Source: http://melrose.wickedlocal.com, June 2, 2016 By: Aaron Leibowitz Contamination at the building formerly occupied by Caruso’s Pizzeria has halted progress toward bringing business back to the site. According to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the site exceeds the reportable threshold for 1,2-dichloroethene, a highly flammable, colorless liquid with a sharp, harsh odor. Luigi Fusco, […]

Source: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com, June 2, 2016 By: Sammy Fretwell COLUMBIA, SC Since a power company began digging up coal ash from a leaking waste pond west of Myrtle Beach, arsenic levels have dropped dramatically in groundwater, according to an environmental group that pushed to have the ash removed. The state-owned Santee Cooper company has excavated more […]

Source: http://weartv.com, June 1, 2016 By: Jackalyn Kovac PENSACOLA, Fla. (WEAR) — The city of Pensacola wants Escambia County to pay for a contamination issue that is affecting a city park. In the last few months, the playground at Corrine Jones Park has been ripped up and replaced with construction. The city is adding a […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 31, 2016 By: Andrew H. Perellis, Patrick D. Joyce and Craig B. Simonsen, Seyfarth Shaw LLP Seyfarth Synopsis: The Eighth Circuit found that a class action could not be sustained in an environmental pollution case because “the class lacks the requisite commonality and cohesiveness to satisfy Rule 23.” In Karl Ebert v. […]

Source: https://nextcity.org, May 27, 2016 By: Jen Kinney This week, Portland is expected to become the seventh West Coast city to sue Monsanto, alleging that the corporation should be held liable for costs related to the cleanup of contaminants in Portland Harbor — though the corporation never had a manufacturing presence in Portland, nor on […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, May 26, 2016 By: Rebecca Forand An appeals court has set aside the majority of rulings against the township stemming from the case of a contaminated thermometer plant that later became a daycare center. The location was previously the Accutherm thermometer plant from 1984 to 1994 and mercury contamination concerns arose in the late 1980s. […]

Source: http://myjournalcourier.com, May 26, 2016 By: Nick Draper Jurors rejected a call for $7.5 million in damages in a precedent-setting lawsuit against a commercial hog-feeding operation, awarding nothing to those who argued their health and community were being endangered. Ten people filed the civil complaint in 2014 against the Scott County concentrated animal feeding operation […]

Source: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN), May 23, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Regulators have issued tougher rules for two pollutants found in some of Washington County’s drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new “health advisory” for the chemicals — PFOS and PFOA, both formerly manufactured by the 3M Corp. The agency slashed the […]

Source: http://www.prnewswire.com, May 25, 2016 XL Catlin’s Environmental insurance business has added new protection to its Contractor’s Professional and Pollution Legal Liability insurance to help contractors and environmental consultants protect themselves from costly mistakes. According to Matt O’Malley, President of XL Catlin’s Environmental insurance business, “Contractors of all sizes and types face professional liability exposures, […]

Source: The Sunday Dispatch, May 20, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Lawyers representing 4,300 past and present Avoca-area residents filed hundreds of pages in court documents this week arguing why they should be allowed to reactivate an environmental contamination suit in Luzerne County. The Avoca plaintiffs are appealing a February ruling by a New York federal […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 18, 2016 By: William F. Ford, Jessica E. Merrigan, Margaret H. Richards and Grant A. Harse, Lathrop & Gage LLP On May 9, 2016, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed into law the Contaminated Property Redevelopment Act (the “Act”). The goal of this Act is to allow purchasers in Kansas to acquire real […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 20, 2016 By: Kenneth M. Gorenberg, Barnes & Thornburg LLP Businesses facing asbestos or environmental claims may be encouraged by a decision from New York’s highest court earlier this month. This new decision allows the policyholder to choose which of many policy periods should initially be responsible for the policyholder’s asbestos litigation, […]