Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/, November 10, 2021 By: Carol Thompson Northville Township has filed a lawsuit against the owners of Arbor Hills Landfill, a waste facility under continued scrutiny from state and federal environmental regulators as neighbors complain of a stench wafting from the site on Six Mile Road. Township officials are accusing the landfill operators of dumping contaminated wastewater into […]

Source: https://www.news10.com/, November 11, 2021 By: Sara Rizzo A settlement has been reached in a class-action lawsuit over PFOA contamination in Bennington. The settlement with Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation requires them to pay $34.15 million to affected Bennington residents. “This settlement provides significant compensation and medical monitoring to the Bennington community affected by the PFOA […]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, November 9, 2021 By: Sebastien Malo California’s largest groundwater agency has sued 3M Co, Corteva Inc, the Chemours Co and other manufacturers and sellers of industrial and consumer products over claims they contain a toxic chemical that polluted drinking water in Los Angeles. The Water Replenishment District of Southern California (WRD), which oversees […]

Source: https://www.mycentraljersey.com/, November 10, 2021 By: Suzanne Russell A week after Middlesex Water Company expanded notices of water contamination exceeding government standards to six towns, the mayors of those towns said they have retained legal counsel to investigate the water company’s actions. The mayors of Carteret, Clark, Edison, Metuchen, South Plainfield and Woodbridge announced Tuesday they […]

Source: https://www.propertycasualty360.com/, November 8, 2021 By: Drew Rothman and Steven G. Bardsley “Help! My legal fees exhausted the limits on my insurance policy. What can I do now?” This is often the lament of contractors embroiled in the litigation of costly claims. Unfortunately, once the terms and conditions are set and the ink is dry […]

Source: https://wfpl.org/, November 8, 2021 By: Ryan Van Velzer and Tom Scheck Back in May of 2020, a food producer was looking at the city of Henderson for a $100 million investment in a city-owned industrial site near the Ohio River. For a city in a rural part of western Kentucky, the business was an […]

Source: https://www.newstimes.com/, November 5, 2021 By: Julia Perkins Joel Barlow High School closed for the second day in a row on Friday as school officials work to address a contaminated water supply caused by a contracted worker accidentally putting some oil into a water tank. A contractor poured about 20 gallons of fuel oil into […]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, November 4, 2021 By: Sebastien Malo A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday mostly denied a bid by Exxon Mobil Corp and dozens of other defendants to toss claims that they contaminated the state’s groundwaters with a gasoline additive. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Baltimore denied the defendants’ request to throw out about […]

Source: https://www.courthousenews.com/, November 3, 2021 By: Nicholas Iovino In a lawsuit over century-old pollution from a defunct gas plant, two lawyers urged a federal judge Wednesday to adopt their interpretations of what historic business records say about Pacific Gas and Electric’s liability for potential groundwater contamination. “What we have here is irrefutable evidence that San […]

Source: https://www.newsobserver.com/, November 4, 2021 By: Adam Wagner and Jonathan Limehouse The North Carolina Department of Justice filed suit Thursday against more than a dozen manufacturers of firefighting foam that contains toxic “forever chemicals,” accusing the companies of failing to tell those using the foam how to properly handle it, leading to groundwater contamination at […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, November 1, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Insurers should work with clients to help them shift toward greener business models instead of shying away from polluting sectors, executives said Monday at an event coinciding with the COP26 United Nations climate summit in Glasgow. The insurance industry shouldn’t become “an exclusion machine” […]

Source: https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/, November 2, 2021 By: Lisa Sorg The NC Department of Environmental Quality is taking Colonial Pipeline to court for allegedly “failing to meet their obligations” in its clean up of a 1.29-million gallon gasoline spill in Huntersville, the nation’s largest such accident since 1991. According to the complaint, filed in Mecklenburg County Superior Court, […]