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Pollution Exclusion Carve-Out Creates Duty to Defend PFAS Remediation Claim

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The United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, applying New York law, has determined that an insurer had a duty to defend an insured because a carve-out to the relevant pollution exclusion applied....more

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CERCLA Cost Recovery: Federal Court Addresses Whether Municipality's Urban Renewal Activities Potentially Constitute Arranger...

A United States District Court (New Hampshire) addressed in an October 13th Order an issue arising out of a Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) cost recovery action. See Banfield...more

Sullivan & Worcester

PFAS Regulation Update

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EPA Steps into the Mix While States Continue Swift Action in Light of Potential Health Risks - In a prior posting, we noted the proliferation of state legislative and regulatory activity involving Per- and polyfluoroalkyl...more

Snell & Wilmer

EPA Catches Up On PFAS

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If you haven’t heard of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), you likely will soon. Like DDT, PCBs, asbestos, and MTBE before it, PFAS are a class of chemicals that have been used in a wide variety of commercial and...more

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law

Could voluntarily performing environmental cleanup threaten insurance coverage?

Because of the increasing frequency of significant, often multimillion-dollar, environmental claims against businesses and individuals under environmental statutes such as the Comprehensive Environmental Response,...more

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