Source: The Boston Globe, May 28, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Four Massachusetts laboratory companies have collectively agreed to pay $1.75 million in penalties to settle allegations that they failed to control their emissions of hazardous air pollutants, the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley said. Under the four consent judgments, entered Tuesday along with four […]

Source: http://www.philly.com, May 29, 2014 By: Jan Hefler A New Jersey Superior Court judge has ruled the multiple owners of a thermometer factory that was turned into the Kiddie Kollege day care center without a clean-up must repay the state a total of $6.13 million for removing the contamination and demolishing the building in Franklin […]

Source: The Huron Daily Tribune (MI), May 27, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com The company the Michigan Department of Transportation contracted to perform last year’s M-53 reconstruction project in Bad Axe has less than two weeks to respond to a lawsuit that was filed by more than 20 residents who had sewage flood their basements in […]

Read here about the fight for California’s bullet train project to be be exempt from the state’s environmental review process.

Read here about a multimillion settlement reached between the State of Connecticut and 28 firms sued after water leaks, mold and construction flaws were found at University of Connecticut’s Hartford campus.

Read here about engineering errors that can cost companies thousands or millions of dollars.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 21, 2014 By: Amy B. Briggs, David B. Killalea , Stephen T. Raptis, Robert H. Shulman and Susan P. White, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Why it matters A new opinion from a divided panel of the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asks the familiar question: What is a pollutant? Reviewing […]

Source: http://www.stltoday.com, May 23, 2014 by: Blythe Bernhard Some residents near the smoldering Bridgeton Landfill say they will turn down thousands of dollars in settlement money offered to them last month for enduring foul odors from the site because the money doesn’t cover the loss to their property values and could prevent future lawsuits. Today […]

Source: http://www.journalnow.com, May 22, 2014 Duke Energy and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed a formal agreement Thursday requiring the power company to clean up the Dan River spill, put the waste in a lined landfill and reimburse the federal government for its supervision of the process. The agreement means EPA “will work with Duke […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 20, 2014 By: Jennifer J. Dotson and Anna Y. Boureiko, Reed Smith LLP On April 22, 2014, after a two-and-a-half week trial, a Dallas County Court at Law entered a final judgment on a split jury verdict awarding $2.925 million to Texas family, Bob and Lisa Parr from Decatur, against Barnett Shale […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, May 20, 2014 By: Stan Martin, Duane Morris LLP The terms of an owner-controlled insurance policy defined “occurrence” as “an accident, event, or happening, including continuous or repeated exposure to substantially the same general harmful conditions.”  A New York appellate court has held that this arguably expanded definition was still not sufficiently broad to encompass […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 19, 2014 By: Jacquelyn Burke, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP In Catlin Specialty Ins. Co. v. Am. Superconductor Corp., 12-2314-BLS1 (Mass. Super. Ct. Jan. 29, 2014),  Catlin sought a declaration of no coverage based on late notice, among other reasons. Catlin, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Georgia, issued a claims made professional liability […]