Source: https://insideclimatenews.org/, April 5, 2021 By: Phil McKenna, James Bruggers The Chemours Louisville Works emits a chemical feedstock and a separate gas byproduct that do more damage to the climate than 750,000 passenger vehicles, and far more than the Environmental Protection Agency’s main industrial greenhouse gas inventory indicates. Chemours’ most harmful climate super-pollutant is the […]

Source: https://www.axios.com/, April 3, 2021 A worsening series of breaches in a 800-million-gallon holding pool at the Piney Point industrial site prompted Manatee County to evacuate residents within about a mile of the plant tonight. The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Highway Patrol closed off roads in the evacuation zone around U.S. 41 in Palmetto, per […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, April 2, 2021 By: Lewis Kendall On a bitterly cold afternoon earlier this year, the Haw River was running high – its water a bright ochre thanks to heavy rainfall and snow melt. Most of the water flowed south, where it would eventually connect with Jordan Lake and the rest of the Cape […]

Source: https://www.live5news.com/, April 1, 2021 By: Paola Tristan Arruda The clean-up process for an oil leak at a gas station is still underway nearly three years after it happened. In August of 2018, officials from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control said petroleum was found on Savannah Highway. The leak originated from the piping […]

Source: https://www.bayjournal.com/, April 1, 2021 By: Timothy B. Wheeler The owners of the closed Luke paper mill in Western Maryland have agreed to clean up toxic pollution that has been seeping into the Potomac River and pay a $650,000 penalty, state officials and environmental groups announced Thursday. Verso Luke LLC and its parent company, Verso […]

Source: https://www.ktoo.org/, April 1, 2021 By: Claire Stremple Contractors plan to break ground on a multimillion dollar airport project in Gustavus  this month. But newly discovered toxic chemicals at the site make the state-run project more complicated, and some residents don’t think the environmental oversight goes far enough to keep them safe. The upgrade at […]

Source: https://www.seattlepi.com/, April 1, 2021 An Everett plastic film manufacturer will pay more than $222,000 to settle fines for two oil spills that polluted a storm water pond and tainted local wildlife near an Everett creek. In July 2018, an Achilles USA employee dropped a moving tote with lubricating oil at the company’s south Everett […]

Source: https://www.jdnews.com/, March 31, 2021 By: Gareth McGrath North Carolina regulators fined The Chemours Co. nearly $200,000 on Wednesday for violations related to the company’s failure to properly construct and install water treatment measures at its Fayetteville Works plant on the Cape Fear River. Chemours was required to install the treatment systems as part of […]

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 […]