Latest Pollution Headlines
All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
What the Next Generation of Insurance Consumers Wants
Feb 23 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Did you know that in the next 3 years Millennials and Gen Z will comprise 75% of the workforce? That means by 2025 the majority of working individuals will have been...
School District in Washington Offers $34M in Toxic Exposure Case
Feb 21 2022 // The Monroe, Washington, School District offered a $34 million settlement to students and parents exposed to toxic chemicals on a public school campus. The district proposed the settlement in November under court seal,...
Mississippi Capital Replaces Faulty Water Meters – One of Many Upgrades Needed
Feb 17 2022 // Mississippi’s capital city is installing new meters to try to correct one problem with its water system. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said that residents may soon see Utility Metering Solutions employees in...
Heat Wave Early Warning, Ranking System Proposed in California
Feb 16 2022 // A pair of California legislators and the state’s insurance commissioner are pushing a bill to create an early warning system for heatwaves. California State Assembly Members Luz Rivas (D-San Fernando Valley) and...
Indiana Steel Mill to Pay $3 Million, Improve Waste System
Feb 16 2022 // A steel company has agreed to pay $3 million and improve the wastewater system at an Indiana mill, more than two years after a discharge of ammonia and toxic chemicals killed fish and closed beaches, the federal government...
Most Critical Infrastructure Sectors Haven’t Adopted NIST Cybersecurity Framework
Feb 16 2022 // A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) found most of the country’s critical infrastructure have yet to take steps toward adopting a nearly decade-old framework to improve...
Earthquakes in Texas Doubled in 2021. Scientists Cite Years of Oil Companies Injecting Sludgy Water Underground.
Feb 9 2022 // MIDLAND — One local said it sounded like a pickup truck had rammed into the side of their house. Another said it sounded like the air conditioner fell off the roof. A third compared the experience to getting off of a...
School District in Washington Offers $34M in Toxic Exposure Case
Feb 9 2022 // The Monroe, Washington, School District offered a $34 million settlement to students and parents exposed to toxic chemicals on a public school campus. The Seattle Times reports the district proposed the settlement in...
Judge Awards $40 Million to Lawyers in Flint, Michigan Water Settlement
Feb 8 2022 // A judge awarded about $40 million to the lead attorneys in a $626 million settlement for Flint residents and property owners whose water was contaminated with lead, but millions in additional legal fees will also be carved...
3 Firms to Pay $65M to Settle Upstate New York Water Pollution Class Action
Feb 8 2022 // HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge has approved a $65 million settlement in a class action lawsuit with three companies over chemical contamination of the water supply in an upstate New York village. The Times...
People Moves: Philadelphia Insurance Promotes 11 to Vice President
Feb 7 2022 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies (PHLY) announced the promotion of 11 leaders in its Underwriting, Marketing, Risk Management, Insurance Operations and Human Resources departments: Lynn Bencivenga has been promoted to vice...
Commercial Auto Among Lines With Flattening Rates in 2022, USI Forecast Predicts
Feb 7 2022 // Although it wasn’t the headline of a commercial insurance broker’s market pricing report last month, the report’s observation that “commercial auto liability coverage rates are starting to...
Declarations
Feb 7 2022 // PG&E Probation “In these five years, PG&E has gone on a crime spree and will emerge from probation as a continuing menace to California.” — U.S. District Judge William Alsup said the utility...
Michigan Farm’s Beef Found to Contain Toxic Chemicals
Feb 1 2022 // Beef produced at a small Michigan farm was found to contain toxic “forever chemicals” after the cattle were fed crops grown with fertilizer made from contaminated wastewater biosolids, state officials said Jan....
EPA to Conduct Unannounced Inspections in 3 Gulf Coast States
Jan 27 2022 // The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a series of enforcement actions to address air pollution, unsafe drinking water and other problems afflicting minority communities in three Gulf Coast states, following a...
Princess Cruise Lines Pleads Guilty to Probation Violation in Waste Dumping Case
Jan 14 2022 // Princess Cruises has pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating its probation related to previous environmental crimes. Company officials signed a plea agreement in Miami federal court, according to court records. The company...
EPA Targets Coal Ash Storage Ponds for Closure
Jan 13 2022 // The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first major action to address toxic wastewater from coal-burning power plants, denying requests by three Midwest power plants to extend operations of leaking or otherwise...
West Penn Power Settles Coal Ash Discharge Complaints With Environmental Agencies
Jan 12 2022 // West Penn Power of Greensburg, Pennsylvania will pay a $610,000 penalty under a settlement to resolve water discharge violations at two coal ash landfills in southwestern Pennsylvania. The settlement was announced by the...
Sioux City Sued by Iowa Over Wastewater Scheme, River Pollution
Jan 10 2022 // The state of Iowa said Jan. 7 that it is suing Sioux City over what it says was the city’s manipulation of wastewater testing results and dangerous pollution of the Missouri River in a scheme that saw the wastewater...
Harmful Soot Unchecked as Big Oil Battles EPA Over Testing: INSIGHT
Jan 7 2022 // A deadly form of soot pollution from U.S. refineries has gone unregulated for decades because of a dispute between the U.S. oil industry and federal environmental officials over how to measure it, according to documents...
