Source: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com, February 2, 2014 By: Paul Gottlieb The process leading to cleanup of the abandoned Peninsula Plywood mill site on the city’s waterfront is moving faster than anticipated. The prime but polluted 19-acre site could undergo cleanup in 2015 rather than 2017, as projected earlier by the state Department of Ecology, port Director of […]

Source: http://wislawjournal.com, January 14, 2014 By: Wisconsin Law Journal Staff Wisconsin Court of Appeals Civil Insurance — pollution exclusions This is an insurance coverage dispute concerning a pollution exclusion commonly found in commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies. Tina and Frederick Preisler filed suit against Kuettel’s Septic Service, LLC; 4 D-K Farm; Duke, Cheryl, Dale, […]

Source: The Salem News (MA), February 1, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owner of the former Crease and Cook Tannery Superfund site in Danvers has agreed to pay nearly $400,000 to settle allegations that he failed to address contamination on the property. The attorney general’s office announced yesterday that as part of a consent judgment, […]

Source: Time-News (Burlington, NC), February 1, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Burlington will be issued a violation notice and could face a civil penalty from the N.C. Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Water Resources for the 3.5-million-gallon leak of untreated wastewater into the Haw River earlier this week. A break in the East Burlington Wastewater […]

Read here about a landfill in Illinois that has been ordered to take steps to prevent future leaks.

Source: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX), February 2, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A fire at the tire recycling plant in August 2012 discharged waste from thousands of pounds of tires and crumb rubber and thousands of gallons of oil into the soil, public records show. But the Tire Recycling & Processing plant at the city’s […]

Source: Houston Chronicle, February 2, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com At the end of the night, after officials from the Environmental Protection Agency laid out options for cleaning up dioxin contamination of the San Jacinto River north of the Interstate 10 bridge, residents seemed nearly unanimous: haul all of the polluted sediment away, once and for […]

Source: The Day (New London, CT), February 3, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An effort has begun on three separate fronts to give the state more control over waste products from hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” that gas exploration companies may want to transport, dispose of or process in Connecticut. The state Department of Energy […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, February 4, 2014 By: Michael P. Voelker While brokers and carriers are increasing their policy counts, they face an uphill battle to grow premium volume. Among the most interesting developments in environmental liability coverage is that the recovering economy is turning businesses from window-shoppers into buyers. According to Marsh’s analysis of the environmental […]

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com, February 4, 2014 By: Bruce Henderson Duke Energy said Monday that 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash and up to 27 million gallons of water were released from a pond at its retired power plant in Eden into the Dan River, and were still flowing. Duke said a 48-inch stormwater pipe beneath […]

Source: EHS Today, February 1, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com In the coming months, OSHA will hold public hearings on one of its most far-reaching new regulations in recent years. OSHA’s proposed silica rule would affect more than 2 million workers in construction, oil and gas exploration, manufacturing and any work that involves silica-containing materials such […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, January 31, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Kay & Kay Contr. 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 23587 (6th Cir. Nov. 19, 2013) This action arose out of a commercial general liability (“CGL”) policy issued by Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (“Liberty Mutual”) to MW Builders, Inc. (“MW […]