Source: The Environmental Magazine, March 1, 2013 By: Maggie Wolf Peterson With Arsenic Concerns, Rice Loses Its Celebrated Status Rice is known by nutritionists as a “first food.” Easily digested and bland, it is often the first solid food a baby receives. Prior to that, babies may be exposed to rice starch and brown rice […]

Read here about a Missouri lawsuit that claims tannery sludge causes tumors.

Source: http://www.midwestadvocates.org, July 19, 2006 Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager announced today that her office has both filed and settled an environmental lawsuit in Dodge County Circuit Court against Nehls Brothers Farms, Ltd. Under the settlement, Nehls Brothers agrees to the following: Nehls Brothers will pay over $42,000 to reimburse three near-by well owners for their […]

Read here about an egg producer recently fined nearly $2 million by the EPA.

Source:  Joplin Globe (MO), May 7, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Twelve Barton County plaintiffs, who alleged their way of life was turned upside down when a factory hog farm began operations in 2007 near their rural homes, were awarded $1.95 million in damages Saturday by a jury in Henry County. In closing arguments Friday, the […]

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

Source: Belleville News-Democrat, IL, March 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Seven years after water districts filed suit against the makers of a farm herbicide, the class-action lawsuit is still mired in legal machinations in Madison County. The Holiday Shores Sanitary District was one of 13 public water districts to file suit against Syngenta, maker of […]

Publication Date 01/15/2011 Source: Sun Journal (New Bern, NC) Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Jones County hog farm that is the target of a potential lawsuit for alleged pollution of a nearby creek with hog waste has changed hands, and the new owner has also been threatened with the suit. Donald E. Taylor of Pink Hill […]

Publication Date 01/04/2011 Source: Newsday (Melville, NY) Posted on http://envfpn.advisen.com Back in 1979, an insecticide that Suffolk potato farmers used to kill beetles and roundworms turned up in several private water wells. Aldicarb is toxic in large doses, and it wasn’t supposed to leach into groundwater. But it did. Today, decades after the chemical was […]

Read here about a grape grower in Oregon fighting pesticides invading their property from other areas.

Acknowledgement to XL Environmental THE CLAIM Soil sampling activities at an XL insured’s facility indicated low levels of fertilizer constituent contamination over a large percentage of the site. Sampling results were submitted to the state regulatory agency which required a corrective action plan (CAP) be submitted for approval, subsequent site excavation and remediation. A toxic […]

Acknowledgement to XL Environmental THE CLAIM An XL insured retail agricultural-chemical distribution facility selling bulk fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides was inspected by a state environmental protection agency (EPA). The EPA inspection found several fresh spills of liquid and dry fertilizers at various locations around the insured’s property. Soil samples indicated widespread concentrations of nitrates, sulfates, […]