Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Court Exempts Airlines from Developer’s Sept. 11 Environmental Claim
May 7 2014 // American Airlines, United Airlines and the World Trade Center leaseholder do not have to pay a property developer environmental cleanup costs from the Sept. 11, 2001 hijacked plane attacks, a U.S. appeals court ruled on...
PartnerOne Environmental, ACE Westchester Launch New Energy Product
May 6 2014 // PartnerOne Environmental has partnered with ACE Westchester Environmental to offer PartnerOne Energy Select, a new packaged insurance product specifically for environmental energy contractors and consultants. PartnerOne...
West Virginia Judge Allows City’s Chemical Spill Investigation to Continue
May 5 2014 // A Putnam County judge has ordered a Hurricane landfill where wastewater from a Charleston chemical spill was dumped to produce documents sought by the city of Hurricane in its investigation. Circuit Judge Phillip Stowers...
BNSF Settles Lawsuit with Montana City Over Contamination
May 5 2014 // BNSF Railway has settled a lawsuit filed by landowners living near a former railroad tie treatment plant near Somers, Mont. BNSF spokesman Matt Jones told the Flathead Beacon the settlement reached last month calls for the...
The Risks of Dining Out and How Insurance Can Help
May 5 2014 // Eating out may be less work, but that doesn’t mean there is less risk, according to a new report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), which finds that Americans are more than twice as likely to...
AG Comes Down On Washington Business For Asbestos Training
May 2 2014 // Two Tacoma business owners entered guilty pleas on Friday in Pierce County Superior Court after Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson leveled multiple charges against them for allegedly selling substandard asbestos...
Court Revives Suit Over WWII Site Cleanup in California
Apr 29 2014 // A divided U.S. appeals court revived efforts by oil companies to force the federal government to reimburse them for the cost to clean up a Southern California site where they had dumped toxic sludge during World War II. By...
Duke Puts $10B Pricetag on North Carolina Coal-Ash Cleanup
Apr 24 2014 // Duke Energy Corp. said the total tab for cleaning up its North Carolina coal-ash dumps may reach $10 billion amid a call for national rules to regulate the disposal of the fossil-fuel byproduct. Duke plans to spend $2...
Safety Laws Still Lacking a Year After Texas Plant Blast
Apr 23 2014 // It has been a year since a fire caused a huge explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that killed 15 people, yet companies in the state can still store hazardous chemicals in flammable wooden containers in buildings without...
Lawsuits Over West Virginia Chemical Spill Moved to District Court
Apr 22 2014 // Lawsuits against Freedom Industries Inc., whose leaky chemical tank polluted drinking water in West Virginia, were transferred from bankruptcy court to federal district court in Charleston last week to “assure...
Heavy Asbestos Fines for Hanford Contractors in Washington
Apr 8 2014 // Two contractors at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington will pay more than $175,000 in fines after an investigation found alleged asbestos violations. The Environmental Protection Agency says CH2M Hill Plateau...
Declarations
Apr 7 2014 // Consumer Recoveries “We are constantly working to streamline regulations, cut red tape and expand the banking and insurance markets, but when our licensees violate our laws and regulations, we take action and hold...
Environmental Exposure: Flood Risk in the Oil & Gas Industry
Apr 7 2014 // There has been much discussion regarding the increasing frequency and intensity of storms around the world. While both underwriters and insurance buyers are concerned with exposure to potential catastrophic losses from...
Ten things to know about environmental liability
Apr 7 2014 // The market for environmental insurance products remains fluid and highly competitive. Although some carriers raised rates, aggressive pricing and terms are still prevalent. Pricing expectations are flat to 10 percent lower...
Georgia Beauty Salons Seek to Reduce Hazardous Chemical Exposure
Apr 2 2014 // Federal officials and Georgia beauty professionals have formed an alliance to reduce exposure to hazardous chemicals. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the...
Chubb Appoints Barr as European Environmental Manager
Apr 1 2014 // Chubb Insurance Company of Europe SE announced the appointment of David Barr to the role of European Environmental Manager. Fred Shurbaji, Chubb European Commercial Manager, explained that Barr “will be responsible...
Oversight Chair Questions Safety At New Mexico Nuke Dump
Mar 28 2014 // The recent truck fire and radiation release from the government’s troubled nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico were “near misses” at a facility whose workers proved unprepared to respond to the...
North Carolina Joins EPA Action, Scuttles Coal Ash Deal with Duke Energy
Mar 27 2014 // North Carolina regulators have asked a judge to withdraw a proposed settlement that would have allowed Duke Energy to resolve environmental violations by paying a $99,000 fine with no requirement that the $50 billion...
China Regulators Order Insurers to End Smog Coverage
Mar 27 2014 // Chinese regulators have told the country’s two largest insurers to stop selling coverage against smog, a week after such policies were launched, the China Daily reported on Thursday. The newspaper did not say why the...
Mass. Biz Owner Charged in Connection With Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 20 2014 // Massachusetts Attorney General’s office announced a Lowell, Mass., businessman has been indicted on charges he failed to accurately report his total payroll and number of employees and understated the number of jobs...
