Source: http://www.agriculture.com, February 10, 2015 By: Daniel Looker When Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey joined about 80 growers and staffers at the Crop Production Services meeting in Wall Lake, Iowa Tuesday, he was at ground zero of what he called “this little lawsuit thing that’s out there” —the Des Moines Water Works notification that […]

Source: http://www.globest.com, February 10, 2015 By: John Insall With the retail industry going through a lot of flux these days, many shopping centers have been, and continue to be, targets for acquisition, redevelopment or repositioning.  Because many shopping centers have had a dry-cleaner tenant on site at one point or another, releases of perchloreoethylene (PCE) […]

Source: http://ksmu.org, February 10, 2015 By: Scott Harvey Springfield and Kansas City will receive more than $38 million to clean up contaminated soil and water as part of record national environmental bankruptcy settlement. Attorney General Chris Koster made the announcement Tuesday morning from the former Kerr-McGee plant in northwest Springfield. From 1907-2003, the site was […]

Source: http://insurancenewsnet.com, February 9, 2015 By: Randy Ellis Representatives of contractors who did renovation work on Oklahoma State University’s football stadium agreed to pay $700,000 to settle a lawsuit over plumbing system failures that caused sewage stench to permeate the locker room four years ago. The university’s insurers paid for the initial repairs. Money from […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 5, 2015 By: Richard C. Bennett, Cozen O’Connor In Travco Ins. Co. v. Ward, 284 Va. 547, 736 S.E.2d 321 (2012), the Virginia Supreme Court held that loss occasioned by the sulfuric gas released by defective Chinese drywall was excluded under the primary coverage grant of a property policy because of exclusions […]

Source: http://xlgroup.com As 2015 begins, the outlook for the commercial real estate industry looks strong with interest rates continuing to be favorable. The volume of real estate transactions is expected to continue where it left off in 2014.  Property buyers, developers, and real estate managers will continue to compete for prized properties at highly valued […]

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com, February 4, 2015 By: Bob Seidenberg Evanston officials have called on the Nicor Gas Company to take responsibility for the contamination detected in and around James Park last year, in a heated fight now taking place between the entities in federal court over who is responsible for the cleanup. In pleadings filed Feb. […]

Source: http://www.dailyinterlake.com, February 4, 2015 By: Lynette Hintze Flathead County and state officials are closely watching an increase in groundwater contamination at the county landfill to determine what kind of corrective action can best address the problem. The contamination is primarily tetrachloroethylene, a carcinogenic chemical commonly used as a solvent in products such as dry-cleaning […]

Source: http://www.vancouversun.com, February 2, 2015 By Vaughn Palmer ‘Remember, if they lose the dam, the mine can’t operate anyways’ The ill-fated tailings dam at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley mine was an improvised work in progress, built higher every year to hold back the growing volumes of water behind it. “For years, dam raising had managed […]

Source: http://www.thestreet.com, February 2, 2015 By: Resource Investing News It’s been nearly six months since the tailings storage facility (TSF) at Imperial Metals’ (TSX:III) Mount Polley copper-gold mine was breached, releasing tailings into the surrounding area. However, the public is only now receiving answers about what went wrong The Mount Polley Independent Expert Engineering and […]

Source: http://www.netnebraska.org, February 4, 2015 By: Bill Kelly An out-of-state oil company faces unexpectedly strong opposition to its plan to use an out-of-service oil well in Sioux County to dispose of the saltwater leftovers from nearby fracking operations. Late last year Colorado-based Terex Corporation requested approval for the project from the Nebraska Oil and Gas […]

Source: http://www.spokesman.com, February 4, 2015 By: Kip Hill Spokane County will pay more than $100,000 to the Environmental Protection Agency for soil testing costs at a former asbestos processing site in the West Central neighborhood. The agreement between the county and the federal government, submitted in federal court last week, requires all future construction or sales […]