Source: Chicago Tribune, November 15, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Six months after U.S. Steel dumped a plume of toxic metal into a Lake Michigan tributary, the company quietly reported another spill at the same northwest Indiana plant and asked state environmental regulators to keep it secret, according to newly released documents. The 56.7 pounds of […]

Source: http://www.commercialappeal.com, November 12, 2017 By: Tom Charlier Investigators at a Memphis hazardous waste site discovered “elevated levels” of a toxic dry-cleaning solvent in the aquifer supplying the city with drinking water, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spokesman said. The chemical – tetrachloroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene, or simply “perc” – was found 150 feet below ground […]

Source: http://www.crainsdetroit.com, November 11, 2017 By: Ted Roelofs With the click of an email, the credibility of an iconic Michigan shoe company’s environmental practices has taken another hit. Rockford-based Wolverine Worldwide Inc., best known for its Hush Puppies shoes, has been on the defensive this year over toxic chemicals that seeped from one of its […]

Source: https://stlrecord.com, November 10, 2017 By: Sam Knef The Missouri Supreme Court has sided with an insurer that appealed a judgment entered by a St. Louis County judge over pollution claims at a smelting facility in Peru that is owned by a company it covers. In a unanimous opinion filed Oct. 31, the high court reversed St. […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, November 9, 2017 By: Luke Nozicka The borough has reached a more than $7 million settlement with the owner of an old metals-refining factory to complete its cleanup of contaminated areas at its former smelter site. The settlement requires U.S. Metals Refining Company to pay $4.25 million to end further litigation and to fund environmental and public health […]

Source: http://www.constructionbusinessowner.com, October 26, 2017 By: Jeffery M. Slivka & Bill Webb, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC 4 alternatives for securing against construction project professional liability No matter whether it is designed to protect owners, architects, engineers or general contractors, the securing of project professional liability coverage can be complicated. Professional liability exposure exists for […]

Source: http://www.sj-r.com, October 30, 2017 By: Tim Landis The nine-month, $1.8 million cleanup at the former Pillsbury Mills plant in Springfield — including tons of asbestos-contaminated debris — should be completed this week with removal of barrels containing waste oil and other chemicals. Federal and state court cases, meanwhile, are pending against the site owners. […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 23, 2017 By: Rachel Jacobson and Nathaniel Custer, WilmerHale On October 4, the Ninth Circuit reversed the District Court for the Southern District of California’s decision to allocate to a government contractor 100 percent of cleanup costs for hazardous contamination at a manufacturing facility for failure to consider the involvement of the […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 24, 2017 By: Adam Levine, CPA, Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams Every business requires comprehensive insurance coverage to protect its assets and income. However, property owners and developers need to consider more than just general liability, workers’ compensation and business interruption policies. Professional Liability Insurance Real estate development projects often span months […]

The Moroun family’s purchase last month of McLouth Steel in downriver Trenton signaled redevelopment would finally happen of the 188-acre contaminated site that’s been vacant for the last 20 years. But before the Morouns’ purchase from Wayne County is final, they have until mid-December to work out a deal with the U.S. EPA detailing how the site will be restored, including […]

Read here about a recent study by the Lancet medical journal that found the extent of the costs and fatalities of pollution each year.

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, October 18, 2017 By: Brian Nearing The state is moving ahead with plans to clean up the badly polluted site of a long-abandoned dry-cleaning business in Colonie. Plans for the former Damshire Cleaners, at 1205 Central Ave., call for removal of potentially cancer-causing dry cleaning chemicals from underground that are moving toward nearby homes […]