Source: https://www.whiteandwilliams.com, October 22, 2020 By: Paul A. Briganti On October 19, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina held that a “hazardous materials” exclusion contained in a CGL policy did not preclude a duty to defend the insured against claims alleging bodily injury resulting from direct exposure to perfluorooctane […]

Source: https://www.courthousenews.com/, August 13, 2022 By: Gabriel Tynes Jerome Haley said he often hears alarms sounding at the Olin plant in McIntosh, Alabama. So often in fact, that he and his neighbors pay little attention to them anymore. Years ago, Haley said, management at the Olin plant and a neighboring chemical plant, which at the […]

Source: https://www.wyso.org/, July 31, 2022 By: Chris Welter The City of Fairborn is suing 32 chemical manufacturers for allegedly contaminating one of the city’s back-up wells with “forever chemicals.” “Forever chemicals,” or PFAS, are extremely difficult to break down because of their strong chemical bonds, so they can end up sticking around for a long time […]

Source: https://www.bnd.com/, July 28, 2022 By: Lexi Cortes Officials have released more details about an airborne chemical leak over the weekend at an East St. Louis manufacturing plant. A chemical transport trailer containing hydroxyethyl acrylate over-pressurized, possibly due to excessive heating, on Saturday morning at the Allnex USA, Inc. plant, spokeswomen for the company and […]

Source: https://www.northjersey.com/, July 27, 2022 By: Joe Malinconico The Rev. William Bishop, a retired clergyman, faces a $25,000 fine because of contamination on the property where he wanted to open a preschool, a site used as a gas station decades ago. That pending fine is entangled in a convoluted lawsuit Bishop filed against the New Jersey Department of Environmental […]

Source: https://www.seacoastonline.com/, July 19, 2022 By: Patrick Cronin More than a dozen lawsuits filed against the Sands Resort stemming from the 2018 Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at the Hampton Beach hotel have been settled. The outbreak took two lives and sickened dozens of people, leading to litigation. Read more.

Source: https://www.therepublic.com/, July 16, 2022 By: Andy East Camp Atterbury has confirmed that contractors have detected toxic “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, low birth weight and an array of other health problems in the groundwater on the training base near Edinburgh. The base, which is located in parts of Bartholomew, Brown and Johnson counties, joins […]

Source: https://pantagraph.com/, July 11, 2022 By: Michael Hawthorne Something as simple as drinking tap water is exposing millions of Illinoisans to toxic chemicals that build up in human blood, cause cancer and other diseases and take years to leave the body. Scientists call the chemicals per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS. They are commonly known […]

Source: https://www.mondaq.com/, June 28, 2022 By: Erin E. Lamb, Freeman Mathis & Gary At its Petersburg, New York plant, Tonoga, Inc. made products and materials coated with polytetrafluoroethylene, better known by its trade name, Teflon. Before 2013, when making Teflon, Tonoga used perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonate, or a combination of both. These are man-made chemicals […]

Source: https://www.inquirer.com/, June 28, 2022 By: Adam Smeltz A class of synthetic chemicals identified in 2019 near Penn State University’s airport has fouled tap water in an adjacent neighborhood, and families there are now demanding to know why it took environmental officials so long to test their wells, which they use for bathing, cooking, and […]

Source: https://www.fox21news.com/, June 28, 2022 Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper urged the U.S. Air Force to address water contamination in El Paso County from polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which were found in firefighting foam used at Peterson Space Force Base (SFB). According to the lawmakers, PFAS have contaminated the Widefield aquifer that provides drinking water […]

Source: https://www.wqpmag.com/, June 15, 2022 By: Cristina Tuser The Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) confirmed a fifth case of Legionnaires’ disease in a guest who stayed at The Grand Islander by Hilton Grand Vacations in Waikiki. According to the Hawai’i DOH, the fifth case was diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease on May 23. The individual is […]