Source: https://www.danvillesanramon.com/, September 18, 2022 California Attorney General Rob Bonta and five county district attorneys on Friday announced an $8 million settlement with Safeway regarding alleged violations of environmental laws at its 71 gas stations across the state, including in the Tri-Valley. The settlement, which along with the attorney general included the district attorneys of […]

Source: https://www.bizjournals.com/, September 8, 2022 By: Tim Walsh With the evolution from the design-bid-build approach to construction to more collaborative delivery models (integrated project delivery, design-build, delegated design, design-assist), all or portions of the risk for negligent act, errors or omissions in design have shifted to the construction manager and its subcontractors. General liability policies […]

Source: https://www.law.com/, September 12, 2022 By: Christopher J. Tellner Here we are again. When last writing on this topic in 2018, courts within the commonwealth consistently ruled that faulty workmanship and negligent construction do not rise to the level of an “occurrence” in commercial general liabilities (CGL) policies. That is, until faulty workmanship becomes an […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, August 26, 2022 By: Michael A. Walsh, Parsons McEntire McCleary PLLC In October 2021, EPA released the PFAS Strategic Roadmap[1] laying out an overall approach to addressing PFAS. True to its word and on the heels of controversial June 2022 Interim and Final Health Advisories,[2] the EPA has published a Proposed Rule entitled “Designation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and […]

Source: https://news.northwestern.edu/, August 18, 2022 By: Amanda Morris PFAS, a group of manufactured chemicals commonly used since the 1940s, are called “forever chemicals” for a reason. Bacteria can’t eat them; fire can’t incinerate them; and water can’t dilute them. And, if these toxic chemicals are buried, they leach into surrounding soil, becoming a persistent problem […]

Source: https://www.gwttllc.com/ What is PFOA / PFOS? Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOS) and Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA)  are part of  large family of chemicals called perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs). The U.S. EPA has established health advisories for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water and has established the health advisory levels at 70 parts per trillion. Both PFOA and PFOS have been […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, May 23, 2019 By: Lauren Zanolli What are PFAS? PFAS, short for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of at least 4,700 synthetic chemicals that have been in commercial production since the 1940s to make surfaces resist stains, water and grease. Read more.

Source: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/, March 3, 2021 A federal judge ordered Exxon Mobil to pay a $14.25 million civil penalty Tuesday in an 11-year-old lawsuit alleging it violated the Clean Air Act for eight years at its flagship Baytown, Texas, refinery. In setting the penalty, which would go to the U.S. Treasury, U.S. District Judge David Hittner […]

Source: https://6abc.com, August 29, 2022 By: Trish Hartman Officials in one Mercer County, New Jersey community say four cases of Legionnaires’ disease were reported in less than a year. One of those cases was fatal. The state’s Department of Health and Department of Environmental Protection is looking into the situation in Hamilton Township. Read more.

Source: https://www.lexology.com/, August 25, 2022 By: Saxe Doerberger & Vita, P.C. In the July 5, 2022, case of Indian Harbor Ins. Co. v. Houston Casualty Co., the United States District Court for Colorado addressed the issue of whether damage to defectively installed balconies is considered “property damage” under Colorado law, requiring payment by a commercial general […]

Source: https://apnews.com/, August 26, 2022 By: Matthew Daly The Environmental Protection Agency moved Friday to designate two “forever chemicals” used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, a step that would clear the way for quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems. Designation as a hazardous […]

Source: https://insideclimatenews.org/, August 26, 2022 By: Daelin Brown Mary Dibbons had never heard of Peck Iron and  Metal, an abandoned scrap yard located about a half-mile from the Cradock neighborhood where she’s lived her entire life. And she’s not sure what a Superfund site is. But she does know she shouldn’t eat fish from the […]