Source: http://wfla.com, March 27, 2017 By: Melissa Marino Developer Drummond Company, Inc. has sent a letter to residents responding to a federal lawsuit alleging contamination in the Oakbridge and Grasslands communities. The two upscale subdivisions in Lakeland are named in a Federal lawsuit that claims developers in Polk County failed to notify thousands of new homeowners that they […]

Source: http://www.fosters.com, March 22, 2017 By: Judi Currie The City Council is moving forward with a plan to clean up the former Breton’s Cleaners site and demolish the building. The former dry cleaning business at 1 Winter St. has been closed for more than a decade. The property sits along the banks of the Salmon […]

Source: http://www.sightline.org, March 22, 2017 By: Eric de Place The polluter responsible is trying to wriggle off the hook. There’s a modern-day monster lurking under Tacoma’s industrial lands. Mixed in with the groundwater is a stew of pollution from a shuttered chemical plant: PCBs—toxic chemicals the EPA banned in 1979—and volatile organic chemicals so alkaline […]

Source: http://www.lawtimesnews.com, March 20, 2017 By: Alex Robinson May impact plaintiffs in environmental damage claims Lawyers say a recent Ontario Superior Court decision finding an Ottawa dry cleaning company but not a principal of the business liable for a spill could have significant implications for compensation orders in prosecutions related to historic contamination. In Huang […]

Source: Anniston Star (AL), March 15, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The Environmental Protection Agency is planning a new round of excavation to get toxic chemicals out of Anniston’s soil. EPA officials last week proposed a plan to dig up soil at some sites along Snow Creek that remain contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs — […]

Source: Insurance Law360, March 7, 2017, By:  Wm. Gerald McElroy, Jr. Posted on: http://www.jdsupra.com Environmental impairment liability (EIL) policies currently available in the market provide very broad coverage. Thus, an EIL policy may provide coverage for an insured’s owned site clean-up costs, off-site clean-up costs, third party claims for bodily injury or property damage, and […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, March 9, 2017 By: Larry Griffin Contaminated soil vapor can enter a building through cracks or other openings in a building’s foundation Insurers have long wrestled with claims for soil and groundwater pollution under both pre-1986 commercial general liability (CGL) policies and modern environmental impairment liability policies, but recently a new trend in […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, March 6, 2017 By: Gloria Gonzalez President Donald Trump’s energy infrastructure push may create business opportunities for insurers, but they will still likely be wary of some of the projects due to their environmental risks. Robert Hartwig, clinical associate professor in the finance department and co-director of the Center for Risk and Uncertainty […]

Source: https://www.usgs.gov, March 6, 2017 Tests of 75 private drinking water wells in Lycoming County, in north-central Pennsylvania, found water from most of the sampled wells contained concentrations of radon that exceeded a proposed, nonbinding health standard for drinking water. Smaller percentages of the wells contained concentrations of arsenic or methane that exceed existing drinking […]

Source: Seattle Times, February 28, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by the city of Seattle against Monsanto to make the company pay for the cleanup of toxic PCBs from the city’s drainage system and the Duwamish River. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik, in denying […]

Source: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), February 26, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com You can’t see it. You can’t smell it. But toxic vapor rising from soils contaminated decades ago by industrial solvents is creating new and expensive headaches for property owners across Minnesota. Pollution officials have identified hundreds of sites across the state that are contaminated […]

Source: http://wane.com, February 20, 2017 The 31 acres GE Campus off-Broadway was once home to industrial effects like pollutants and asbestos but now as developers move forward they have to make sure the campus is safe for an entirely different development. Before any construction can begin, there’s a crucial step of cleanup. And future plans […]