Source: http://mtpr.org, February 22, 2016 By: Edward O’Brien Coal ash ponds have leaked contaminants into ground and surface water surrounding eastern Montana’s Colstrip plant for decades. Three environmental groups have sued the state of Montana for dragging its heels on the clean up effort. Coal ash is the hazardous material left over after coal is […]

Source: http://www.sanduskyregister.com, February 17, 2016 By: Andy Ouriel Area officials ordered a site analysis at a former sandwich shop, eating away at nearby property values and community morale for many years. Together people representing Erie County and Castalia recently applied for state money to remove underground storage tanks at 604 S. Washington St., where Ohio […]

Source: http://swtimes.com, February 22, 2016 By: Chad Hunter Whirlpool’s annual report to the state indicates that contamination cleanup efforts in and around the company’s shuttered Fort Smith plant reduced toxic concentration levels between 53 percent to 83 percent in targeted areas. A portion of Whirlpool Corp.’s sprawling property on Jenny Lind Road has been contaminated […]

Source: The Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, MT), February 16, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 9 sued Michael’s Convenience Stores Inc., seeking damages for an alleged 10,000 gallons of gasoline that leaked from a Kalispell gas station in 2007. The civil suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Missoula, alleges […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, February 19, 2016 By: David M. Governo, Bryna Rosen Misiura, J.D. The incredible complexity and variety of environmental claims challenge the most seasoned claims professionals. Simply interpreting the policy and determining the actual facts are tasks fraught with obstacles that can lead to a bad faith claim. How can you turn the chaos […]

Source: http://news.stanford.edu, February 18, 2016 By: Mark Shwartz Faulty, shallow wells can leak oil and natural gas into underground drinking-water supplies, Stanford Professor Rob Jackson finds. Does living near an oil or natural gas well affect your drinking water? “The answer to the question is usually ‘no,’ but there are exceptions,” according to Rob Jackson, a […]

Source: http://www.cspnet.com, http://www.cspnet.com, February 17, 2016 Court grants request for preliminary injunction SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against the owner of a Lake County gas station over a gasoline leak that caused soil and groundwater contamination and vapors to enter nearby residents’ homes. Madigan’s filed the complaint in […]

Source: http://www.environmentalleader.com, February 17, 2016 By: Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Honeywell and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics must pay to clean up a toxic chemical found in a New York village’s drinking water. The Associated Press reports that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation sent a letter to the two industrial companies demanding that they finance a […]

Source: http://amestrib.com, February 16, 2016 BY; Sarina Rhinehart Clean-up has begun on the former Dairy Queen site in Nevada, where a leaking underground gasoline tank has contaminated soil and groundwater in the area. The building, at 436 E. Lincoln Way, had been a Kerr-McGee Service Station from 1955-82, and the Story County Board of Supervisors […]

Source: http://www.journalnow.com, February 17, 2016 By: Richard Craver A local aircraft maintenance company denies most claims in a lawsuit filed by Piedmont Advantage Credit Union for damages related to “significant environmental contamination” to a nearby building it owns. The credit union filed the lawsuit against Piedmont Hawthorne Aviation LLC, doing business as Landmark Aviation. The […]

Source: http://www.scpr.org, February 17, 2016 By: Elizabeth Aguilera After years of silence, Gov. Jerry Brown Wednesday asked California state lawmakers to spend nearly $177 million for expedited testing and cleanup of lead contamination in communities around the former Exide plant in Vernon. “This Exide battery recycling facility has been a problem for a very long […]

By: Jefferey S. Lejfer, CPCU Chief Executive Officer New Day Underwriting Managers LLC I’ve had the good fortune to be in the property and casualty industry for over 40 years. In that time while I’ve had a limited number of employers I’ve had the experiences of many different positions. Our endeavor at New Day started […]