Source: https://www.lexology.com/, July 11, 2025 By: Andrew P. Van Osselaer, Storm Lineberger and Reese Letourneau, Haynes Boone Too often, concerns over environmental contamination impede negotiations in business transactions — especially those involving commercial property. These environmental risks can take many forms: known or potentially unknown on-site contamination, liability for off-site contamination (e.g., through waste disposal […]

Source: https://thebedfordcitizen.org/, July 11, 2025 By: Jenny Stewart Representatives from the Navy, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), joined a scant audience for a hybrid meeting of the Restoration Advisory Board (RAB) on July 8. The representatives, under the direction of newly appointed Navy Remedial Project […]

Source: https://www.bbc.com/, July 10, 2025 By: Michelle Fleury & Nathalie Jimenez When Beverly Morris retired in 2016, she thought she had found her dream home – a peaceful stretch of rural Georgia, surrounded by trees and quiet. Today, it’s anything but. Just 400 yards (366m) from her front porch in Mansfield, Georgia, sits a large, […]

Source: https://www.timesunion.com/, July 8m 2025 By: Brendan J. Lyons DuPont Co. has agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that was filed nearly a decade ago on behalf of residents in and around the village of Hoosick Falls, where the drinking water had been contaminated for decades by factories that used manufacturing chemicals produced by the […]

Source: https://www.constructiondive.com/, July 8, 2025 By: Matthew Thibault The California Legislature has rolled back provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act in an effort to spur housing construction and cut red tape for other types of projects, according to a June 30 news release from Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed the legislation the same day. The rollbacks, […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 3, 2025 Contractors from Maine, Connecticut and New York will pay $1.37 million to resolve allegations concerning false claims for payment related to the rehabilitation of a Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport runway in Westfield, Massachusetts. As part of the settlement agreement announced by the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, the three firms — Eurovia Atlantic […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, July 2, 2025 By: Chris Davis “Sending information into a broker and getting a quote is not going to get construction companies the results they want.” That’s the blunt assessment from Chelsi Hobbs (pictured), a commercial lines producer at CoVerica, on what she sees as a growing disconnect between coverage expectations and insurance […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, June 27, 2025 Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a settlement agreement with Domtar Industries, LLC and E.B. Eddy Paper, Inc. (together, Domtar) to address releases of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at the Techni-Comp, Inc. composting site near Port Huron. Nessel filed a lawsuit against the paper manufacture in December 2022. Read […]

Source: https://www.npr.org/, March 28, 2025 By: Teresa Homsi Biosolids (a byproduct of wastewater treatment) are often used as fertilizer. But toxic “forever chemicals”, or PFAS, could be contaminating that fertilizer, along with millions of acres of farmland. Read more.

Source: https://natlawreview.com/, April 20, 2022 By: John Gardella On April 15, 2022, the Maine state House and Senate both passed a bill (LD 1911) that would ban the use of biosolids that contain PFAS in land applications, unless it can be shown that the biosolids are PFAS free. While the PFAS biosolids ban addressed growing […]

Source: https://www.stlpr.org/, May 29, 2024 By: Teresa Homsi The EPA could soon face a lawsuit for not protecting farmers from “forever chemicals.” Biosolids are a type of treated sewage byproduct that make a nutrient-rich fertilizer, but PFAS are slipping through the cracks of wastewater treatment and could be contaminating millions of acres of farmland. Few […]

Source: https://www.epa.gov/ Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been manufactured and used by a broad range of industries since the 1940s, and there are estimated to be thousands of PFAS present in the global marketplace that are used in many consumer, commercial and industrial products. Multiple activities still result in PFAS being released to wastewater treatment […]