Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/, December 21, 2020 Confusing language in a policy issued by an excess insurer puts the carrier on the hook for up to $5 million in clean-up costs after a policyholders’ tanker truck overturned and spilled its load of fuel, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday. The appellate panel reversed a decision by […]

Source: https://www.constructionexec.com/, December 15, 2020 By: Joseph Reynolds New faulty workmanship coverage forms have emerged to potentially address the “your work” exposure found in most contractors professional liability (CPrL) policies. Once offered by only a single carrier, several insurers have recently entered the marketplace to cover the cost to repair or replace faulty work or […]

Source: https://www.northjersey.com/, December 18, 2020 By: Scott Fallon Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration filed lawsuits Friday against a number of companies that allegedly contaminated drinking water supplies in six towns throughout the state including ones in Morris and Sussex Counties. The lawsuits are the latest in a series of actions taken by Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and […]

Source: https://www.fosters.com/, December 19, 2020 By: Jeff McMenemy Former state Rep. Mindi Messmer believes residents who live near the Coakley Landfill Superfund site should be concerned by detections of another PFAS contaminant in private wells. “It is concerning because once again we have people exposed to a chemical that we have no enforceable standards for,” Messmer […]

Source: https://riverheadlocal.com/, December 17, 2020 By: Denise Civiletti Tests on drinking water from 95 residential wells in Manorville just south of the former Grumman manufacturing plant have detected PFOS, PFOA and a host of other contaminants — with some levels exceeding state and federal drinking water standards. The contaminants included various volatile organic compounds — […]

Source: https://patch.com/, December 18, 2020 By: Eric Kiefer New Jersey state officials launched seven new environmental lawsuits on Friday, including a suit involving the site of a former dry-cleaning business in Livingston. The seven unrelated complaints address a broad array of environmental harms linked to the “unlawful discharge and storage of hazardous chemicals,” Attorney General […]

Source: https://www.usnews.com/, December 16, 2020 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has filed a lawsuit seeking millions of dollars from the state of Delaware for costs associated with the clean-up of lead-contaminated material at Fort DuPont State Park. The lawsuit filed Wednesday claims the federal government is owed some $3.8 million for cleaning up lead-contaminated material more than […]

Source: https://www.wortfm.org/, December 16, 2020 The Environmental Protection Agency advises against drinking water that contains more than 70 parts per trillion of PFAS, a family of hazardous chemicals that are sometimes called forever chemicals. Yesterday, the City of Madison announced new test results at the Dane County Airport finding PFAS contamination at levels thousands of times […]

Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/, December 16, 2020 By: Scott Bauer Prevention of future pollution from forever chemicals known as PFAS, while also developing ways to reduce the use of the chemicals, are among the recommendations included in a Wisconsin action plan released Wednesday by Gov. Tony Evers’ administration after a year of study. Nearly 20 state agencies, […]

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/, December 17, 2020 Imagine that a small group of people coordinated the intentional manufacture and release of a lethal poison – and imagine they knew this poison had special properties that meant, once released into the world, it would be inevitable that it would make its way into the blood of virtually every […]

Source: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/, December 15, 2020 By: Jennifer Van Grove Following extensive litigation and investigation, Lockheed Martin is expected to soon begin work on a state-ordered — and court-mandated — environmental remediation project meant to clean up a portion of San Diego Bay’s Harbor Island East Basin that was subject to decades of pollution. Last week, […]

Source: https://news.azpm.org/, December 11, 2020 By: Ariana Brocious Close to 20 backup groundwater wells for the city of Tucson have been contaminated by a group of man-made chemicals known as PFAS, which stands for perfluorinated alkyl substances. Now, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is working to clean up and limit the spread of the […]