Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN), September 24, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com An Alabama water utility is suing North Georgia’s carpet manufacturers, saying they polluted the Conasauga and Coosa rivers with toxic chemicals that have undermined the quality of drinking supplies and encouraged many customers to switch to bottled water. The Gadsden Water Works and […]

Source: http://www.annistonstar.com, September 23, 2016 By: Zach Tyler The Alabama Department of Environmental Management on Friday announced a New Jersey-based company has filed a plan to clean up the remaining residue of an underground gasoline leak at an Oxford convenience store. The cleanup and monitoring of earth beneath the Texaco-branded Expressmart may continue for the […]

Source: http://www.dailyuw.com, September 26, 2016 By: Brendan Gerrity Following four infections and two deaths at the hospital’s Cascade Tower, the UW Medical Center (UWMC) has been straining to recover from and prevent further infections by the Legionella bacterium. The bacteria, which causes Legionnaires’ disease (a form of pneumonia), has so far been found in a […]

Source: http://www.denverpost.com, September 23, 2016 By: Kirk Mitchell Class-action certification sought by residents of Fountain, Security and Colorado Springs Nine residents of Fountain, Security and Colorado Springs with elevated levels of cancer-causing chemicals in their blood have sued The 3M Corporation and various manufacturers that produced and sold firefighting foams they claim has leached cancer-causing […]

Source: http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org, September 24, 2016 By: Lisa Sorg For more than 10 years, it has been forbidden to eat a single fish from Brier Creek Reservoir in Wake County. Areas downstream, such as Brier Creek and Little Brier Creek, were also off-limits. That prohibition extended for nearly 30 miles southwest, to Crabtree Creek, Lake Crabtree, […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 21, 2016 By: Laurie J. Sands, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP In a recent case, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection v. Trainer Custom Chemical, —- F. Supp. 3rd — (2016), 2016 WL 4525451, the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania found that a current owner of […]

Source: http://www.crainsdetroit.com, September 19, 2016 By: Saulius Mikalonis “Because lead-based paint is the most important source of lead exposure for young children, the first essential element of primary prevention is implementation of strategies to control lead paint-contaminated house dust and soil and poorly maintained lead paint in housing.” — Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young Children, […]

Source: http://propertycasualtyfocus.com, September 216, 2016 By: Daniel G. Enriquez and Robert D. Helfand As this blog has reported, a line of cases deciding coverage disputes over faulty workmanship runs against (or, at least, around) a basic rule for interpreting insurance policies.  Under that rule, the scope of coverage is determined by a policy’s insuring clause, which […]

Source: http://news.wabe.org, September 21, 2016 By: Molly Samuel In Alabama, the clean-up near the Cahaba River south of Birmingham continues, following the pipeline leak that lead to Atlanta’s gas shortage. The effects on the environmentally-sensitive area could have been worse, said David Butler, riverkeeper of the Cahaba Riverkeeper organization. Most of the hundreds of thousands […]

Source: http://www.renewalredevelopment.com, August 2016 By: Kasey Jones As urban revitalization proceeds at a steady pace and construction prices continue to escalate in cities where vacant parcels are all but nonexistent, many property owners and developers are finding that substantial profits can be made through major renovations of existing buildings. Renovation starts in some cities are […]

Source: http://www.philly.com, September 20, 2016 By: Jan Hefler The New Jersey Supreme Court has denied an appeal filed to force two government agencies to contribute to a medical-monitoring fund for the nearly 100 children who were exposed to toxic mercury vapors at their day-care center, Kiddie Kollege, more than a decade ago. The court last […]

Source: http://www.browndailyherald.com, September 20, 2016 By: Kyle Borowski Oxygenating chemical MTBE, discovered in water, makes supply undrinkable The state of Rhode Island filed suit against 34 oil-producing companies Sept. 6, arguing that the entities contributed to extensive contamination of the chemical MTBE — methyl tertiary butyl ether — in groundwater across the state. MTBE is […]