Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com, Environmental Insider Summer 2019 The environmental insurance market continues to grow by adopting past best practices to handle new and emerging risks.  Working together with diverse practice groups in law, brokerage, engineering, and the sciences; environmental insurance serves a critical client need on property transactions and contractors risks. Standard industry practices evolve on […]

Source: https://www.greatamericaninsurancegroup.com, Environmental Insider Summer 2019 With continued public and regulatory attention on emerging contaminants such as Poly and Perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and 1, 4-dioxane, environmental insurance should be a ‘must-have’ for owners facing pollution exposure. However, the status of the emerging regulations or even the facility regulatory lifecycle phase, can significantly alter the nature […]

Source: https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com, August 13, 2019 By: Michelle Brunetti Post The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a $36 million cleanup of about 40 nonresidential properties contaminated by the former pesticide manufacturer Kil-Tone Co. Read more.

Source: https://www.wunc.org, August 13, 2019 By: Dan Boyce For decades, the Venetucci family ran a small farm in Colorado Springs. Each Halloween, they grew pumpkins that they gave away to local children. When the Pikes Peak Community Foundation took over the farm in 2006, it continued the pumpkin tradition and also grew organic vegetables – until chemical […]

Source: https://www.azcentral.com, August 13, 2019 By: Ian James & Andrew Nicla The water beneath a large swath of Phoenix isn’t fit to drink. A plume of toxic chemicals has tainted the groundwater for decades, and it’s now at the center of a bitter fight over how the aquifer should be cleaned up and what should happen […]

Source: https://www.advisen.com, August 12, 2019 A lawsuit filed Monday alleges “negligence in the operation and maintenance of the water systems” caused a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at a downtown Atlanta hotel that killed one person and potentially sickened dozens. State and county health officials are investigating the outbreak among people who stayed at or visited the […]

Source: https://abcnews.go.com, August 12, 2019 By: Elizabeth Thomas More than eight months after officials in Newark, New Jersey, began handing out nearly 40,000 filters to help protect residents from elevated levels of lead, tests of three homes containing filters earlier this month showed that elevated lead levels in the water remained. In a letter to Newark […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, August 12, 2019 The Nez Perce Tribe has filed a lawsuit to force a Canadian company to clean up an idle central Idaho mining area – which the company says it plans to do if it gets approval from U.S. officials to restart mining at the site. The tribe contends in the federal […]

Source: https://www.argusleader.com, August 8, 2019 By: Jonaythan Ellis and Joe Sneve The developer and construction company behind the collapse of the former Copper Lounge building in downtown Sioux Falls in 2016 have agreed to a settlement worth more than $4 million. The agreement, reached in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of South Dakota and […]

Source: https://www.wcbi.com, August 9, 2019 Glyphosate faces a test inside America’s homes Bayer, which bought Roundup maker Monsanto last year, has reportedly offered $8 billion to settle thousands cancer claims. Lawyers for the consumers who claim glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, caused their cancer, want $10 billion, according to Bloomberg. Bayer’s stock price has […]

Source: https://www.publicsource.org, August 12, 2019 By: Oliver Morrison Airport officials say they’re doing everything the law requires regarding PFAS. Experts say the law doesn’t go far enough. Reports from former firefighters, airport records, expert scientists and a military study indicate that the Pittsburgh International Airport is likely the source of a PFAS chemical plume. Airport […]

Source: https://www.nj.com, August 11, 2019 By: KarenYi Responding to reports that filters are not protecting residents from elevated lead levels in their drinking water, Newark officials on Sunday said they will distribute bottled water to households with old lead pipes after federal officials urged the city to take action “as soon as possible.” The U.S. Environmental […]