Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Legends Environmental Appoints Rich to Wholesale Division
Jun 15 2007 // Legends Environmental Insurance Services in Phoenix has expanded its Wholesale Division with the hiring of John Rich as vice president of that division. Rich has 26 years of commercial insurance experience, having spent...
Miss. Environmental Crews to Finish Creosote Cleanup in Hattiesburg
Jun 6 2007 // Hattiesburg’s Gulf States Creosote Plant shut its doors nearly 50 years ago, but the clean up of creosote continues. Environmental activists and property owners are far from satisfied with the project, said Sherri...
New ‘Green’ captive insurer forms for eco-friendly businesses
Jun 4 2007 // Plans are in place for what its creators say will be the first captive insurance program designed exclusively for companies that are committed to sustainable business practices such as using renewable energy and producing...
Climate Change: Directors’ and officers’ risk ahead?
Jun 4 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...
New ‘Green’ captive insurer forms for eco-friendly businesses
Jun 4 2007 // Plans are in place for what its creators say will be the first captive insurance program designed exclusively for companies that are committed to sustainable business practices such as using renewable energy and producing...
Growing rail freight transportation industry meets growing risks
Jun 4 2007 // The demand for freight transportation by rail has grown steadily in recent years after a prolonged period of excess capacity. The increased demand was fueled by a generally growing U.S. economy, expanding imports from...
Expert Says Workers Could Be Exposed to Asbestos in Greensburg Clean-up
May 30 2007 // A Kansas asbestos expert says he is so sure that residents and volunteers who are wading through what’s left of Greensburg, Kan., are being exposed to the carcinogen that he’s willing to wager his reputation on...
US Calls on Asia to Take Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
May 30 2007 // Asian nations could reduce a quarter of their greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if they increase renewable energy use, improve coal-fired power plant efficiency and switch to biofuels, a U.S. government report said...
Study Highlights Industry’s Potential Climate Change Liabilities
May 29 2007 // Liabilities follow the insurance industry as the night follows the day. So, it’s not terribly surprising to learn that a new study – “Limiting Liability in the Greenhouse: Insurance Risk-management...
New ‘GREEN’ Captive Insurer Promises Savings for Eco-Friendly Businesses
May 22 2007 // Plans are in place for what its creators say will be the first captive insurance program designed exclusively for companies that are committed to sustainable business practices such as using renewable energy and producing...
Pet food case raises product recall, ‘special property’ and new coverage
May 21 2007 // The manufacturer of the contaminated pet foods that caused an unknown number of pet deaths and illnesses may want to put the controversy behind it, yet the pet food maker along with insurers, lawyers and other...
Pet food case raises product recall, ‘special property’ and new coverage issues
May 21 2007 // The manufacturer of the contaminated pet foods that caused an unknown number of pet deaths and illnesses may want to put the controversy behind it, yet the pet food maker along with insurers, lawyers and other...
Officials: Hold the chickens and the hogs
May 21 2007 // Think you and your pets are safe now that pet food contaminated with Melamine has been recalled? Think again. On May 7, U.S. officials representing the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and the...
