Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Environmental Group Lists Data on 313 Minn. Bridges Online
Aug 31 2007 // Data on 313 Minnesota bridges can be found online, thanks to the work of an environmental group that compiled information from state and federal sources. The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy organized the data...
ACE Expands Environmental Policy
Aug 31 2007 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has expanded its suite of environmental liability insurance products to cover the exposures of U.S. multinational organizations with global...
Neighbors Worry About Toxins from Building Next to WTC Site
Aug 26 2007 // Panicked residents fear a partially dismantled building where a recent blaze killed two firefighters and stripped away protective coverings may be releasing some of the toxic contaminants that blanketed the neighborhood on...
Fire in Abandoned Skyscraper Kills Two
Aug 20 2007 // Health risks from asbestos and other toxic materials were questioned Sunday following the blaze that killed two firefighters in an abandoned skyscraper being dismantled next to the World Trade Center. Results from...
How to write energy risks in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Directors & Officers Liability
Aug 6 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
How to write energy risks in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // Today’s energy industry is being challenged by climate changes, market fluctuations, business mergers, natural disasters, terrorism, war, political risk, increasing regulatory and financial scrutiny and evolving...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment. The world has...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment. The world has...
Managing energy industry risk in a volatile world
Jul 23 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Few Families Accept Florida Contaminated Land Buyout
Jul 20 2007 // Federal officials have offered to buy dozens of homes built near a Superfund site in Pensacola, Fla., but only a handful of families have taken offers. The six families that have agreed to sell their homes are among 55...
Trial Set in Calif. for Latin American Banana Workers
Jul 11 2007 // The pesticide was designed to kill worms infesting the roots of banana trees on Latin American plantations. But at least 5,000 agricultural workers from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama have filed five...
Preliminary Damage Assessments Continue After Oklahoma Floods
Jul 10 2007 // As river levels continued to drop and dry weather prevailed in most parts of Oklahoma on July 8, preliminary damage assessments from recent flooding began coming in. In Miami, one of the hardest-hit areas, City Manager...
BISYS Tri-City Brokerage Launches Environmental Practice
Jul 9 2007 // Tri-City Brokerage, a division of BISYS Commercial Insurance Services Inc., announced the launch of its environmental insurance practice, Tri-City Environmental. This new division will focus on providing risk solutions to...
Burns and Wilcox Announces Pollution Liability Coverage in Florida
Jun 28 2007 // In Florida, the Tampa and Daytona Beach offices of Burns and Wilcox announced the availability of ACE Westchester Specialty Group’s pollution liability insurance product, as offered through Westchester Surplus Lines...
Ex-EPA Chief Whitman Defends Ground Zero Health Statements
Jun 27 2007 // Come clean, one lawmaker demanded of ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman. Tell us the truth about the health dangers in the air around ground zero, said another. Yet for three hours at a congressional hearing Monday — and for...
Ohio 3rd State to Reject Cases Against Paint Manufacturers
Jun 26 2007 // Ohio is the third state this month where courts have rejected the lawsuits by parents whose children were made sick by lead paint against the companies that might have made the paint. The state is the third this month...
China: Rich Nations Wrong to Criticize its CO2 Emissions While Buying its Products
Jun 22 2007 // It is hypocritical for developed countries to criticize China’s greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously buying products from its booming manufacturing sector, Beijing said Thursday, defending its environmental...
Rich Joins Legends Environmental as VP, Wholesale Division
Jun 20 2007 // California-based Legends Environmental Insurance Services has expanded its Wholesale Division with the hiring of John Rich as the new vice president of Wholesale Division. Rich has 26 years of commercial insurance...
