Source: http://jacksonville.com, October 17, 2016 By: Steve Patterson A company fighting a city lawsuit over old industrial pollution around Jacksonville’s Hogans Creek has collected $4 million from environmental insurance policies a second company says show liability, papers filed by the second company say. That second company, Houston Pipe Line, says the payments show Continental Holdings […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, October 18, 2016 By: Garret Ellison A Novi-based gas station operator must reimburse the state $100,000 and submit detailed cleanup plans for 21 sites where leaking fuel storage tanks are or threatening to pollute soil and groundwater. The judicial consent order announced this week by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality gives Knight […]

Source: http://www.thetimesherald.com, October 17, 2016 By: Liz Shepard A Port Huron gas station is making progress in removing soil contaminated by leaking underground storage tanks. “They’ve been very cooperative, they really have,” Paul Owens, DEQ district supervisor for the remediation and redevelopment division, said of the Sunrise Convenience Stores. “They’re working with us, we’ve had […]

Source: http://www.boiseweekly.com, October 13, 2016 By: Annelise Eagleton A new report from the environmental watchdog group EWG asserts too many of America’s children could be exposed to toxic chemicals in thousands of U.S. schools. The report, The ABC’s of PCBs, authored by Harvard University professor Dr. Robert Herrick, concluded that as many as 26,000 U.S. schools […]

Source: http://therealdeal.com, October 16, 2016 Without admitting fault, Saltz Michelson agreed to settle a dispute over a Broward school design A Fort Lauderdale architecture firm will pay $1.56 million to the Broward County School District to settle a dispute over the design of an elementary school. Without admitting any fault, Saltz Michelson Architects agreed to […]

Source: http://www.reporternewspapers.net, October 14, 2016 By: John Ruch A possible buyer for North Springs Center at 7300 Roswell Road is working on a pollution cleanup deal that could speed the 9-acre shopping center’s redevelopment, according to the state Environmental Protection Division. The shopping center’s owner, North Springs Associates, has been working for a year to […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, October 11, 2016 By: Andrew Dodson More than $1 million in work to stabilize a multi-million dollar condominium project began this week, more than a year after a lawsuit alleging the building  had extensive construction defects was dismissed. In March 2014, 19 residents of the Boathouse Condominiums, 1111 N. Water St., in downtown […]

Source: http://www.mlive.com, September 15, 2014 By: Cole Waterman Nineteen residents of a riverfront condominium complex in downtown Bay City are suing the various businesses that envisioned and constructed their abodes, claiming the structure is rife with defects. The residents of the Boathouse Condominiums at 1111 N. Water St. — Dan Blossom, Kris Blossom, Elizabeth Cooley, Carl Cooper, […]

Source: http://www.constructiondive.com, October 12, 2016 By: Kim Slowey Dive Brief: A federal judge has dismissed Hensel Phelps Construction Co.’s design-flaw lawsuit against Cooper Carry, the architect for the Marriott Marquis project in Washington, DC, because the contractor’s legal action did not comply with prescribed time limits, according to the Washington Business Journal. U.S. District Court […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 9, 2016 By: Heidi Hudson Raschke A recent article in the Sports section of The Miami Herald read “Shooting coach helps Winslow.” Perhaps, but it probably didn’t help the coach much. The admonition to “eat every carrot and pea on your plate” undoubtedly elicits laughs from the children to whom it is […]

Source: http://www.thehour.com, October 12, 2016 By: Emilie Munson Five years after the discovery of PCBs and other contaminants in the ground at Greenwich High School, much remediation work has been completed, but a long and expensive path to clean soil remains. With no timeline for finishing in sight, Greenwich’s Public Works Director Amy Siebert said […]

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