Read this article by Spencer Levin of XL Group regarding the potential pollution pitfalls in commercial general liability.

Source: http://wyofile.com, September 2012 By: Gregory Nickerson A collaborative investigation spearheaded by the Investigative News Network revealed that abandoned and polluted properties — known as “brownfields” — continue to mar communities across the United States. INN and their partner organizations evaluate the slow progress being made in the cleanup of brownfields nationwide. WyoFile contributor Gregory […]

Source: http://ecmpostreview.com, September 26, 2012 By: Derrick Knutson The North Branch SnoDrifters club is planning to buy the old Branch City Hall property from North Branch, but that purchase is contingent upon an inspection for possible pollutants. Scott Gillette, the president of the SnoDrifters, said he was informed the site was a former dump, an […]

Source: Muskogee Phoenix (OK), September 27, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A lawsuit alleging the city and two local companies negligently disposed of treated sewer sludge appears to be headed for trial next month. The lawsuit was filed by three families who own property near a site where biosolids from Muskogee’s wastewater treatment plant had been […]

Read here about a Louisiana chemical terminal that is being fined for not alerting authorities quickly enough about chemical releases.

Read here about a dairy farm in Vermont that is being sued for violating pollution laws.

Source: Salem News (MA), September 19, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Salem and Peabody will receive a total of $250,000 from the settlement of an air pollution lawsuit brought against Dominion by two environmental groups, the Conservation Law Foundation and HealthLink. Salem will receive the bulk of the funds, or $225,000, most of which will go […]

Source: Buffalo News, September 20, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The City of Niagara Falls’ effort to avoid facing a new Love Canal lawsuit has been rejected by Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III. In a seven-page opinion this week, Murphy denied the city’s motion seeking dismissal of the allegations that it faced in the […]

Read here about an oil spill on an Iowa river that is being cleaned up.

Source: Wichita Eagle, September 13, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Three-year-old Kalen Perrault has a wracking cough so severe that his mother, Amy Perrault, has to take him to Derby many nights to sleep in the clean air of his grandparents’ house. His father, Iraq veteran Jason Perrault, and mother blame mold in their 2-year-old $184,000 home […]

Source: Hartford Courant, September 13, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Federal environmental regulators have accepted the Navy’s proposal to clean up a large, contaminated site at the submarine base in Groton. The 102-acre section, laced with PCBs, heavy metals, and other remnants of ship-maintenance operations, has been accumulating toxins since before World War II. The area […]

Source: Tampa Tribune, September 16, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Lakeland family who found a landfill in their backyard while trying to build a pool is suing the home’s builder and developer. Brian Dyer found the junk last year, and radar showed it runs from his backyard to underneath his home. The property once was […]