Source: http://www.grahamco.com, October 20, 2014 By: James P. Marquet One of the biggest challenges that many building construction projects face is liability arising out of mold caused by water intrusion. This is especially true of elder care facilities where the occupants are more susceptible to mold exposure. As a result, lawsuits over mold are becoming […]

Source: http://www.reviewjournal.com, December 17, 2014 By: Howard Stutz Tutor Perini Corp., the general contractor behind CityCenter and a party in a massive construction defect case involving the development’s Harmon Hotel, said Wednesday it would receive “total net settlement proceeds” of approximately $189.5 million on its lien claims. None of the lawsuit parties have commented on […]

Source: Alaska Dispatch News, December 17, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Drilling mud, brine and diesel fuel spilled Monday onto a gravel pad and into a pit no longer used at the Kuparuk oil field operated by ConocoPhillips on Alaska’s North Slope, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. The spill happened when a gasket on […]

Source: http://www.reviewjournal.com, December 16, 2014 By: Carri Geer Thevenot A global settlement was announced Tuesday in the massive construction defect case involving CityCenter’s Harmon Hotel. The announcement came the day lawyers were to present opening statements at the trial, which was expected to last more than a year. District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez, who has been […]

Source: http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com, December 16, 2014 By: Eric Dietrich Homeowners adjacent to Bozeman’s Story Mill Landfill have filed suit against the city, seeking unspecified damages for what they argue is the city’s negligence in allowing “a cocktail of toxic chemicals” to migrate onto their properties from an unlined dump site that accepted municipal waste between 1969 […]

Source: Yakima Herald-Republic (WA), December 11, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Yakama Nation is suing a federal agency to recover money it says it spent helping oversee the cleanup of a contaminated Columbia River island. The case against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers focuses on the cleanup of a landfill on Bradford Island, a […]

Source: http://www.bignewsnetwork.com, December 12, 2014 The owners of a Virginia golf club have sued the state’s largest utility, accusing it of using toxic coal ash to build the facility. CPM Virginia, owners of the Battlefield Golf Club in Chesapeake, are the latest to sue Dominion Resources over the development. CPM’s claim, filed in a Virginia […]

Source: http://news.southernstudies.org, December 11, 2014 By: Sue Sturgis It’s been 10 months since a pipe broke beneath a coal ash waste pit at a shuttered Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina, sending 39,000 tons of toxic waste into the Dan River, a drinking water source for downstream communities in Virginia and North Carolina. One […]

Source: http://www.circleofblue.org, December 15, 2014 Surge in oil and gas production has seen more spills that are harming water supplies. Until two years ago, when the National Wildlife Federation pointed out their presence, the twin oil pipelines beneath the fast-flowing channel that connects Lake Michigan to Lake Huron were like nearly every other piece of […]

Source: https://atlantic2.sierraclub.org By: Karl Grossman The ECU—Environmental Crime Unit—of the Suffolk County district attorney’s office has figured prominently in major stories in the New York region in recent times. The ECU has been investigating the dumping of 50,000 tons or more of hazardous materials, including asbestos-laden debris, in Brentwood, Central Islip—two largely minority communities in […]

Source: http://www.publichealthwatchdog.com, May 8, 2014 By: Cynthia A. Diaz-Shephard Long Island, New York’s Town of Islip intends on filing lawsuits in an attempt to recover money from contractors who allegedly illegally dumped debris containing asbestos within the Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood. The contractors may be charged criminally by the Suffolk County district attorney, as […]

Source: http://newyork.cbslocal.com, May 8, 2014 Lawsuits are being prepared as the investigation into toxic dumping at a Long Island park continues. As WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs reported, police were standing guard at the gate of the now-closed Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood, after Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota said about […]