Source: https://www.aviationpros.com/, June 18, 2020 By: Garret Ellison More than 30,000 gallons of toxic fluorochemical foam has been collected from municipal fire departments and commercial airports in Michigan in an effort that state officials believe is the nation’s largest collection and disposal program of its type. The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy […]

Source: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN), June 18, 2020 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Shortly after LeAnne Renteria and her husband moved to South St. Paul in 2003, they got their first whiff of what gave the city its blue-collar reputation and “Cow Town” moniker: the stockyards. But when the yards closed in April 2008, a stench […]

Source: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/, June 19, 2020 By: Lisa Sorg Chemours could be fined after state environmental regulators cited the company for dumping soil and tree roots likely contaminated with perfluorinated compounds into an unlined landfill. The NC Department of Environmental Quality found that Chemours failed to test the material for PFAS contamination before transporting multiple loads of […]

Source: https://www.gmtoday.com/, June 18, 2020 The village this week shared an update on the former Clark Station site that has stood vacant at the corner of Washington Street and 11th Avenue since the middle of 2016. Cleanup has officially started at the site and soil excavation has been completed. The building will soon be demolished, […]

Source: https://www.latimes.com/, June 17, 2020 By: Tony Barboza The Los Angeles Unified School District filed suit against a metal recycling facility adjacent to Jordan High School in Watts, alleging it has endangered students and teachers by releasing sharp pieces of metal, smoke, fumes and more onto school grounds. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court […]

Source: https://www.watertechonline.com/, June 12, 2020 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Justice Department announce the lodging today of a proposed consent decree in federal District Court that would require Atlantic Richfield to undertake or finance over $150 million of clean-up work at the Butte Priority Soils Operable Unit (BPSOU) site in Montana. This […]

Source: https://www.detroitnews.com/, June 13, 2020 By: Sarah Rahal The Air Force Civil Engineer Center announced it is awarding a contract in July that will expand capture zones to better control migration of PFAS contaminants from a former air force base in Oscoda following pushes from politicians. The Air Force announced the contract Friday with plans […]

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, June 10, 2020 By: Judy Greenwald A Chubb Ltd. unit is not obligated to defend a building operator sued in connection with spraying pesticides because of its coverage’s pollution exclusion, said a federal appeals court Wednesday, in upholding a lower court ruling. Oklahoma City-based MHJ Properties Ltd. was sued in state court by […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, June 8, 2020 A Waterloo, Iowa, chemical plant will pay a nearly $80,000 civil penalty to settle violations of federal Clean Air Act following a spill last year that hurt a worker there, federal officials said. The federal Environmental Protection Agency said in a news release that Hydrite Chemical also took necessary steps […]

Source: Billings Gazette (MT), June 4, 2020 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ A group of Billings homeowners and the geotechnical engineers they sued after homes started settling into the ground have reached a tentative agreement. Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit are homeowners in the Copper Ridge subdivision on the far West End. Together with Rimrock Engineering […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, June 4, 2020 By: Letitia D. MOore, Holland & Knight LLP California continues to develop tools for evaluating per- and polfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at cleanup sites. In May 2020, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board issued an “Interim Final Environmental Screening Levels (ESLs) for Per- and Polfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Perfluorooctane […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, June 3, 2020 By: Jennifer C. Baker, Barnes & Thornburg LLP Never heard of that chemical? It could be an emerging contaminant, which calls for careful consideration as to whether there is insurance coverage for environmental investigations and remediation that may be required due to its presence in the environment. What are emerging […]