Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, February 1, 2016 By: Phil Gusman With demand high and customers becoming more educated on Environmental cover, expertise becomes increasingly valuable in a market that’s keeping a watchful eye on claims. Once in the realm of niche coverages requiring a lot of education and persuasion to get buyers interested, Environmental policies are now […]

Source: https://bangordailynews.com, February 4, 2016 By: Dawn Gagnon ORRINGTON, Maine — Nearly 60 rail cars, each carrying approximately 98 tons of mercury-contaminated soil, were hauled away from Orrington in December as part of the multimillion-dollar environmental cleanup at the former HoltraChem Manufacturing Co. site. The contaminated dirt dug up on the banks of the Penobscot […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, February 4, 2016 By: Lisa Marie Segarra One group in Montclair is hoping to clean up the township by looking beneath its surface. In response to a New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection list of environmentally contaminated sites that includes 70 areas in the township, the Montclair Environmental Commission intends to take action. […]

Source: http://ecowatch.com, February 4, 2016 By: Laurel Peltier The headline flew around the globe like wild fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no widespread impact on drinking water. But if you’ve had your ear to the ground in fracking communities, something didn’t […]

Source: http://www.freep.com, February 2, 2016 By: John Wisely and Jennifer Dixon Southfield lawyer Geoffrey Fieger filed a $100-million lawsuit today against McLaren Flint Hospital and the State of Michigan, saying they did nothing to combat an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that killed at least one person during the Flint water crisis. Fieger represents four Genesee County […]

Source: http://amestrib.com, February 2, 2016 By: Sarina Rhinehart The Story County Board of Supervisors are calling for swifter action on a leaking underground gasoline tank in Nevada that has contaminated soil and groundwater at the former Dairy Queen building and neighboring properties. The leaking tank sits under the unoccupied building on Lincoln Way, which was […]

Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca, February 3, 2016 By: Genevieve Leigh Last week, Seattle, Washington became the latest addition to the list of cities filing lawsuits against multinational corporation Monsanto, joining San Diego, San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley in California, along with Spokane, Washington. These efforts, led by San Diego-based law firm Gomez Trial Attorneys, aim to extract […]

Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com, February2 , 2016 BY: Pamela Wood A group of state lawmakers wants to require big poultry companies to be responsible for the manure from their chickens that are raised on family farms — forcing a change in practice that the industry has opposed. The Poultry Litter Requirement Act has the backing of top […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, February 1, 2016 By: Marcel Riciardelli Most tenants assume their rented home will be a safe environment. But what if they couldn’t really breathe easily in their home because the air was contaminated? When we think of environmental risk, we think of the traditional causes — fires, explosions, leaking tanks or pipelines, and […]

Source: http://www.contracostatimes.com, February 1, 2016 By: Sarah Tan After years of lying abandoned and contaminated, Point Molate is one step closer to being clean. After an $11 million project removed over 200,000 tons of soil and six million gallons of contaminated water from the former U.S. Navy fuel storage depot there, part of the 320-acre […]

Source: http://theadvocate.com, February 1, 2016 By: Richard Burgess A state lawsuit filed Monday seeks to force the cleanup of an old railroad yard along the Evangeline Thruway near downtown, raising concerns about decades-old contamination possibly threatening Lafayette’s water supply. The state Department of Environmental Quality has long known about the contaminated site, which it has […]

Source: https://www.earthworksaction.org, January 29, 2016 By: Bonnie Gestring It was good news all around today for the millions of families that live near polluted industrial sites, and the American taxpayers who have footed the cleanup bill all too often. Today, the Court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop letting polluters off the hook […]