Source: http://mv-voice.com, January 28, 2014 By: Daniel DeBolt Circuit board manufacturer CTS Printex to pay for TCE contamination in Mountain View Nearly 30 years after circuit board manufacturer CTS Printex left Mountain View for Fremont, the company has agreed to pay $3 million for a toxic cleanup on Sierra Vista Avenue. The settlement was reached […]

Source: USAToday.com, January 29, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Tammy Miser and Katherine Rodriguez share a heartbreaking bond. They’ve each lost a loved one — a brother, a father — to chemical accidents a decade ago that burned at least 80% of the men’s bodies. The U.S. government, after investigating the tragedies in Indiana and Texas, […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, January 27, 2014 By: Stephanie K. Jones The oil drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been blamed – rightly or wrongly – for various hazards ranging from earthquakes to water pollution. While the technique has generated a lot of media attention, so far there has not been much in the […]

Source: http://www.scmp.com, January 28, 2014 By: Ernest Kao Report of pollution at Ta Kwu Ling dump was initially withheld by government A landfill contractor is being taken to court, accused of allowing pollution to leak into the city’s waterways. The leak at the Ta Kwu Ling landfill in the northeast New Territories was first reported […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 21, 2014 By: David A. Baay, Lee C. Davis, Jennifer Wheatley Fletcher, Juan C. Garcia, Daniel Johnson and Kent W. Collier, Sutjherland Asbill & Brennan LLP On January 17, 2014, the Supreme Court of Texas rejected a commercial general liability (“CGL”) insurer’s attempt to invoke the “contractual liability” exclusion to deny coverage […]

Source: Time Record (Fort Smith, AR), January 25, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Whirlpool Corp. submitted to the state Friday what it calls a revised work plan to address contamination in soil and groundwater at its dormant Fort Smith plant. The latest submission is a requirement of a long-term cleanup plan, called a Final Remedial Action […]

Read here about an order for all tanks to be removed by the company involved in the West Virginia chemical spill.

Source: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com, January 25, 2014 By: Mike Owen For half a century, toxic and combustible materials have been stored in a couple of dozen storage tanks on the banks of the Chattahoochee River. The tank farm — located near popular venues such as the National Civil War Naval Museum, the South Commons softball complex, A.J. […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, January 25, 2014 By: John S. Hausman The former Zephyr Oil site is finally on the verge of getting cleaned up after decades of petroleum pollution followed by more decades of snail’s-pace contaminant control. It’s been a long time coming. A vital first step – long needed, never attempted – has finally been […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 20, 2014 By: Carl A. Salisbury, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Construction projects are always the subject of contracts among owners and contractors. Does an exclusion in the standard Comprehensive General Liability insurance policy that precludes coverage for “liabilities assumed under contract” apply to construction contracts? According to a recent, and long-awaited, decision […]

Source: Legal Monitor Worldwide, January 23, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com One of the largest environmental disasters in recent American history happened three days before Christmas in 2008, when more than 1 billion gallons of coal ash slurry spilled from a coal plant in Tennessee into a nearby river. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) plant at […]

Source: Register-Herald (Beckley, WV), January 23, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Each day, it seems a new chapter is written in the story of Freedom Industries and its leak into the Elk River that tainted water for about 300,000 West Virginians. On Tuesday, Freedom President Gary Southern told state officials that 300 gallons of a second […]