Source: AFP World News, June 5, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Animal rescue workers on Monday were frantically cleaning hundreds of birds after an oil spill in the Rotterdam harbour at the weekend, when an oil tanker hit a jetty dumping some 200 tonnes of bunker fuel. The Norwegian tanker Bow Jubail on Saturday crashed against […]

Source: AFP World News, June 25, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Animal rescue workers on Monday were frantically cleaning hundreds of birds after an oil spill in the Rotterdam harbour at the weekend, when an oil tanker hit a jetty dumping some 200 tonnes of bunker fuel. The Norwegian tanker Bow Jubail on Saturday crashed against […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, June 15, 2018 By: Dawn M. Meyers, Berger Singerman LLP In the transactional world, it has long been standard operating procedure to conduct due diligence and, should environmental conditions be found, contract around them through the use of indemnifications. With a booming economy, though, sellers in a seller’s market have grown less willing […]

By: RT New Day, June 19, 2018 Here we go again. The hurricane season officially began June 1 with AccuWeather predicting three to five major hurricanes between now and November. Last year, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria caused nearly $300 billion in total damages, while negatively impacting millions of lives. That’s because even after the […]

Source: https://www.freep.com, May 30, 2018 By: Kristen Jordan Shamus It couldn’t have been just the switch in the source of the water that caused the 2014-15 Genessee County Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that sickened 90 people and killed 12, a report released Tuesday from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services suggests. Rather, the state’s top health officials say that […]

Source: https://www.heraldnet.com, May 18, 2018 By: Kari Bray Monsanto is accused of sickening adults and children by exposing them to toxic substances. A company that has faced lawsuits around the country recently sought dismissal of a local case in which families say they were sickened by toxic chemicals at school buildings in Monroe. A King […]

Read here about a lawsuit against a hog farm for horrendous odors.

Source: https://www.timesunion.com, May 14, 2018 By: Brian Nearing The state will be digging out an underground plume of potentially carcinogenic chemicals beneath a former Washington Avenue dry cleaners near several homes routinely rented to college students. Plans by the Department of Environmental Conservation call for a $120,000 cleanup at the former site of RKO Cleaners, […]

Source: https://www.stanforddaily.com, May 11, 2018 By: Holden Foreman On Feb. 23, Stanford filed a federal lawsuit against multiple Hewlett-Packard companies, seeking millions in damages for HP’s purported chemical contamination of “substantial portions” of 1601 S. California Avenue — land that Stanford owns — during a grading project sometime between 1970 and 1999. The named corporations in the original […]

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com, May 8, 2018 By: Kyra Gurney and Jenny Staletovich Miami Beach is moving forward with plans to clean up four contaminated city-owned properties, including a park and a former golf course, in order to redevelop the sites. The city is in the process of designating the properties as “brownfields,” a first for Miami […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 18, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com PPG Industries Inc. is solely liable for chemicals it has allowed to spill into the Allegheny River over the last several decades, a federal judge ruled. A six-year-old lawsuit that two environmental groups filed against PPG over chemical emissions at its former Ford City glass facility […]

Source: Great American Insurance Group, Environmental Insider, April 2018 Over the past 10 years, environmental regulation development and implementation have continued to evolve and change. Since the creation of the EPA, about 200 new environmental regulations per year (7) were promulgated. Currently there are about 27,074 pages of environmental regulation in Title 40 of the Code of […]