Source: https://www.lohud.com, February 1, 2018 By: David McKay Wilson Westchester has discovered groundwater contamination at the county airport, with officials suspecting it was caused by chemicals used in firefighting foam decades ago. Preliminary results from one monitoring well, located near a former Air National Guard septic field, found contaminants in concentrations that were 14 times the limit set by […]

Source: http://www.thedailystar.com, January 30, 2018 By: Whitney Bashaw The state Department of Environmental Conservation began preliminary cleanup to a 3-acre Superfund site a half-mile north of the center of Norwich on Monday. Nine different contaminants are present at the site. The soil, soil vapor and groundwater of the Lee Avenue Railroad Site, designated as a State Superfund […]

Source: https://www.environmentalleader.com, January 24, 2018 Environmental insurance claims are the most complex insurance coverage claims, often with substantial sums at stake. There are many hurdles that the policyholder must clear in order to obtain coverage for environmental claims. Insurance companies often seek to end an environmental coverage action by making a motion for summary judgment, […]

Source: http://www.gctelegram.com, January 24, 2018 By: Mary Clarkin Contamination at a former dry cleaner’s location that Hutchinson USD 308 hopes to buy has delayed the purchase. School officials preface comments with “if” when talking about acquiring the former Dillons supermarket building at 517 E. 30th Ave., which had an attached dry cleaning business, for an […]

Crews worked through the night trying to remove a truck load of honey that spilled in Route 291 near Philadelphia International Airport when a tractor-trailer flipped on its side Tuesday evening. There were no reports of serious injuries in the 5:30 P.M. crash at Route 291 and Scott Way in Tinicum Township. But more than […]

Source: https://www.nbcbayarea.com, January 18, 2018 By: Damian Trujillo San Jose city leaders are targeting a vacant lot near City Hall for development of a high rise, but critics say the land is contaminated with at least one toxic chemical, and they’ve filed a lawsuit to ensure it’s cleaned up. The site on Fourth and Saint […]

Source: http://nooga.com, January 10, 2018 Officials identified Norfolk Southern as the source of the fuel spill that emptied more than 1,000 gallons of petroleum into Citico Creek near the mouth of the Tennessee River Monday night. “The spill originated from DeButts Yard and Norfolk Southern has taken responsibility for the spill and has assured city, state […]

Source: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), December 25, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com After decades of pollution that turned Onondaga Lake into a toxic cesspool, Honeywell has agreed to pay $9.5 million in damages and build 20 restoration projects. The federal Department of Justice filed documents in federal court Wednesday, but the settlement was not announced until after […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, December 21, 2017 By: Garrett D. Trego, Manko Gold Katcher & Fox A putative class of plaintiffs who allege to have lived in a defined geographic area around a manufacturing plant in Merrimack, New Hampshire, or have been served by the town’s municipal water supply, sued the manufacturer in federal court, alleging property […]

Source: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com, December 20, 2017 By: Jim Haddadin Utility provider Eversource will pay the town $500,000 to settle claims it failed to clean up a polluted Southside property it acquired nearly a decade ago. Selectmen voted during a closed-door meeting Tuesday to accept the company’s settlement offer, which also requires Eversource to clean up lingering […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, December 20, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com This article was originally published in the North Carolina Association of Launderers and Cleaners’ carolina clean magazine, Holiday 2017 issue. To view the original publication, click here. OK, OK, I get it: your mother didn’t raise you to be a lawyer. But the exposure to environmental claims […]

Source: http://www.nwitimes.com, December 18, 2017 By: Sarah Reese The U.S Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it issued two unilateral administrative orders to six companies to clean up soil and indoor dust at the USS Lead Superfund site. The soil cleanup ordered for zone 2 — the second of three residential cleanup areas at the Superfund site […]