Source: Modesto Bee (CA), January 14, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com In a ruling with implications for cities across the United States, appellate justices this week rejected Modesto’s request to reinstate a $75 million judgment against a producer of toxic dry cleaning chemicals. However, the ruling also paves the way for a new trial under conditions […]

Source: http://nooga.com, January 10, 2018 Officials identified Norfolk Southern as the source of the fuel spill that emptied more than 1,000 gallons of petroleum into Citico Creek near the mouth of the Tennessee River Monday night. “The spill originated from DeButts Yard and Norfolk Southern has taken responsibility for the spill and has assured city, state […]

Source: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), December 25, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com After decades of pollution that turned Onondaga Lake into a toxic cesspool, Honeywell has agreed to pay $9.5 million in damages and build 20 restoration projects. The federal Department of Justice filed documents in federal court Wednesday, but the settlement was not announced until after […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, December 21, 2017 By: Garrett D. Trego, Manko Gold Katcher & Fox A putative class of plaintiffs who allege to have lived in a defined geographic area around a manufacturing plant in Merrimack, New Hampshire, or have been served by the town’s municipal water supply, sued the manufacturer in federal court, alleging property […]

Source: https://stateimpact.npr.org, July 19, 2017 By: Susan Phillips Construction of Sunoco Pipeline’s $3 billion 350-mile long Mariner East 2 pipeline resulted in at least 61 drilling mud spills from April 25 through June 17, 2017, according to newly released documents. The spills have occurred in ten of the 12 counties along the route and range […]

Source: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com, July 18, 2017 By: Ian Bush A week after Sunoco agreed to address concerns that its pipeline construction was tainting well water in one Chester County community, two new problems have cropped up — this time, in part of Media, Delaware County. Its plastic barrier and hay bales, are no match for the deluge along […]

Source: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com, January 3, 2018 By: Jim Melwert The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has ordered all construction work to be halted on the $2.5 billion natural gas pipeline that runs from western Pennsylvania to Delaware County’s Marcus Hook. A 24-page report from DEP cites numerous permit violations by Sunoco on the Mariner East 2 pipeline and […]

Source: http://www.advisen.com, December 17, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Sixteen former and current residents of one of Los Angeles’ largest apartment complexes have won a $3.5-million verdict over an infestation of bedbugs in their units, according to their lawyer. Park La Brea Apartments, a sprawling complex with more than 4,000 units in the Miracle Mile District, […]

Source: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com, December 20, 2017 By: Jim Haddadin Utility provider Eversource will pay the town $500,000 to settle claims it failed to clean up a polluted Southside property it acquired nearly a decade ago. Selectmen voted during a closed-door meeting Tuesday to accept the company’s settlement offer, which also requires Eversource to clean up lingering […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, December 20, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com This article was originally published in the North Carolina Association of Launderers and Cleaners’ carolina clean magazine, Holiday 2017 issue. To view the original publication, click here. OK, OK, I get it: your mother didn’t raise you to be a lawyer. But the exposure to environmental claims […]

Source: http://www.nwitimes.com, December 18, 2017 By: Sarah Reese The U.S Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it issued two unilateral administrative orders to six companies to clean up soil and indoor dust at the USS Lead Superfund site. The soil cleanup ordered for zone 2 — the second of three residential cleanup areas at the Superfund site […]

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com, December 18, 2017 By: Craig Lyons The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered companies blamed for contamination in East Chicago to take over the cleanup of part of the Calumet neighborhood. The EPA on Monday announced it filed two unilateral administrative orders against six companies held responsible for the contamination in East Chicago’s Calumet neighborhood, which […]