Source: https://www.fox13seattle.com/, July 25, 2024 Ending an eight-year legal battle, chemical giant Monsanto has agreed to a $160-million settlement with Seattle for its part in polluting a river that runs through the heart of the city with toxins that posed a threat to humans, fish and wildlife, the city attorney’s office said Thursday. “We all play a role in […]

Source: https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/, July 24, 2024 By: Terry Gangcuangco</span. Erie Insurance Exchange is not obligated to defend or indemnify a gas station operator accused of contaminating a neighbor’s water source due to a leaking underground storage tank, according to a ruling by the Kentucky 22nd Circuit Court of Appeals. Read more.

Source: https://ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com/, July 23, 2024 By: Guy Burdick On July 17, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released an update on its investigation into a January 2023 explosion and toxic chemical release at the Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies facility in Geismar, Louisiana. A reboiler at the facility exploded, leading to the release […]

Source: https://www.click2houston.com/, July 19, 2024 By: Gage Goulding & Rayan Graham A massive oil sheen is stretching for miles along the Galveston coast in the Gulf of Mexico. The sheen is coming from an offshore drilling platform 12 miles from the sandy beaches of the Bolivar Peninsula, near Crystal Beach. Read more.

Source: https://www.mlive.com/, July 16, 2024 By: Sam Jane Saline’s nearly three-year, $62-million construction project to upgrade its aging wastewater treatment plant recently encountered a $2.3 million problem. The city was informed that low levels of contaminating PFAS were found present in on-site soils. As a result, soil removal costs will more than quadruple from the […]

Source: https://kennedyslaw.com/, February 7, 2024 By: Junaid N. Savani Insurers often include exclusions within their liability policies to prohibit coverage for claims arising out of pollution exposure. The exact wording of the exclusion can differ significantly, but the key issue is whether the underlying allegations fall within the scope of the exclusion. In this regard, […]

Source: https://www.wistv.com/, July 3, 2024 By: Joshua Hamphill On Tuesday, the Southern Environmental Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court against Shaw Industries on behalf of Congaree Riverkeeper due to Shaw’s illegal discharges of PFAS chemicals into the Lower Saluda River. The lawsuit comes after a March notice letter notifying Shaw of SELC’s intent to sue over the […]

Source: https://www.sevendaysvt.com/, June 24, 2024 By: Kevin McCallum A tank full of firefighting chemicals leaked onto the floor of a helicopter hangar at the Vermont National Guard base last week, and some of the toxic material likely reached the Winooski River, officials said on Monday. The fire-suppression material began spreading across the hangar floor shortly […]

Source: https://www.statejournal.com/, June 12, 2024 By: John Raby Classes at a small West Virginia school will be relocated this fall, two years after the town’s contaminated groundwater was added to a national cleanup priority list. Wetzel County Schools Superintendent Cassandra R. Porter announced the move Tuesday for students, faculty and staff at Paden City High […]

Source: https://patch.com/, May 30, 2024 By: Dino Ciliberti The company responsible for a chemical spill last year into the Delaware River that caused concerns over drinking water contamination has reached a settlement. More than a year after a chemical spill in the Delaware River that led to widespread panic purchases of water in Lower Bucks County and […]

Source: https://www.politico.com/, May 23, 2024 By: Alex Guillen and Chris Marquette Norfolk Southern will pay just over $500 million — $310 in environmental cleanup and $200 million for rail safety upgrades — as a result of last year’s disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the Biden administration announced on Thursday. The proposed settlement, reached […]

Source: https://www.seattlepi.com/, May 29, 2024 By: Jordan Gass-Poore, The Uproot Project For more than a decade, some residents of the tiny Richmond, Rhode Island, neighborhood of Canob Park drank and bathed using tap water that had been tainted by gasoline that leaked from storage tanks buried under service stations a few hundred yards from their […]