All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 14 2016 // Panelists at a recent New York event hosted yesterday by Lloyd’s, the world’s specialist insurance market, and the American Security Project, a nonpartisan national security think-tank, urged the insurance...
Oct 12 2016 // The Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection says the state has finished cleaning up large amounts of arsenic in Ohio County.The Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reports that the agency spent the summer removing...
Oct 10 2016 // New regulations governing the extraction of natural gas through fracking went into effect on Saturday in Pennsylvania, the first overhaul since the industry took off in the state more than 10 years ago.The new rules allow...
Oct 5 2016 // SLB Insurance Group of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has hired Jeffrey Cunningham to lead its new Environmental Insurance division. Cunningham started the new Environmental division for SLB’s Wholesale Insurance Brokerage...
Oct 3 2016 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group promoted Jason M. Cohen to divisional president of Strategic Comp, succeeding Stephen Rosenthal, who will retire at the end of 2016.Cohen joined Great American in 2006...
Oct 3 2016 // You wake up in the morning, brush your teeth and wash your face. The toothpaste and face wash go down the drain and you’ll never see it again… right? Wrong! What if I told you some of the ingredients, known as...
Sep 30 2016 // A 2014 chemical spill into the water supply of 300,000 West Virginians could have been avoided if a company inspected its storage tanks and saw two tiny holes forming at the bottom, federal investigators said...
Sep 30 2016 // Obese and overweight workers are more likely to incur high costs related to workers’ compensation claims for major injuries, reports a study in the September Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,...
Sep 29 2016 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has issued an emergency rule requiring public notification of pollution events within 24 hours, a move that comes after it took weeks to notify local residents about a fertilizer plant that leaked...
Sep 29 2016 // The Water Works and Sewer Board in Gadsden, Ala., has filed a lawsuit against more than 30 carpet and textile companies over pollution in the city’s water supply.Media outlets report that the lawsuit, filed Sept. 22,...
Sep 28 2016 // A group of 40 investors managing $1.25 trillion in assets have launched a campaign to encourage 16 global food companies to change the way they source protein for their products to help to reduce environmental and health...
Sep 27 2016 // The operator of a suburban St. Louis landfill where an underground fire is producing a strong odor has reached a settlement in federal lawsuits filed by nearly three dozen nearby residents.Bridgeton Landfill LLC announced...
Sep 27 2016 // Duke Energy Corp. has agreed to pay a $6 million fine for a big spill that coated the Dan River with liquefied coal ash in 2014, North Carolina’s environment agency said Friday.The fine holds Duke Energy accountable...
Sep 26 2016 // A supplier of cookie dough that Blue Bell Creameries blamed for a possible listeria contamination of some of its ice cream said that its product tested negative for the pathogen before it was sent to the Texas-based...
Sep 26 2016 // A federal lawsuit was filed late Thursday by three central Florida residents who live near a fertilizer plant where more than 200 million gallons of contaminated wastewater leaked into one of the state’s main...
Sep 23 2016 // Exxon Mobil Corp. will pay $12 million for environmental damages caused by a pipeline break that spilled 63,000 gallons (238,474 liters) of crude into Montana’s Yellowstone River and prompted a national debate over...
Sep 23 2016 // There has been a marked increase in the number of companies purchasing environmental impairment liability (EIL) cover across Europe in recent years, mainly due to an increase in regulation and buyer awareness, according to...
Sep 22 2016 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working to stop the potential spread of asbestos at the former Arkell and Smiths Sack Co. facility in Canajoharie, N.Y. Exposure to asbestos can lead to lung cancer and...
Sep 22 2016 // Chemical manufacturing giant Dow fails to warn people in farming communities throughout California when a potentially dangerous pesticide is applied to nearby fields, health advocates claimed in a lawsuit filed...
Sep 22 2016 // Dozens of residents who live near a Florida fertilizer plant that has leaked more than 200 million gallons of contaminated water into a drinking water aquifer have asked for their water wells to be tested for...