Seepage and/or Pollution and/or Contamination Exclusion Clause

SEEPAGE and/or POLLUTION and/or CONTAMINATION EXCLUSION CLAUSE #

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary within the Policy of which this Endorsement  forms part (or within any other Endorsement which forms part of this Policy), this Policy does not insure :

1. Any loss, damage, cost or expense ; or
2. Any increase in insured loss, damage, cost or expense ; or
3. Any loss, damage, cost, expense, fire, penalty or other sum which is incurred, sustained or imposed by, or by the threat of, any judgement, order, direction, instruction or request of, or any agreement  with, any court, government agency, any public, civil or military authority or any other person (and whether or not as result of public or private litigation)

which arises from any kind of seepage or any kind  of pollution and/or contamination, or threat  thereof, whether or not caused by or resulting from a peril insured, or from steps or measures taken in connection with the avoidance, prevention, abatement, mitigation, remediation, clean up or removal of such seepage or pollution and/or contamination, or threat thereof.

The terms “any kind of seepage or any kind of pollution and/or contamination” as used in this Endorsement includes (but is not limited to) ;

1. Seepage of or pollution and/or contamination by anything, including but not limited to that which is designated by any governmental, public or regulatory body or authority as toxic, hazardous, dangerous or deleterious to persons, property or the environment under any law, ordinance, regulation or decree ;
2. The presence, existence, or release of anything which endangers or threatens to endanger the health, safety or walfare of persons or the environment.