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 […]

Source: http://www.times-standard.com, February 17, 2017 By: RUTh Schneider What started out as a very contentious situation has morphed into something more collaborative. That’s how North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board engineering geologist Dave Parson portrays the situation at the former site of Norman’s Dry Cleaners in Henderson Center in Eureka. “It’s quite a success […]

Source: http://www.ecowatch.com, February 18, 2017 By: Lorraine Chow Monsanto may be looking forward to turning a new leaf with its potential $66 billion mega-merger with Bayer AG, but the agrochemical giant just can’t shake its notorious past as the primary manufacturer of highly toxic and banned substances called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, that were once […]

Source: http://www.startribune.com, February 16, 2017 By: Erin Adler Cleanup of the closed Burnsville site could cost $64 million. Nearly 200 businesses, cities and school districts got letters from the federal government this week informing them that they “may be liable” to pay for the cleanup of the Freeway Landfill in Burnsville, which has been estimated […]

Source: http://webwire.com, February 16, 2017 LA Testing provides analytical services and sampling supplies to help detect Legionella outbreaks. A resident from a California nursing home tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease. A local news station reported that the facility shut off access to the water supply under the direction of state and local health officials as […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 14, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The family of a Pittsburgh man who died in October after contracting a fungal infection while he was a cancer patient at UPMC Shadyside filed a lawsuit today alleging negligence by UPMC and the company that washes all of UPMC’s laundry, Paris Cleaners Inc. The lawsuit […]

Source: http://www.twcnews.com, February 10,2017 By: Geoff Redick The small Rensselaer County village rocked by a contaminated water crisis in 2016 is now facing the spectre of more chemicals, this time found in the village’s air. The news, published Thursday evening on the village website, comes from Honeywell International, a company that once operated a factory […]