Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Spinach Probe Most Thorough Ever, But No Clear Answers Yet
Oct 30 2006 // Like lab technicians on a crime-scene television drama, investigators have tracked a strain of bacteria over thousands of miles — from bagged spinach in Midwestern refrigerators to the guts of a wild pig in the hills...
Apex, N.C. Fire Chief Predicted Heavy Loss From Chemical Fire
Oct 27 2006 // Apex’s fire chief told a North Carolina state task force this week that he was prepared to lose an entire city block when a chemical fire ignited an industrial waste recycling plant earlier this month because he...
Winn Joins Burns & Wilcox Dallas Office as Transportation Assistant
Oct 24 2006 // Burns & Wilcox, a Farmington Hills, Mich.-based national specialty insurance wholesaler, underwriter and managing general agent, announced the addition of Krista Winn, who joins the company’s Dallas, Texas,...
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Oct 23 2006 // Okla. AG, Ark. governor spar over chicken waste Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Ed-mondson is playing politics by demonizing the poultry industry and setting unrealistic goals for reduced...
E. coli expedites need for recall and business interruption coverage
Oct 23 2006 // On Sept. 13, epidemiologists in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Oregon began discussing a cluster of E. coli infections and warned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that they suspected fresh-bagged spinach as the...
Ark. Gov. Blasts Okla. AG
Oct 13 2006 // Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson is playing politics by demonizing the poultry industry and setting unrealistic goals for reduced pollution levels in Oklahoma’s...
Supreme Court Rejects W.R. Grace Asbestos Clean-Up Appeal
Oct 12 2006 // W.R. Grace & Co. lost its bid to the Supreme Court Tuesday to get out from under a $54 million bill to clean up asbestos in the Montana mining town of Libby. Justices rejected without comment Columbia, Md.-based...
Calif. attorney general sues automakers over global warming
Oct 9 2006 // Automakers should be held liable for contributions to global warming, according to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Thus, he recently filed a lawsuit against leading U.S. and Japanese auto manufacturers, alleging...
Calif. attorney general sues automakers over global warming
Oct 9 2006 // Automakers should be held liable for contributions to global warming, according to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer. Thus, he recently filed a lawsuit against leading U.S. and Japanese auto manufacturers, alleging...
Travelers’ Unveiling Ceremony for Energy Star Scheduled for Oct. 6
Oct 3 2006 // St. Paul Travelers will hold an unveiling ceremony to celebrate its new ENERGY STAR(R) label, awarded through a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy, according...
U.S. Denies Funding for Burlington, Vt. Lead Abatement Program
Sep 29 2006 // A city lead abatement program that has been recognized nationally might have to shut down because the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has denied a request for a $3 million grant. “We were very...
N.Y. City to Adjust Reservoirs to Lessen Delaware River Flooding
Sep 27 2006 // New York City has agreed to periodically lower the water level in three of its upstate reservoirs in an attempt to ease flooding along the Delaware River, according to environmental officials. By leaving the reservoirs...
Travelers Offers Texas Hybrid Drivers 10% Discount on Auto Coverage
Sep 26 2006 // Texas hybrid car owners can now take advantage of a 10 percent discount on auto insurance offered by Travelers, the company announced. The discount complements other Texas perks for hybrid drivers. The company clarified...
Virginia broker goes green: first ‘carbon neutral footprint’
Sep 25 2006 // Rutherfoord, a Roanoke, Va., insurance broker, says it is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and has become the first in the U.S. insurance industry to establish a carbon neutral footprint in response to...
Quanta Sells Environmental Business to WSP Group
Sep 19 2006 // Quanta Capital Holdings Ltd. announced that it has completed the sale of Environmental Strategies Consulting LLC (ESC) to WSP Environmental Holdings, Inc., a division of the U.K.-based management and consulting firm WSP...
Feds Hit Over Ground Zero Workers’ Health Problems
Sep 12 2006 // Lawmakers said federal officials failed to protect ground zero workers as they clambered over the smoking pile of toxic debris and have not properly cared for them in the years since. In a daylong House hearing last...
Berkley Launches Specialty Division for Environmental Contractors
Sep 12 2006 // W. R. Berkley Corporation announced that Berkley Specialty Underwriting Managers LLC has formed a new division that will offer specialty insurance products for environmental contractors, consultants and site specific...
Specialized Care Network Found to Reduce Workers’ Comp Costs
Sep 12 2006 // In workers’ compensation cases, management of injured workers by a specialized network of health care providers—without third-party utilization review—can reduce missed work days and lower health care costs,...
BISYS Acquires JCH Insurance Brokers
Sep 8 2006 // BISYS Commercial Insurance Services, a provider of commercial property and casualty insurance solutions, today announced its acquisition of JCH Environmental Insurance Brokers, the environmental practice of JCH Insurance...
Five Seek to Define N.Y. Attorney General Role After Spitzer
Sep 5 2006 // Democrat Eliot Spitzer has tackled illegal trading on Wall Street and fraudulent deals in the insurance industry and sued the federal government to force environmental protections in his nearly eight years as attorney...
