Source: Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT), February 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Utah’s Water Quality Board has approved the $5.35 million Willard Bay Settlement Agreement between the Division of Water Quality, Division of Parks and Recreation and Chevron Pipe Line Co. That approval finalizes an agreement requiring Chevron to pay a $350,000 civil penalty to DWQ, $550,000 […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), February 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Attorneys have moved beyond Freedom Industries in a new batch of lawsuits tied to last month’s Elk River chemical spill. In fact, the company’s name doesn’t appear at all in some of the recent lawsuits filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court. Four lawsuits filed […]

Source: Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland), January 30, 2014 Posted on: http://jlttnews3.advisen.com A CONTRACTOR who admitted breaching Health and Safety legislation while removing asbestos panels from a block of flats has been fined a total of 8,000 pounds. Piperhill Construction Ltd had been carrying out refurbishment work on the stairwells of Kilbroney House in the Cregagh […]

Source: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA), January 30, 2014 Posted on: http://jlttnews3.advisen.com Los Angeles is joining with nine major cities in an ambitious effort to cut greenhouse gases by improving efficiencies that reduce pollution in buildings, it was announced Wednesday. Mayor Eric Garcetti, in a conference call with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Institute […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, January 28, 2014 By: Richard Korman A state court in Texas restored some order to U.S. contractors’ general liability insurance, limiting insurers’ efforts to narrow what is considered an “occurrence” covered under a policy. Insurers have been trying to eliminate coverage for defects in the contractor’s own work. The issue has come up […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, January 30, 2014 By: John Raby The company behind a chemical spill that contaminated the water supply of 300,000 people now estimates some 10,000 gallons of chemicals leaked, up from an earlier figure of 7,500 gallons, state regulators said Monday. West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection released the new figure from Freedom Industries […]

Source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com, January 28, 2014 High levels of arsenic trioxide have been found in 31 cleanup workers at Giant Mine in Yellowknife but it’s not clear how employees were exposed to the highly toxic substance. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development is overseeing the massive cleanup at the former gold mine. There are 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust stored […]

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 […]