By: Joel T. Bowers, Jeffrey S. Longsworth and Tammy L. Helminski, Barnes & Thornburg LLP Emerging environmental risks that are uncertain and evolving require special considerations during corporate transactions. One good example of this in today’s world is dealing with risks associated with PFAS, a shorthand way of referring to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. This […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com/, March 25, 2021 A settlement that is pending approval from a federal judge would require the former owner of a shuttered chemical plant in Maine to spend more than $180 million to clean up mercury contamination. The settlement concerns the site of the HoltraChem Manufacturing plant on the Penobscot River that has been […]

Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/, March 26, 2021 By: Jim Sams Carriers that insured Freightliner Corp. before it was purchased by Daimler-Benz AG in 1981 — even those that entered into fronting agreements that transferred liability back to the insured — have to contribute to the defense of claims related to a Superfund site and asbestos injuries, the Oregon […]

Source: https://www.daytondailynews.com/, March 26, 2021 By: Ismail Turay Jr. The state of Ohio continues to monitor soil and groundwater at a Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority facility seven months after an underground storage tank leaked more than 6,000 gallons of diesel fuel. The Ohio Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations ― or BUSTR ― also […]

Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/, March 26, 2021 We have previously written about the impact to waste management companies from ever-increasing scrutiny over PFAS issues in the media and scientific community, at the government level, and within litigation circles. A very recent notice out of Minnesota that almost every closed landfill in the state of Minnesota has detectable levels of PFAS, with […]

Source: https://www.recordonline.com/, March 29, 2021 By: Chris McKenna Legoland New York must pay a $346,000 state fine for three dozen environmental violations under an agreement reached Friday as the $500 million theme park prepares to open within weeks. The fine was the third and largest the Department of Environmental Conservation has levied during three years […]

Source: https://apnews.com/, March 23, 2021 A settlement that is pending approval from a federal judge would require the former owner of a shuttered chemical plant in Maine to spend more than $180 million to clean up mercury contamination. The settlement concerns the site of the HoltraChem Manufacturing plant on the Penobscot River that has been […]

Source: https://stateimpact.npr.org/, March 23, 2021 By: Jon Hurdle A fight over plans to build houses on a heavily contaminated industrial site in Chester County appears to be nowhere near resolution more than 15 years after the land was purchased by the developer. Any prospect that the shuttered Bishop Tube site in East Whiteland Township could […]

Source: https://www.natlawreview.com/, March 23, 2021 PFAS is the environmental issue manufacturers across many sectors need to pay attention to now. PFAS is an acronym for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. It is a family of chemicals used in many applications, but they are getting a lot of attention now because of potential negative environmental impacts. That attention is […]

Source: https://www.nrdc.org/, March 19, 2021 By: Nancy Marks Today, Maine People’s Alliance (MPA), NRDC, and Mallinckrodt US LLC filed a proposed consent decree to settle litigation over mercury contamination in the Penobscot River estuary. This settlement, once reviewed and approved by the court, would conclude more than two decades of litigation and court-ordered studies of […]

Source: https://www.mprnews.org/, March 18, 2021 By: Kirsti Marohn The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says contamination from PFAS — so-called “forever chemicals” — has been detected in groundwater at nearly 60 closed landfills, at amounts higher than the state’s acceptable levels for safe drinking water. Fifteen of the closed, mostly unlined landfills have PFAS contamination at […]

Source: https://www.startribune.com/, March 18, 2021 By: Jennifer Bjorhus Dozens of closed dumps are leaking high levels of the toxic man-made PFAS “forever chemicals” into groundwater around Minnesota, and pollution regulators want more money to determine the full scope of the problem. Groundwater at one landfill, near the Iowa border, shows PFAS contamination more than 1,000 […]