Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oil Firms, Regulators Miss Major Accident Indicators: Gulf Spill Report
Jul 25 2012 // Transocean and BP, trade associations, and U.S. regulators largely judged the safety of offshore facilities by focusing on routine personal injury and fatality data such as dropped objects and trips and falls when they...
Suit Says Hyundai Inflated 40 Mpg Claim
Jul 23 2012 // A California lawsuit says Hyundai’s Elantra vehicle doesn’t get the advertised 40 miles per gallon. Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog joined Elantra buyer Louis Bird in the Sacramento lawsuit claiming...
Tainted Montana Town Reaches Cleanup Milestone
Jul 23 2012 // Grass and freshly planted trees are sprouting in a new town park that sits atop the site of a vermiculite plant that once spewed asbestos dust across the mountain community of Libby — a welcome dose of normalcy for a...
Tainted Montana Town Reaches Cleanup Milestone
Jul 16 2012 // Grass and freshly planted trees are sprouting in a new town park that sits atop the site of a vermiculite plant that once spewed asbestos dust across the mountain community of Libby – a welcome dose of normalcy for a...
Texas Judge Rules Atmosphere, Air Is Public Trust
Jul 13 2012 // A Texas judge has ruled that the atmosphere and air must be protected for public use, just like water, which could help attorneys tasked with arguing climate change lawsuits designed to force states to cut emissions. The...
ACE Expands Catastrophe Management Services for Environmental Risks
Jul 13 2012 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operations of the ACE Group, has expanded its environmental risk insurance products to add catastrophe management coverage. In addition to coverage for standard remediation services included...
Chartis Adds Power Pack Protect Product for Power Generation Industry
Jul 13 2012 // The Chartis insurers have added PLL Power Pack Protect to the NextGen Protection suite of industry specific insurance products. PLL Power Pack Protect is designed to address environmental exposures associated with...
Suit Says Hyundai Inflated 40 Mph Claim
Jul 12 2012 // A California lawsuit says Hyundai’s Elantra vehicle doesn’t get the advertised 40 miles per gallon. Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog joined Elantra buyer Louis Bird in the Sacramento lawsuit claiming...
PartnerOne, Berkley Environmental to Offer Site Pollution Liability
Jul 12 2012 // PartnerOne Environmental , an underwriting division of Beacon Hill Associates’, is now working in partnership with Berkley Environmental, a dvision of Berkley Specialty Underwriting Managers, to offer site pollution...
Feds Say 160K Tires At Southern California Recycling Plant Pose Danger
Jul 10 2012 // Federal regulators say a Southern California desert tire recycler’s 160,000 discarded tires are dangerous. The Environmental Protection Agency told Mecca’s Consolidated Tire Recyclers a year ago that the tires...
Federal Regulators Settle Whistleblower Case with Texas-Based Pilgrim’s Pride
Jul 5 2012 // The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into a settlement agreement with Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. in Mount Pleasant, Texas, to resolve allegations that the company terminated an employee who raised environmental...
ACE Releases First Dollar Defense Endorsement for CPL Coverage
Jul 3 2012 // ACE USA has released ACE first dollar defense endorsement for contractors pollution liability (CPL) coverage. This new offering provides financial support for contractors facing litigation and defense costs for pollution...
Re/insurers Join Efforts to Support UN’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance
Jun 25 2012 // A number of insurers and reinsurers have agreed to join the UN-backed set of Principles for Sustainable Insurance. The initiative aims to provide insurance tools for risk management in support of environmental, social and...
Main Points of Agreement from Rio+20 Summit Show Little Progress
Jun 25 2012 // Global leaders on Friday wrapped up a United Nations development summit with little to show but a lackluster agreement, as critics scorned governments for showing no urgency to tackle climate change as well as food and...
Much of Kalamazoo River to Open, 2 Years After Spill
Jun 25 2012 // Nearly all of the Kalamazoo River is being reopened for recreational use and the cleanup of a massive oil spill nearly two years ago is in its final stages, federal, state and local officials announced on June...
Experts Say Science Lacking on 9/11 and Cancer
Jun 22 2012 // Call it compassionate, even political. But … scientific? Several experts say there’s no hard evidence to support the federal government’s declaration this month that 50 kinds of cancer could be caused by...
Regulations, Exclusions Driving Demand in Contractors Pollution Liability Market
Jun 18 2012 // An increase in contract requirements and government regulations has led to a surge in demand for contractors pollution liability coverage, the experts say. Kenneth Schneider, senior vice president of Rockhill Underwriter...
The Next New Thing
Jun 18 2012 // Coverage Issues from Fracking Claims Every few years there are predictions of a new type of claim that threatens to engulf carriers. In the 1980s and 1990s it was environmental clean up claims and SuperFund, followed...
Senators Call for Bipartisan Support for Cap on Crop Insurance Subsidies
Jun 15 2012 // U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Pat Toomey, R-Pa. are urging the Senate to support their bipartisan amendment to end what they say are excessive federal crop insurance subsidies for large American farming...
West Virginia Residents Settle Final Slurry Pollution Claims with Massey
Jun 14 2012 // Hundreds of Boone County residents who blame coal companies for contaminating their water supplies settled their last remaining lawsuit with Massey Energy and four subsidiaries this week just as a trial was set to begin...
