Source: Reuters, October 7, 2014 Posted on: http://news.yahoo.com Pennsylvania environmental regulators on Tuesday sought a record $4.5 million penalty from EQT Corp, a natural gas producer, for damage caused by the release of fracking fluids from a gas drilling site in the Marcellus region. The production of shale gas using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, technology […]

Source: Staten Island Advance (NY), October 4, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com Asbestos problems at the controversial Mount Manresa project have led to $67,400 in city violations, and GOP Borough President James Oddo wants the city Department of Investigation to step in. Gaspare Santoro, the engineer who said that the six buildings on the site scheduled […]

Source: Foster’s Daily Democrat (Dover, NH), October 4, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com As lawyers and insurance companies work to determine responsibility for the Aug. 13 sewer backup that damaged two downtown restaurants, a few paragraphs in a 40-page development agreement could shield the city from liability. The city and First Street at Garrison LLC signed […]

Source: BNamericas, October 3, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com Mexico City’s faulty No. 12 metro line was designed and built incorrectly, according to an investigation into the events that led to the line’s closure in March. “The line was put into operation with the wrong trains on the wrong rails along the wrong route,” said Slobodan […]

Source: http://www.record-eagle.com, October 6, 2014 By: Brian McGillivary The contractor hired to remove the Brown Bridge Dam will pay $300,000 to resolve environmental claims from homeowners and help restore the Boardman River from damage caused when the dam breached. Molon Excavating Inc. will pay $120,000 to downstream property owners to cover the cost of removing […]

Source: http://citizensvoice.com, October 7, 2014 By: Bob Kalinowski Salem Township on Monday filed a lawsuit against former township engineer Michael Pasonick claiming a sewer project his firm designed is deeply flawed and will cost at least $1 million to repair. The municipality’s lawsuit claimed the project, designed and overseen by Pasonick, was plagued with nearly […]

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Source: http://www.nhregister.com, October 1, 2014 By: Luther Turmelle The Coast Guard is preparing for an environmental cleanup inside the former English Station power plant after oil from the facility apparently went into the Mill River last month. The Coast Guard was contacted Sept. 15 by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection after several […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, October 2, 2014 By: Meghan Grant The Attorney General’s and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) offices announced that Occidental Chemical Corp., identified by the state as a principal defendant, has agreed to pay New Jersey $190 million to resolve its liability for cleaning up the Passaic River. The settlement comes on the tail […]

Source: http://www.stites.com By: Stephen M. Reams, Stites & Harbison Client Alert Florida enacted legislation making limitation of liability clauses for design professionals enforceable when certain conditions are met.  The new law, passed last year, reverses the decision of a Florida appellate court that ruled in 2010 that any limitation of liability clause purporting to limit […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 30, 2014 By: Kevin Kamraczewski and Megan E. Whitehill, Cozen O’Connor In interpreting the scope of the pollution exclusion, one question seems to appear in case after case — what exactly does the pollution exclusion exclude? In State Farm Fire & Casualty Company v. Dantzler, 289 Neb. 1 (2014), the Supreme Court of […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 29, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The state Department of Environmental Protection might have used incomplete and inaccurate test information to decide whether chemicals leaking from a Marcellus Shale wastewater impoundment and a drill cuttings pit contaminated a water well and springs in Washington County. The disclosures came last week during sworn […]