All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 13 2007 // The daily commute to a high school on Hatteras Island offered Dare County teacher Lisa Duke a gorgeous drive on a scenic highway with the ocean on one side and Pamlico Sound on the other.But the few hundred feet that lift...
Sep 7 2007 // Four of the nation’s biggest microwave popcorn makers, including one in Iowa, are working to remove a flavoring chemical from their products linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers while reassuring...
Aug 31 2007 // ACE USA announced from its Philadelphia headquarters that it has expanded its suite of environmental liability insurance products to meet “the unique exposures of U.S. multinational organizations with global...
Aug 31 2007 // Data on 313 Minnesota bridges can be found online, thanks to the work of an environmental group that compiled information from state and federal sources.The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy organized the data...
Aug 31 2007 // ACE USA, the U.S.-based retail operating division of the ACE Group of Companies, has expanded its suite of environmental liability insurance products to cover the exposures of U.S. multinational organizations with global...
Aug 26 2007 // Panicked residents fear a partially dismantled building where a recent blaze killed two firefighters and stripped away protective coverings may be releasing some of the toxic contaminants that blanketed the neighborhood on...
Aug 20 2007 // Health risks from asbestos and other toxic materials were questioned Sunday following the blaze that killed two firefighters in an abandoned skyscraper being dismantled next to the World Trade Center.Results from...
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Aug 6 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...
Aug 6 2007 // Today’s energy industry is being challenged by climate changes, market fluctuations, business mergers, natural disasters, terrorism, war, political risk, increasing regulatory and financial scrutiny and evolving...
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment.The world has...
Jul 23 2007 // Taking the time to qualify a responsive and capable carrier with energy industry-specific expertise, upfront, before scrambling to line up quotes or compare policy parameters, is worth the investment.The world has...
Jul 23 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Jul 20 2007 // Federal officials have offered to buy dozens of homes built near a Superfund site in Pensacola, Fla., but only a handful of families have taken offers.The six families that have agreed to sell their homes are among 55...
Jul 11 2007 // The pesticide was designed to kill worms infesting the roots of banana trees on Latin American plantations.But at least 5,000 agricultural workers from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama have filed five...
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 Mike...
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...
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...
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...