection Agency document. The agency, in a 1998 internal memorandum, […]

Acknowledgement to Chartis Insurance An insured’s manufacturing facility maintained a series of above ground storage tanks. A leak in one of the tanks resulted in a release of a hydrochloric acid vapor cloud. Residents in the immediate vicinity, including a nearby trailer park, were evacuated and several sought medical treatment for alleged respiratory injuries, for […]

Acknowledgement to Chartis Insurance A contractor was retained to perform routine maintenance at a refinery. While replacing a steam supply valve in a critical pipe, a back draft of hydrogen sulfide gas was released and asphyxiated the employee of the third-party contractor, instantly killing him. His wife initiated a wrongful death lawsuit against the refinery […]

Acknowledgement to Chartis Insurance A “misoperation” occurred during a chemical reactor startup when a plant operator activated the wrong controls, which resulted in pressure build up in the reactor, thus activating the release valve. Both ammonia and propylene gas were released into the air resulting in nearby residents being exposed and seeking medical treatment at […]

Source: The Record (Hackensack, NJ), July 27, 2007 By: Alex Nussbaum Marcal Paper Mills Inc. will pay the federal government about $1.5 million under a proposed settlement of a pollution claim against the company. Details of the agreement were filed in federal Bankruptcy Court in Newark on Thursday, a month after the government leveled a […]

Source: BestWire Services, October 10, 2006 By David Dankwa Companies that transported hazardous chemicals to a North Carolina waste plant that exploded Oct. 5, sending a mushroom cloud of noxious gases and flames into the night sky, could find themselves defending against potential lawsuits stemming from the incident, experts say. That’s because under the Resource […]

Source: The Hartford Courant, August 14, 2008 The issue of contamination from lead bullets and shotgun pellets has been cropping up for years around the country, and there have been several lawsuits involving federal environmental laws that have prompted ranges to close and, in some cases, forced them to clean up the lead. The federal […]

Source: http://www.pottstownmercury.com, January 23, 2007 By: Evan Brandt Monitoring has found dangerously high levels of a carcinogenic chemical in the air around Collegeville, state officials have announced. The levels are higher than anywhere else in the region and the state is now trying to reduce emissions of that chemical from two local factories. The chemical […]