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environmental Strategist, between the lines: Do you have Agricultural client’s impacted by Risk Management Program Regulations (RMPR)? Are they aware they have to update their RMPR every five years to stay in compliance. If you have agricultural clients that use, store, manufacture or handle the on-site movement of 10,000 pounds or more of anhydrous ammonia…

Environmental Strategist, between the lines: Prisons are mini cities facing a vast array of environmental exposures in their day to day operations. (Refer to attached ERMI Environmental Risk Assessment for Municipalities) Even your community jails face an array of environmental exposures such as leaks from fuel storage tanks used for backup power generators, mold, sick…

environmental Strategist, between the lines: Below is information on a sustainable website that can assist your construction and real estate developers to increase sales and reduce environmental liabilities, while better protecting human health and the environment. When you consider that sustainability has become a social value and therefore a business opportunity, this service can offer…

Parties agreed to pay penalty after EPA inspectors documented violations February 2, 2011 The Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) and three of its contractors have agreed to pay a $60,000 civil penalty for violating the terms of a storm water permit issued for the U.S. Highway 30 construction project in Tama County, Iowa. IDOT, along…

environmental Strategist, between the lines: Here is a common, everyday environmental exposure for contractors. What do you do with excess material from job sites? Environmental Risk Management Thought: Storm water runoff from road ways contains contaminates such as petroleum products, anti freeze, lead, cadmium, asbestos, hydraulic fluids… I hope this construction company at least had…

environmental Strategist, between the lines: In a relatively short period of time this will probably go country wide so be proactive and start today to prepare your tribal client’s for more government regulation. EPA proposes pesticide applicator certification plan for Indian Country in Region 8 Release date: 05/09/2011 Contact Information: Lisa McClain-Vanderpool, 303-312-6077 EPA proposes…

environmental Strategist, between the lines: Every business is impacted by environmental exposures and 98% of the business in the United States do not have the financial strength to self insure their environmental liabilities. Below is a random sampling of environmental losses experienced by contractors. Concrete Contractor Laid an undercoat of slag while creating a new…

environmental Strategist, between the lines: With our aging infrastructure, utility services (water, power, sewer & storm water systems, waste water treatment….) causing environmental liabilities are becoming more and more common. Do your utility clients have the financial resources available to self insure or does it make more fiscal and financial sense to transfer their environmental…

environmental Strategist, between the lines: This is a mini BP, just $500,000,000 and counting, States. I wonder which contractors and sub-contractors are being sued? Clean-up continues through winter as oil spill damage lingers By CAROL THOMPSON LANSING – Cleanup efforts are still underway more than six months after 819,000 gallons of heavy crude oil spilled…

environmental Strategist, between the lines: My question is not about the penalty imposed on the city of Farmington but the resulting liability that can impact the farmers where the sludge was applied. I hope the farmers or their insurance agents made sure the City of Farmington had pollution insurance to protect the farmers from this…