Source: http://www.miamiherald.com, December 8, 2014 By: David Smiley The details of an estimated $6 million cleanup and construction project at Miami’s contaminated Douglas Park will be on display Tuesday during a 5 p.m. public meeting at City Hall. The 10-acre park at 2795 SW 37th Ave. has been closed for more than a year now […]

Source: http://fox11online.com, December 9, 2014 Another federal court trial has been scheduled as the U.S. government and paper companies continue litigate who will pay for Fox River cleanup. During a hearing Monday before Judge William Griesbach, a June 13, 2016, trial was set for a lawsuit filed in 2008 by Appvion (formerly Appleton Papers) and […]

Read here about a grain company in Iowa that has lost an appeal over a pollution lawsuit brought by residents nearby.

Source: http://www.freep.com, December 8, 2014 By: Keith Matheny A 5-acre former chemical burning pit is the latest focus in the decades-long cleanup of Velsicol Chemical’s toxic legacy in St. Louis, Mich. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has established a new Superfund site at the burn pit, now part of a golf course in the city […]

Source: http://www.masslive.com, December 8, 2014 By: Mary Serreze Parties in a long-simmering civil lawsuit over contaminated soil at the former Don Lia Honda site on King Street — the city’s primary highway business corridor — have reportedly agreed to settle instead of going to trial this month. The case was “reported settled to the court […]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org, December 8, 2014 By: Emily Atkin Shell Oil Co. is reportedly reconsidering its offer to pay $90 million to residents of a California town with widespread soil contamination, saying they had wanted the settlement to be kept confidential. According to a Law360 report, Shell attorney Deanne Miller told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge […]

Source: http://www.ctlawtribune.com, December 1, 2014 By: Ryan M. Suerth and Mark A. Rosenblum, The Connecticut Law Tribune Some contractors, developers are unaware that insurance covers lawsuit defense Oftentimes, insurance policyholders in the construction industry (e.g., contractors, developers, manufacturers, suppliers) fail to consider their insurance policies when a lawsuit is brought against them alleging liability arising […]

Source: http://www.dailyitem.com, December 4, 2014 By: Justin Strawser The Line Mountain School Board will receive more than $17,000 from its insurance provider to cover damages related to a heating oil leak inside a former district property, but Liberty Mutual will not be covering the costs of cleaning up the Lower Mahanoy Township Municipal Authority wastewater […]

Source: http://host.madison.com, December 2, 2014 By: Bill Novak An old contaminated gas station site in Grant County must be cleaned and made environmentally safe, according to a judgment made against the owner in a case dating back to 2000. The Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office said on Monday that Illinois resident William Davis, owner of the […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, November 25, 2014 By: Phelps Dunbar LLP The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently granted a motion for reconsideration and then withdrew and reversed its earlier opinion based upon answers to a certified question from the Texas Supreme Court in another case. The Fifth Circuit’s panel explained that it did not understand […]

Source: Wisconsin State Journal, November 29, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The spill-plagued Clear Horizons manure processing plant near Waunakee is now facing nearly 90 alleged air pollution violations on top of a slate of water pollution problems regulators want a judge to remedy. The plant’s electrical generators are belching excessive amounts of toxic formaldehyde and […]

Source: FARS News Agency, November 27, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com In QBE Ins. Corp. v. Adjo Contracting Corp. (N.Y. App. Div. 2d Dep’t Oct. 29, 2014), an intermediate appellate court in New York confronted cross-appeals involving 15 different insurers embroiled in multiple lawsuits, including consolidated class actions. The core issue of the case was whether […]