Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, July 6, 2021 By: Kate Abnett Taxpayers are too often being forced to pay to clean up environmental damage while the companies responsible dodge the costs, the European Court of Auditors said on Monday. The European Union’s executive Commission will propose rules this year to force companies to find and fix risks to […]

Source: The Washington Post, June 30, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Shortly after 3:30 a.m. on Aug. 24, 1992, meteorologist Bryan Norcross grabbed his notebook and stepped off the set of WTVJ, Miami’s NBC affiliate, to head for the safest place in the station. “When you see us move, and you’re watching us, we want you […]

Source: https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/, June 30, 2021 By: Mike Koshmrl Jackson Hole Airport is joining a consolidated lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of South Carolina that charges aviation firefighting foam manufacturers with knowingly keeping quiet the health hazard of one of their product’s chemical constituents: polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. To date there are over 500 plaintiffs […]

Source: https://denver.cbslocal.com/, July 1, 2021 By: Kati Weiss Residents in the city just a short ride north up the interstate from Denver are fed up, saying for 15 years, the owner of the Thornton Shopping Center has failed to clean up toxic dry cleaning chemicals that are seeping into nearby neighborhoods. They feel the city […]

Source: https://napavalleyregister.com/, June 29, 2021 By: Flint Ellsworth One particular issue with UVDS’s operation of Clover Flat Landfill (CFL) that should be of concern to everyone is that of PFAS. PFAS (“forever chemicals”) are a class of man-made chemicals that are highly resistant to breaking down. They accumulate in the body over time and are […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, June 29, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ The president of the Champlain South Towers condo association told residents in April their building was in desperate disrepair and urged them to pay the $15 million in assessments needed to fix structural problems, in a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The […]

Source: https://www.advisen.com/, Associated Press, June 24, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Efforts to clean up a leaky reservoir that dumped tens of millions of gallons of potentially hazardous gypsum wastewater into Tampa Bay must be overseen by a federal judge to guard against continued mismanagement, environmental groups claimed in a lawsuit filed Thursday. More than 215 […]

Source: Miami Herald, June 24, 2021 Posted on:https://www.advisen.com/ Search and rescue teams continued the delicate work of picking through a mountain of rubble in Surfside on Thursday afternoon, looking for even the faintest signs of life that might be buried inside the two-story-high remains of the partial collapse of the 12-story oceanfront building, Champlain Towers […]

Source: https://www-foxbusiness-com, June 21, 2021 By: Brittany De Lea A hacker attempted to taint the drinking water in the San Francisco area at the beginning of the year, a disturbing report that recently came to light revealed. The hacker obtained a former employee’s TeamViewer credentials to log on and delete programs to treat drinking water, according to […]

Source: Associated Press, June 22, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ The Wisconsin Assembly planned to vote Tuesday on a bill that would create a new $10 million grant program to help communities clean up contamination from forever chemicals known as PFAS but would ban them from suing those responsible for the pollution. The Republican-backed measure has […]

Source: Associated Press, June 17, 2021 Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/ Citgo Petroleum Corp. of Houston has agreed to pay $19.7 million for environmental damage from a 2006 spill at a Louisiana refinery, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday. The agreement settles both state and federal environmental claims from the 2.2-million-gallon (8.3- million-liter) spill at the […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, June 17, 2021 Preliminary findings of an independent investigation into the deadly collapse of a Mexico City metro rail line last month showed the accident was caused by a structural fault, a senior city official said on Wednesday. Jesus Esteva, head of Mexico City’s public works department, said the probe by Norwegian firm […]