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title: "What Insurance Covers Pollution?"
description: "Environmental liability may cover specified cleanup and third-party pollution claims; standard CGL generally excludes most pollution damage."
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# What Insurance Covers Pollution?

Environmental liability may cover specified cleanup and third-party pollution claims; standard CGL generally excludes most pollution damage.

Standard CGL generally excludes most pollution losses, while environmental policies define their own covered pollutants, sites, and events.

Check cleanup grants, third-party claims, known-condition exclusions, scheduled locations, retroactive dates, and limits. Describe the sites and materials you handle.

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## Related Coverage

- [General liability](https://spot.insure/coverage/general-liability)

## Sources

1. [Commercial general liability insurance](https://www.iii.org/article/commercial-general-liability-insurance). Insurance Information Institute; Coverage A: Bodily Injury and Property Damage Liability; Purchasing commercial general liability insurance; Directors and Officers liability. Accessed 2026-09-25.
2. [Environmental liability insurance](https://www.iii.org/article/environmental-liability-insurance). Insurance Information Institute; Environmental liability insurance; History of pollution coverage. Accessed 2026-09-25.

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