By Jefferey S. Lejfer, CEO, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC By its nature, the issue of environmental liability is an ever-changing beast. Spurred on by the earliest federal regulations in the 1970s that mandate clean air and water, resource recovery, and environmental response, carriers offered insurance lines to manage the associated risks as they developed […]

Source: http://www.wwnytv.com, May 13, 2016 Ground contamination created by the old New York Air Brake decades ago will be cleaned up. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation made the announcement Friday. The DEC said soils and sediment along the bank of Kelsey Creek at the North Watertown Cemetery will be removed. The ground […]

Source: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com, MAY 14, 2016 By: Craig Fox Coming three years after contaminants were found, the state announced on Friday it was proceeding with a $1.5 million cleanup near Kelsey Creek of pollutants that were dumped decades ago at the former New York Air Brake plant. In a press release, the state Department of Environmental […]

Source: http://www.hcn.org, May 16, 2016 By: Sarah Gilman Cities take a new tack to fight pollutants: targeting companies who make them. Portland, Oregon’s Willamette is no wilderness river. But on a spring day, downstream of downtown, wildness peeks through. Thick forest rises beyond a tank farm on the west bank. A sea lion thrashes to […]

Source: http://patch.com, May 12, 2016 By: Vincent Salzo Crews began the excavation and removal of contaminated soil to pave the way for The Haven outlet mall development project. WEST HAVEN, CT — Crews from a Bloomfield remediation, engineering and development company have launched the highly anticipated environmental cleanup of 105 Water Street and 16 Elm […]

Source: http://www.plasticsnews.com, May 12, 2016 By: Steve Toloken Residents near a Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. plant in Vermont filed a class action lawsuit against the company May 6, accusing it of polluting groundwater sources with perfluorooctanoic acid. The lawsuit accuses Saint-Gobain and previous owners of the North Bennington, Vt., factory of negligence in discharging “significant” […]

Source: http://www.montgomerynews.com, May 11, 2016 By: Linda Finarelli A little less than 24 hours after a contractor working at the Glenside community pool allegedly discharged a contaminant into the Tookany Creek, the material had been cleaned up. Cheltenham Township Manager Bryan Havir said Wednesday morning that residents who live near the pool on Waverly Road […]

Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca, May 8, 2016 By: Sharon Kelly Thousands of oil and gas industry wastewater spills in North Dakota have caused “widespread” contamination from radioactive materials, heavy metals and corrosive salts, putting the health of people and wildlife at risk, researchers from Duke University concluded in a newly released peer-reviewed study. Some rivers and streams in […]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org, May 11, 2016 By: Alejandro Davila Fragoso A dumping site for fracking fluids long suspected to be leaching into Wolf Creek, a West Virginia waterway with ties to a county’s water supply, has indeed contaminated the creek with multiple chemicals, a new U.S. Geological Survey study has found. The “study demonstrates definitively that […]

Source: http://auburnpub.com, May 11, 2016 By: Mike Dowd A resident at The Commons on St. Anthony health care facility in Auburn has tested positive for Legionnaires’ disease and trace amounts of legionella have been detected in the water system there. According to a news release, a round of testing took place after one resident tested […]

Source: http://khns.org, May 10, 2016 By: Emily Files Extensive testing at the former Haines Tank Farm and Fuel Terminal found widespread fuel-related contamination. Approximately 75,000 cubic yards of soil have contaminants that exceed environmental standards. The problem is decades old, from the time that the Haines-Fairbanks pipeline operated with little environmental oversight in the 1950s and […]

Source: http://www.sentinelsource.com, May 10, 2016 By: Matt Nanci Four area businesses may use or have used the same type of chemicals responsible for contaminating drinking water in the Merrimack area, the N.H. Department of Environmental Services said. New Hampshire Ball Bearings Inc. in Peterborough, Central Plating of New Hampshire Inc. in Walpole, and Bean Fiber […]