Environmental liability insurance covers liability and cleanup expenses associated with pollution. Specifically, it protects businesses involved in creating, processing or transporting products deemed ...

Environmental risks are no longer confined to oil fields and smokestacks. As environmental liability insurance stretches into new sectors, Devin Brown (pictured), vice president – specialty insurance ...

As regulators strengthen legislation, pollution insurance is ever-more essential. Many global companies still see pollution regulation as more bark than bite. But many of the world’s major economies ...

The threat of corporate environmental liability incidents is increasing as new regulations—and new risks—take hold. Doing one’s homework may be the best insurance for risk managers aiming to protect ...

Biodiversity loss--driven by actions such as illegal wildlife trade, deforestation, climate change, and mining--causes cascading ecological, social, and economic harm. These impacts place growing ...

The Comprehensive Environmental Response Cleanup and Liability Act (CERCLA), better known to the general public as the Superfund program, was passed by Congress on December 11, 1980. Under CERCLA, the ...

WWF, the conservation organization, strongly urges European Environmental Ministers, meeting for the last time under the Spanish Presidency, to learn from past environmental disasters such as the ...

Personal liability is a mounting possibility for directors, officers and supervisors of organizations that run afoul of environmental regulators or are on the losing side of civil litigation. During a ...

If this amendment had been passed, nuclear operators feared they would face unlimited liability for accidents. The vote coincided with a revision of the Paris Convention on Third Party Nuclear ...