Source: Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), January 12, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com There’s been little heat so far in Kentucky over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique of drilling for oil and natural gas that has caused division elsewhere in the country, but now the controversy has gushed up here. The potential to develop a vast underground […]

Source: http://www.courierpress.com, January 10, 2015 By: Thomas B. Langhorne Dan Stocks doesn’t want to talk about the toxic mess his company left at Miller Plating & Metal Finishing or the fact that taxpayers footed the $1.4 million bill for the cleanup. Stocks did not respond to telephone, text and Facebook messages seeking comment about the […]

Source: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com, January 7, 2015 By: Paul Gottlieb Port of Port Angeles commissioners are suing insurance carriers over three environmental cleanup projects that will cost tens of millions of dollars to complete. Commissioners Jim Hallett, John Calhoun and Colleen McAleer voted Tuesday to sue the carriers over the projects, in which the port has been […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, January 11, 2015 By: James M. O’Neill DuPont plans to create a spinoff company that would take on the environmental liability for about 190 contaminated sites across the country, including DuPont’s former munitions facility in Pompton Lakes, one of its most costly cleanup sites. The change is not expected to slow progress on […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, January 8, 2015 By: Andrew Zajac and Mark Drajem A coalition of advocacy groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for public access to information on toxic chemicals released by the energy industry through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other forms of oil and gas drilling. Fracking involves the injection of water, chemicals […]

Source: http://www.natlawreview.com, January 8, 2015 On December 30, 2014, the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided two cases in which the central issue was whether the substance responsible for the alleged property damage constitutes a “pollutant” sufficient to invoke pollution exclusions in relevant insurance policies. In Preisler v. General Casualty Ins. Co., et al., 2014 WI 135, and Wilson […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 17, 2014 By: Amy B. Briggs, Donna M. Carlton, David B. Killalea , Stephen T. Raptis, Robert H. Shulman and Susan P. White, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Why it matters A New York federal court recently ruled that the discharge of ammonia at a manufacturing plant – causing a facility shutdown […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 17, 2014 By: Donna M. Carlton, Amy B. Briggs, David B. Killalea , Stephen T. Raptis, Robert H. Shulman and Susan P. White, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Why it matters A New York appellate court recently decided that an insurance policy’s noncumulation clause limited the amount of coverage available to a […]

Read here about a leak in Ohio at a natural gas fracking well.

Source: http://www.latimes.com, December 22, 2014 By: Kim Christensen and Tony Barboza Exide Technologies officials willfully endangered the health of more than 60 children living near the company’s troubled lead recycling plant in Vernon, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The complaint alleges that Exide officers, directors and managers intentionally […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, January 2, 2015 In early November, a jury found in favor of the policyholder in KeySpan Gas East Corp. v. Munich Reinsurance America Inc. et al., resolving a 17-year-old coverage dispute over pollution cleanup costs for historic manufactured gas plant sites on Long Island. Long Island Lighting Co., which sued the insurers in […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 22, 2014 By: John C. Pitblado, Carlton Fields Jorden Burt A New York statute provides that liability insurers may not deny claims on grounds of late notice, unless they can show they were prejudiced by the delay. The statute applies to policies “issued or delivered” in New York. In October 2014, in Indian Harbor Ins. […]