Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 11, 2013 By: Carson Bowler, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt Governor Kitzhaber signed Senate Bill 814 into law yesterday (June 10), a significant piece of legislation affecting environmental insurance coverage. The Bill, sponsored by Senators Shields and Johnson, is designed to clear up certain questions causing friction between insurance companies and their policyholders. […]

Source: http://www.lexology.comJune 12, 2013 By: Robert S. Sanoff, Foley Hoag LLP In a 78 page decision in the Lower Fox River Superfund case issued last month, the federal court issued an injunction against NCR Corp. and three other PRPs requiring them to perform a $1.5 billion remedy. No company ever wants to receive such an […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 12, 2013 By: Walter J. Andrews, Lon A. Berk, Lawrence J. Bracken II, John C. Eichman, Robert J. Morrow and Curtis Porterfield, Hunton & Williams LLP In Louisiana Generating LLC v. Illinois Union Ins. Co., No. 12-30651 (5th Cir. May 15, 2013), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit […]

Source: The Independent (UK), June 16, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has ordered companies in its most polluting industries to cut emissions by 30 per cent over the next four years. The directive, which will compel firms to improve their pollution control equipment and will fine those responsible […]

Read here about removal of contaminants in soil that could begin later this summer near a Kentucky Superfund site.

Read this article here from the Spring 2013 issue of Zurich’s C&DR Briefing. It is authored by New Day’s partner, J. Kent Holland, J.D. of ConstructionRisk, LLC.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 30, 2013 By: Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP In a coverage dispute based on underlying environmental litigation, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that Illinois Union Insurance Co. must defend Louisiana Generating LLC in an action brought by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. “Big […]

Source: Hood River News, June 11, 2013 By: Ben Mitchell Last week, several environmental groups made good on their promise from earlier this spring to sue BNSF railroad and a handful of coal export companies for allegedly continuing to pollute a litany of Gorge waterways with coal they say is coming from improperly loaded railcars. […]

Source: http://theworldlink.com, June 11, 2013 By: Thomas Moriarty Two environmental groups are suing a South Coast contractor under the federal Clean Water Act. The groups allege the contractor negligently let 1,500 cubic yards of construction debris slide into Coalbank Slough, violating the Clean Water Act. Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition and Coos Waterkeeper filed the suit […]

Source: http://swtimes.com, June 11, 2013 By: Hicham Raache CORRECTION: Mineral oil from an OG&E transformer that fell June 1 leaked into Mill Creek, not Massard Creek in Fort Smith, Jeff Turner, director of Sebastian County Emergency Management, confirmed Tuesday, June 11. Earlier reports misidentified the creek. The effort to clean up the mineral oil that […]

Read here about a state highway contractor in Virginia who has pleaded no contest to illegal dumping.  

Read here about the millions of dollars that New Jersey will receive from several companies to settle the Passaic River pollution case.