Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/, January 21, 2020 The pollution exclusion has had a long history of being interpreted by the courts throughout the US.  Many substances have been held to come within the pollution exclusion, resulting in a bar of insurance coverage for costs sustained by policyholders addressing those substances in waterways and the air.  In a […]

Source: https://www.wsws.org/, January 22, 2020 By: Kevin Reed Michigan state environmental officials have revealed that tests near the site of a three-year toxic chemical leak at a Madison Heights industrial facility show PFAS contamination of surface water along with previously established hexavalent chromium contamination of the ground water. The Detroit News reported on January 17 […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, January 16, 2020 By: Stephen D. Daly, Manko Gold Katcher & Fox In December 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with support from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), held a public meeting to address the proposed listing of the Blades Groundwater Site in Sussex County, Delaware to […]

Source: https://www.reuters.com/, January 22, 2020 By: Timothy Gardner The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made “forever chemicals” is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group. The chemicals, resistant to breaking down in the […]

Source: https://www.law.nyu.edu/, January 17, 2020 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are bioaccumulative and environmentally persistent, have been widely used in commercial applications since the 1950s and have been linked to a series of human health harms, including cancer, kidney disease and birth and developmental disorders. The chemicals have been detected in the drinking water of more than six million Americans at a […]

Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/, January 21, 2020 The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let residents of Flint, Michigan pursue a civil rights lawsuit against the city and government officials that accused them of knowingly allowing the city’s water supply to become contaminated with lead. The justices turned away two appeals by the city and the state and […]

Source: https://www.yoursun.com/, January 20, 2020 By: Betsy Calvert By Monday, no one had publicly shared a plan yet on how to fix a leak of phosphate manufacturing fluids at Mosaic Company’s Bartow plant discovered Oct. 23. This may impact a decision by state regulators about a discharge permit that Mosaic needs to keep operating its […]

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/, January 15, 2020 A judge has granted class-action status to a lawsuit alleging an Indiana university breached its contract by provided substandard living assignments to thousands of students staying in residential halls where mold was found. Circuit Court Judge Holly Harvey’s Monday ruling comes as Indiana University’s residence centers Foster and McNutt are […]

Source: https://www.omaha.com/, January 16, 2020 By: Brody Hilgenkamp Groundwater vapor contamination related to a former Olde Towne Bellevue dry cleaning business poses immediate health threats to the area and has prompted federal action to clean up the site. The Environmental Protection Agency will hold two public meetings related to the former Carriage Cleaners site, which sat […]

Source: https://www.wnem.com/, January 14, 2020 By: Rachel McCrary and AnnMarie Kent The governor and attorney general are demanding that 17 companies responsible for using PFAS pay up. “The lawsuit is an important part of fighting PFAS contamination,” Attorney General Dana Nessel said. Nessel claims that these companies including 3M and Dupont not only knew about […]

Source: https://www.wzzm13.com/, January 16, 2020 Officials of Michigan’s environmental agency says the cleanup of an industrial site in suburban Detroit from which contaminated water leaked last month will likely cost millions of dollars. Tracy Kecskenmeti of the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy on Wednesday told Michigan lawmakers efforts to contain the leak […]

Source: https://www.mprnews.org/, January 14, 2020 By: Kirsti Marohn State researchers have found foam containing elevated levels of PFAS, sometimes known as “forever chemicals,” in two streams in the east Twin Cities metro area. Officials from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the Minnesota Department of Health said that there’s no immediate health threat to the […]