Source: http://knoxblogs.com, April 25, 2016 News release from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ATLANTA — The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that OXY USA Inc., a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Company, has agreed to clean up contaminated water and sediments in the Ocoee River and one of its […]

Source: http://www.buffalonews.com, April 25, 2016 By: Harold McNeil Developer wants town to sign off on plans The developer of the former Westwood Country Club golf course has said it intends to spend $238 million to turn the land into single-family homes, townhouses and business properties. Before it can proceed with those plans, however, Mensch Capital […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, April 25, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Officials in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York are expanding their efforts to find out how much of a potentially toxic chemical ended up in drinking water, from private wells to public water systems. Factories for decades used the chemical, perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA, […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, April 22, 2016 By: David Beck, Pillsbury – Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real Estate Law The recent decision of Allied Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Metro North Condominium Associates highlights why only a minority of jurisdictions still hold to the fiction that construction defects cannot give rise to an “occurrence” covered under a […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 21, 2016 By: John R. Lockard, Vandeventer Black LLP The Supreme Court of Virginia recently addressed construction contractors’ potential liability for damages caused by design defects. In William H. Gordon Associates, Inc. v. Heritage Fellowship Church, a church hired an engineering firm to design a rain tank system to provide storm water […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 12, 2016 By: Corey N. Giroux, Strang, Scott, Giroux & Young, LLP New Hampshire has enacted a dispute resolution statute for residential construction defect claims made by homeowners that, among other things, provides contractors notice and opportunity to resolve alleged construction defects prior to a disgruntled owner instituting litigation against them. Despite […]

Source: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com, April 25, 2016 The global slump in commodities, marked by low prices of raw materials like lead and copper, is leading to old electronics being dumped and e-recycling companies improperly disposing of them, NBC News reported. A Kentucky company was caught last year burying old TVs and other electronics devices in a 10-foot-deep […]

Source: http://newschannel9.com, April 22, 2016 The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that OXY USA Inc., a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Company, has agreed to clean up contaminated water and sediments in the Ocoee River and one of its watersheds at the Copper Basin Mining District Superfund Site […]

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 […]