Source: http://trib.com, July 25, 2014 By: Trevor Graff The four-engine drone of the B-24 Liberator has long since faded at Casper/Natrona County International Airport. But during World War II, the Casper Army Air Field, as it was then known, served as the final stop for bomber crews training for overseas assignments in Europe. The bombers […]

Source: http://www.wandtv.com, July 25, 2014 Contaminated soil brought dozens of concerned homeowners together Thursday evening at a public meeting in Danville.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hosted the meeting, to inform certain residents that the soil on their property could be harmful and clean-up efforts are being planned. “Three neighborhood’s were investigated, said EPA representative, […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 23, 2014 By: Christopher “Kip” B. Power and Robert M. Stonestreet, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Rejects Permit Shield Defense By a published decision released on July 11, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a district court decision out of the Western District of Virginia finding that A […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 21, 2014 By: Thomas M. Contois and Erica L. Gerson, Steptoe & Johnson LLP In Wisznia Company, Inc. v. General Star Indemnity Company, No. 13-31125, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 13563 (5th Cir. July 16, 2014), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, applying Louisiana law, affirmed the trial court’s summary […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 23, 2014 By: David A. Attisani, Robert A. Kole, A. Hugh Scott, John A. Nadas and Mark D. Cahill, Choate Hall & Stewart LLP What you need to know: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, applying Texas law, held that a Total Pollution Exclusion Endorsement in a CGL Policy did not irreconcilably […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 22, 2014 By: Stanley A. Martin, Duane Morris LLP A federal appeals court recently retired, in short order, a contractor’s insurance claim arising from defective work.  The claim arose when scratches were noted on a glass storefront, shortly after installation by one sub but also after preliminary cleaning by another sub, and two […]

Source: http://louisianarecord.com, July 22, 2014 By: Anna Aguillard The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has affirmed a district court’s decision, holding a shipping company liable for recovery in an oil spill clean up case. On July 23, 2008, near New Orleans on the Mississippi River, an ocean-going tanker collided with an unmanned […]

Source: Daily News of Newburyport (MA), July 16, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com It appears that the $292 million Whittier Bridge/I-95 Improvement Project has hit a snag after a faulty concrete pour. Concrete was incorrectly poured in a support pier that rises out of the Merrimack River. Work has been ongoing to remove the problem and […]

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 21, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The white, office-style water dispenser in the corner of the kitchen says quite a bit about the unwanted lifestyle changes underway in the Minix household in West Deptford. Jeannie Minix, 55 and a vegetarian, will not be eating the tomatoes, eggplant, and other organic produce […]

Read here about cleanup of a saltwater spill in North Dakota that could take years.

Source: Times Union (Albany, NY), July 15, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The ongoing pollution cleanup of a former mercury recycling plant will continue this summer when some mercury-tainted soil will be stabilized in the ground to prevent the toxic heavy metal from leaking into groundwater and the nearby Patroon Creek. Work is expected to wrap […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 15, 2014 By: Matthew D. Stockwell, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP On June 23, 2014, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in the case Dormitory Authority of the State of New York v. Continental Casualty Company (2014 WL 2808073), a declaratory judgment action filed by a building owner against the architect’s […]