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Chemical producers' initiatives in environmental risk management gain traction with underwriters.

Specialists in environmental risk management say the more rigor that is applied to underwriting, the better it is for the insured, the carrier, and the market as a whole.

A listing of some of the nation's top environmental services companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

A risk manager at a Western utility finds just the right--but rare--tool he needs to manage all his company's exposures: a captive.

Don't be fooled by injury statistics. They don't tell the whole story.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded chemical companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

Drivers are longing for the days of cheap gasoline, and oil companies are pining for the days of cheap insurance. Those days are gone, swept away by hurricanes. Now the oil industry faces paying much more for much less when they go to buy windstorm coverage for their offshore rigs and platforms.

The underwriting status quo in the marine and energy insurance market is sinking. Parts of it already lie in tatters at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The time has come for a new model to float to the surface.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded oil & gas services companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

America needs more natural gas. Other countries want to sell it to us. It's getting it here and into the pipelines that presents the risk, some of it physical but much of it political.

A listing of some of the nation's top oil and gas companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released an interim final rule on security regulations for high-risk chemical facilities. Read more on the CFATS here.

The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates sponsors ChemStewards, in conjunction with Chartis Insurance. Read more about the SOCMA's broad risk management program.

The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for environmental insurance? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.