{"id":2561,"date":"2021-01-22T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:14:08","slug":"johnson-controls-to-pay-17-5m-for-pfas-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/johnson-controls-to-pay-17-5m-for-pfas-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson Controls to Pay $17.5m for PFAS Contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"

environmental Strategist, between the lines:<\/strong>\u00a0 After more than three decades concentrating in environmental risk management \/ insurance, I am still amazed how many businesses do not understand the vast array of environmental exposures impacting their business model.<\/p>\n

An emerging pollutant businesses need to be familiar with are PFAS chemicals.\u00a0 There are over 4,000 PFAS chemicals and they are a \u201cforever chemical\u201d.\u00a0 If you are not familiar with PFAS chemicals, you need to be so let me know and I will send you some information.\u00a0 As an example of why PFAS is the next asbestos, to date, the State of Michigan has identified fewer than 200 PFAS contaminated sites in the State and experts believe that number is going to grow to 11,000 just in Michigan.<\/p>\n

As the link below points out Johnson Controls is paying residents of the Town of Peshtigo, Wi. $17.5m for PFAS contamination of drinking water wells from the company\u2019s firefighting foam training site.\u00a0 The settlement covers a contamination plume of about three-square miles.<\/p>\n

Environmental coaching strategy:\u00a0 <\/strong>Working with a commercial insured, should they give you the old \u201cwe don\u2019t have any environmental exposures in our business\u201d.\u00a0 The question to ask next is, who are your neighbors and what if a neighbor causes for contamination to come onto your property?\u00a0 Pollution insurance policies can protect insureds if third parties contaminate their property.<\/p>\n

I have found an effective way to get this point across is have the business pull up Google maps on their computer and type in their address.\u00a0 Now have them scan out to a 2-mile radius (in a Phase I site assessment they do a minimum of a 2-mile radius search to see who neighbors are) from the subject property and ask them how comfortable they are that no one in the 2 mile radius could cause for contamination to come onto their property.\u00a0 Oh, you are not comfortable, that would be a good reason to consider investing in pollution insurance.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/wisconsinexaminer.com\/brief\/johnson-controls-to-pay-17-5m-to-town-of-peshtigo-residents-in-pfas-class-action-suit\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

environmental Strategist, between the lines:\u00a0 After more than three decades concentrating in environmental risk management \/ insurance, I am still amazed how many businesses do not understand the vast array of environmental exposures impacting their business model. An emerging pollutant businesses need to be familiar with are PFAS chemicals.\u00a0 There are over 4,000 PFAS chemicals… Continue reading Johnson Controls to Pay $17.5m for PFAS Contamination<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-featured","category-risk","category-webinars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2562,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}