Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 14, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced a settlement with PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, L.P. (PCS Nitrogen), to remedy hazardous waste issues at its former fertilizer manufacturing facility in Geismar, Louisiana. This settlement resolves alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and […]

Source: https://www.mynbc5.com/, July 11, 2022 By: John Hawks A paving project on Route 11 in Springfield called the roadway to be shut for several hours on Monday after a tar spill caused an estimated 1,500 gallons of chemicals to spill out of a construction vehicle. Officials were called to the scene after receiving word that […]

Source: https://www.msn.com/ By: Howard Blume No one was injured. Two district vehicles parked under the shady concourse were destroyed. But the major structural failure triggered safety inspections that uncovered serious defects that prompted the shutdown of the 20-year-old campus — and led the school district to conclude that its main three-story building, with 110 classrooms, […]

Source: https://www.westernmassnews.com/, July 7, 2022 By: Mary Wilson Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey has sued 13 manufacturers of toxic PFAS chemicals used in firefighting foam. They said the foam has led to the contamination of drinking water sources in communities across the state, including Westfield. Kristen Mello welcomes health officials onto her Westfield property… “To […]

Source: https://www.nhbr.com/, July 7, 2022 By: Bob Sanders Just as the state reached a $500,000 settlement with Georgia Pacific to reimburse it for its investigation of a Superfund site at the former Brown Paper Company mill in Berlin, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is about to renew its investigation of a contaminated site Wilton – […]

Source: https://constructionexec.com/, July 5, 2022 By: Mark D. Shifton Ensuring appropriate insurance coverage for large construction projects is an important and complicated process. While insurance will never be able to prevent potentially ruinous events such as catastrophic construction accidents or the discovery of latent construction defects long after substantial completion, the right insurance coverage can […]

Source: https://www.fox26houston.com/, July 5, 2022 Officials in the city of Houston and Harris County are taking action against Union Pacific regarding the contamination of Houston’s Fifth Ward, according to a statement. The statement says that Harris County Attorney Christian D Menefee, and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will submit notices of intent to sue pursuant to the federal Resource Conservation and […]

Source: https://www.kcur.org/, July 6, 2022 By: Kavahn Mansouri Workers at a manure digester in northwest Iowa did not act on signs of a potential leak before thousands of gallons of wastewater poured into nearby waterways, according to documents from the state’s environmental regulator. In early February, a manure digester owned and operated by Colorado-based biofuel […]

Source: https://www.mass.gov/, June 29, 2022 A Shrewsbury resident has agreed to pay $120,000 to reimburse the state for the cost of responding to a 2016 explosion and fire caused when his contractor demolished a backyard shed at his residential property, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today. The explosion and fire released hazardous chemicals and fumes, […]

Source: https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/, June 24, 2022 By: Jared Strong A large Iowa Falls egg-laying chicken operation improperly stored hundreds of thousands of gallons of liquid manure that had the potential to leak into a nearby creek that feeds the Iowa River, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The Opal Foods facility is located about […]

Source: https://www.cnn.com/, June 24, 2022 By: Denise Royal and Elizabeth Wolfe On the eve of the one-year anniversary of a catastrophic condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, a judge approved an approximately $1 billion settlement for those impacted by the disaster that killed 98 people, an attorney for the plaintiffs confirmed Thursday. The judge’s decision finalizes […]

Source: https://www.jdsupra.com/, June 22, 2022 The Mississippi Court of Appeals addressed in a May 31st opinion a dispute over responsibility for environmental contamination between a lessor and a lessee. See Biloxi Dock & Ice, LLC v. Back Bay Fuel and Ice, LLC, 2022 WL 1743238. The dispute was complicated by the fact that a definitive source of […]