Source: http://www.denverpost.com, October 25, 2015 By: Bruce Finley Acid heavy metals contamination of waterways continues after Gold King disaster — raising concerns statewide Toxic mines hang over this haven for wildflowers, contaminating water and driving residents — like counterparts statewide — to press for better protection. A local group went to federal court this month […]

Source: http://wnpr.org, October 23, 2015 By: David Desroches Hartford’s school board and city officials filed suit on Friday against Monsanto, seeking the multinational corporation’s payment to remove toxic PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, from Clark Elementary School. “Our families and taxpayers should not have to bear the costs for this project,” said Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra […]

Source: http://hamptonroads.com, October 26, 2015 By: Sarah Kleiner Rick Ilich was at his wit’s end. His dream home in the Saddlebrook Estates neighborhood had been silently poisoning his family for years. It had been built in 2006 with toxic drywall, which filled the air with hydrogen sulfide, a dangerous gas that corrodes metal and can […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, October 21, 2015 By: Eric Cheng, Wilson Elser The recent New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease (named for a 1976 outbreak of a type of pneumonia at an American Legion convention) has raised awareness of the illness. It has also renewed the courts’ interest in interpreting the Mold Exclusion. In the recent […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, October 21, 2015 By: David M.Zimmer The local government has had to open up its checkbook once again as it works to clean up contamination on the municipal complex that dates back more than a decade. Earlier this month, West Milford’s town council approved a $32,000 contract with G Environmental GECP of Succasunna […]

Source: LaGrange Daily News (GA), October 20, 2015 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The landlord of a company fined $10 million by a federal court in August for polluting the Chattahoochee River settled a lawsuit with a regional environmental nonprofit Monday. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, a clean water advocacy group, filed suit against Roswell-based M&K Warehouses in November 2014, […]

Source: Patriot-News (Harrisburg, PA), October 20, 2015 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com When it comes to lab test results, you can’t find something you’re not looking for. The state Department of Environmental Protection uses a lab code system specifically designed to test water around oil and gas drilling sites that ensures certain contaminants that might be in […]

Source: http://www.wsbtv.com, October 19, 2015 A South Fulton County landowner, M&K Warehouses, has agreed to clean up a site where a tenant dumped toxic sludge near the Chattahoochee River. The property is located along Frederick Court just south of Interstate 20, and was rented to American Sealcoat Manufacturing at the time. Earlier this year, a […]

Source: http://www.wisbar.org, October 20, 2015 By: Deborah Spanic In a case of unintended consequences, an insurance policy endorsement on pollution was found ambiguous and summary judgment was reversed for an insurance company seeking not to provide coverage to its insured. Patrick Connors was employed at Grede Foundries in Reedsburg, Wis., when he became ill with […]

Source: http://www.natlawreview.com, October 20, 2015 By: Eric \g. Cheng, Wison Elser The recent New York City outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease (named for a 1976 outbreak of a type of pneumonia at an American Legion convention) has raised awareness of the illness. It has also renewed the courts’ interest in interpreting the Mold Exclusion. In the […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 9, 2015 By: Amy B. Briggs, Donna M. Carlton, Christine Spinella Davis, David B. Killalea, Stephen T. Raptis and Robert H. Shulman, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Why it matters: An exclusion for “Fungi or Bacteria” did not prevent a federal court judge in Tennessee from ordering an insurer to provide a defense […]

Source: http://www.asbestos.com, October 19, 2015 By: Beth Swantek Officials in Henderson, Nevada, forge ahead with plans to possibly annex and develop parts of the Eldorado Valley despite geologists’ concerns about the presence of naturally occurring asbestos in the ground. While official annexation remains delayed, city officials continue studying the proposal and negotiating with developers, Henderson […]