All the headlines from our Pollution Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 24 2012 // ISO says it has received approval of its Risk Analyzer Homeowners by-peril rating rules in 13 states and has filings pending approval in several other states.ISO would not disclose which states have cleared its filings....
Aug 22 2012 // Homeowners who live on the shores of Lake Independence near Minneapolis, Minn., say a dairy farm is to blame for turning the lake into a noxious mix of pollutants. Twenty-one individual homeowners and the Lake Independence...
Aug 13 2012 // Insurance companies must pay up to the policy limits for cleanup of the Stringfellow Acid Pits in Riverside County, the California Supreme Court ruled.The 17-acre industrial waste dump 50 miles east of Los Angeles near...
Aug 9 2012 // Environmental groups in five states are suing the federal government, claiming Environmental Protection Agency rules on chemical dispersants used in oil spills do not meet clean water requirements.The lawsuit filed Monday...
Aug 9 2012 // Investigators were looking at how a small, seemingly insignificant leak at one of the country’s biggest oil refineries quickly unraveled into an intense fire that sent acrid black smoke into the sky and hundreds of...
Aug 6 2012 // Washington state will begin requiring municipalities to use “rain gardens” and pervious pavement in new urban developments to combat rainwater pollution to the state’s rivers and lakes and to the Puget...
Aug 1 2012 // A natural gas drilling company is taking a new tack in the industry’s fight against local drilling bans: It’s threatening to sue if New York regulators don’t step in and extinguish the prohibitions.John...
Jul 27 2012 // Environmentalists filed notice Wednesday that they plan to sue the six companies that co-own eastern Montana’s Colstrip power plant over alleged pollution violations.The Sierra Club and Montana Environmental...
Jul 27 2012 // West Virginia mine regulators have failed to meet internal goals for timely inspections and permits, a legislative audit concluded, but agency officials disagree with the auditors over why.The report released this week to...
Jul 25 2012 // San Mateo County prosecutors are suing a Redwood City construction company they claim illegally dumped five barrels of hazardous materials in a garbage bin.The lawsuit alleges that three sanitation workers were sent to a...
Jul 25 2012 // The Obama administration moved Tuesday to streamline the development of large-scale solar projects on public lands by approving 17 vast tracts across the West it says has the highest power-generating potential and the...
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...
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 Hyundai...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Hyundai...
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...