Source: http://yaledailynews.com, April 22, 2016 By: David Yaffe-Bellany When Luying Liu GRD ’21 noticed brown blotches on her bed sheets, she told herself not to panic. “I was doing a lot of other stuff at the time and tried to get my mind off it,” Liu said. But the blotches — dried blood from the […]

Source: http://www.omaha.com, April 22, 2016 By: Emily Nitcher Bill Vance’s house slippers were wet. It was the 74-year-old Bellevue man’s first indication, on Feb. 29, that something was wrong in the basement of his home on Hancock Street. Next came the smell. Two to three inches of murky brown water, including some human waste, had […]

Source: http://www.lexology.comm, April 21, 2016 By: Thomas C. Blatchley, Gordon & Rees LLP The South Carolina Court of Appeals recently held that a state-run insurance company owed no defense to a county public service district for offensive odors emanating from a sewage valve based on the policy’s pollution exclusion. The decision in S.C. Ins. Reserve […]

Source: http://www.baltimoresun.com, April 21, 2016 By: Pamela Wood More than a century of steelmaking at Sparrows Point has left contaminants in Bear Creek that pose a slight health risk to humans, according to a new report presented to the public Thursday night. As part of the ongoing cleanup of the former steel mill in southeastern […]

Source: http://mynewsla.com, April 20, 2016 By: Hillary Jackson Federal environmental regulators announced that 66 companies will collectively spend about $78 million to clean up contaminated groundwater at the Omega Chemical Corp. Superfund site in Whittier. The settlement requires the companies to spend $70 million to install wells and operate a groundwater treatment system in the […]

Source: http://www.newsandtribune.com, April 19, 2016 By: Elizabeth Beilman Board still hoping to receive $1 mil back for environmental policy An ongoing fight for reimbursement of $1 million worth of environmental insurance between the River Ridge Development Authority and the U.S. Army is not over. Last month, the U.S. Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals granted […]

Source: http://www.reporternewspapers.net, April 29, 2016 By: John Ruch A 9-acre shopping center at 7300 Roswell Road in Sandy Springs will hit the market for some type of redevelopment, according to its property manager. But first, the owners are dealing with a former dry cleaner’s chemical pollution, which the state worries may be entering nearby homes […]

Source: http://www.denverpost.com, April 20. 2016 By: Kirk Mitchell Coca Mines has agreed to pay a $6 million settlement to federal and state environmental regulators for expenses linked to hazardous waste cleanup costs near Creede. The Environmental Protection Agency had sued Coca Mines Inc. for cleanup of hazardous substances in the Nelson Tunnel and the Commodore […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 18, 2016 By: Stephen W. Kiefer, Pepper Hamilton LLP Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc. v. Rummel Klepper & Kahl, LLP, 226 Md. App. 420, 130 A.3d 1024, 2016 Md. App. LEXIS 3 ( Md. Ct. Spec. App. Jan. 28, 2016) The City of Baltimore retained a design professional, Rummel Klepper & Kahl (“RK&K”), […]

Source: Cumberland Times-News (MD), April 16, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com There is a detectable change in the quality of Garrett County’s air when winds blow toward Western Maryland from fracking operations in neighboring states, a federal researcher said Thursday. Although hydraulic fracturing of the earth to obtain natural gas is not yet allowed in Maryland, […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 12, 2016 By: Thomas C. Blatchley, Gordon & Rees LLP In a matter of first impression, the Georgia Supreme Court recently held that personal injury claims arising from lead poisoning due to lead-based paint ingestion were excluded from coverage under an absolute pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability insurance policy covering […]

Source: https://foodpoisoningbulletin.com, April 8, 2016 By: Linda Larsen A patient was sickened with Legionnaires’ Disease at the IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana last week. The illness was transmitted through the water in the hospital. The IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer said that the results were […]