Source: Contra Costa Times (Walnut creek, CA), July 4, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The Valero oil refinery is seeking $75 million from PG&E in a federal lawsuit that blames the utility for a May 5 power outage that disrupted gasoline production for a month, damaged equipment, and showered tons of air pollution on downwind areas. […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, July 5, 2017 By: Williams Mullen If you are a design professional providing services in Virginia, or a general contractor on a public works project for the Commonwealth of Virginia, you need to know of two Virginia Supreme Court decisions in 2016. You ask why? The answer is because your current practices and […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 29, 2017 By: R. Bruce Wallace, Nexsen Pruet Recently, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina granted judgment in favor of an insurance carrier, finding the carrier did not owe a duty of defense or a duty to indemnify the insured in an underlying professional malpractice claim. In […]

Source: http://theislandnow.com, July 1, 2017 Lockheed Martin must test for radioactive materials at a Lake Success office building it owns after radium was found in soil being removed from the site, state authorities said Friday. Three of four samples from the affected truckload of soil tested positive for radium on June 27 at levels beyond […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, May 17, 2017 On April 28, 2017, the Texas Supreme Court held that landowners have a clear path to the courthouse to pursue claims against oil companies for oilfield contamination. Forrest Oil Corp., n/k/a Sabine Oil & Gas v. El Rucio Land and Cattle Co., — S.W.3d. – (Tex. 2017); Forest Oil Corp., […]

Source: http://www.meadvilletribune.com, June 29, 2017 By: Keith Gushard Crawford County has reached a financial settlement with its architectural firm for errors involving additional site work costs at the former Talon Inc. property and the county having to buy a high density file storage system for the new judicial center. County commissioners Wednesday unanimously approved an […]

Source: http://safety.blr.com, June 30, 2017 Just a month after a worker died while working in an unprotected trench, OSHA inspectors found another employee of the same Missouri plumbing contractor working in an unprotected trench at another jobsite. OSHA inspectors found that, in both cases, the contractor failed to provide basic safeguards to prevent trench collapse […]

Source: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com, June 29, 2017 Three companies will pay $8.2 million in a settlement over pollution on the St. Louis River in the Twin Ports dating back to the first half of the 20th century, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. XIK, Honeywell International Inc. and Domtar Inc. reached a settlement with the federal […]

Detailed investigation of 2012 parking garage collapse during construction at Miami Dade College.

Source: The New Orleans Advocate, June 25, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com After sending investigators into the Denka Performance Elastomer plant for five days last year to find out why it was discharging troubling amounts of chloroprene into the air, the Environmental Protection Agency has found that the LaPlace chemical manufacturer potentially violated the Clean Air […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 26, 2017 By: Matthew Jeweler, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP The Flint, Mich., water crisis returned to the news recently as criminal charges were brought against additional government employees resulting from the crisis. Meanwhile, a federal court in Pennsylvania recently issued a ruling in an insurance case that, like Flint, related to […]

Source: http://www.courierpostonline.com, June 23, 2017 By: Carly Q. Romalino Homes could be evacuated as a neighborhood littered with bits of lead-contaminated car batteries becomes a construction zone for federal cleanup crews. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicated Thursday it will move forward with cleanup of the Tempo Development at Crown Point Road and Hessian Avenue in […]