Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/, Environmental Insider Be ready when life happens. These waste management situations illustrate the variety of environmental exposures that could affect your customers! A manufacturing company performed routine drum washing operations. Over time, solvent laced wash water migrated through cracks in the concrete and into the subsurface soils and groundwater. The plume of solvents […]

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com/, Environmental Insider Dirt – it’s a simple thing that can be more complicated than you might think – especially when it comes to construction projects and environmental impacts. Many construction sites require dirt, or “fill” for final grading of a site. Site work often involves the removal of tanks, building foundations, older roads, etc., […]

Source: https://legalnewsline.com/, November 18, 2019 By: Marian Johns Honeywell is claiming that Citgo is responsible for much of the millions it has spent cleaning up the release of petroleum and related hazardous substances in the land areas around New York’s Onodaga Lake. Honeywell International Inc. filed a complaint Sept. 30 in the U.S. District Court for the […]

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, November 13, 2019 By: Paula Gardner A former Big Three automotive parts factory located just yards from the Huron River is responsible for PFAS in groundwater at higher levels than previously found, state officials disclosed this month. Existing contamination at 2800 Zeeb Road in Scio Township goes back to when the Dexter-area building was owned […]

Source: https://www.businessinsurance.com/, November 13, 2019 By: Judy Greenwald Formal presentations to underwriters can help risk managers of construction firms navigate the hardening market when buying or renewing insurance, says a broker. “We do that with several clients,” said Steven D. Davis, Birmingham, Alabama-based senior vice president and director of the construction division at McGriff, Seibels […]

Source: Seattle Times, November 14, 2019 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Seattle Children’s hospital said it is closing all operating rooms on its Seattle campus for at least five days in an effort to get a handle on a recurring mold problem that, since last year, has killed one patient and sickened at least six others. The […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, November 13, 2019 Researchers are uncertain about the environmental impact of toxic chemicals used to extinguish a three-day blaze at a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility after some leaked into a busy commercial waterway. The fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility in Deer Park began in a naphtha tank March 17, igniting other tanks at […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, November 7, 2019 By: Karen A. Cullinane, Goldberg Segalla LLP Recent utility tests of drinking water on President Trump’s golf property in Bedminster, New Jersey, revealed, for the third time this year, the presence of perflurooctanoic acid (PFOA), which is one of the more common PFAS compounds. A lab retained by the New […]

Source: https://chemicalcitypaper.com, November 11, 2019 Under a proposed settlement announced by the United States, the State of Michigan and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, The Dow Chemical Company will implement and fund an estimated $77 million in natural resource restoration projects intended to compensate the public for injuries to natural resources caused by the release of hazardous […]

Source: https://www.waste360.com, November 8, 2019 As part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to help communities address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the PFAS Action Plan, the agency is releasing the Systematic Review Protocol for five PFAS toxicity assessments for a 45-day public comment period. The assessments are being developed under the Integrated Risk Information […]

Source: https://www.thecrimson.com/, November 8, 2019 By: Delano R. Franklin and Samuel W. Zwickel Harvard administrators relocated several Dunster House affiliates into temporary accommodations after discovering an outbreak of mold in September, according to several affected students. Kazi Tasnim ’22, who lives in Dunster, said House administrators moved residents of two separate suites to “emergency singles” […]

Source: https://abc7ny.com/, November 7, 2019 Concerned parents of students at a middle school on Long Island are held a sickout Thursday after ongoing reports about foul odors. Northport Middle School has been the repeated focus of inquiries related to air quality and the improper storage and disposal of potential contaminants. Read more.