Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 4, 2014 By: Brian Margolies, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Lennar Mare Island v. Steadfast Ins. Co., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26405 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 28, 2014), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California had occasion to consider the relationship between a […]

Source: http://www.alaskadispatch.com, March 6, 2014 By: Dermot Cole The state filed a lawsuit Thursday against the current owner and the former owner of the North Pole refinery, seeking damages from Flint Hills and Williams for past and future cleanup costs stemming from sulfolane pollution that extends 3 miles from the refinery. It’s the latest step in […]

Source: http://www.adn.com, March 5, 2014 By: Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer A pair of 80-foot-high earthen dams, one of them built in the Eisenhower era, stand between Charlotte’s water supply and more than 5 billion pounds of coal ash. Duke Energy promises the dikes at its retired Riverbend power plant on Mountain Island Lake are […]

Source: Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), March 6, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com The contractor working at the site of Tuesday’s townhouse explosion in Ewing that killed one woman was recently fined more than $100,000 by safety regulators for problems at two other sites, records show. Blue Bell, Pa.-based Henkels & McCoy was cited last year by the […]

Source: New Haven Register (CT), March 4, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Singapore shipping company agreed to pay a $1.2 million penalty after it admitted to illegally dumping oily wastewater in international waters, the U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut said in a press release. The company, Odfjell Asia II Pte Ltd, pleaded guilty […]

Read here about a school district in Indiana that will pay a penalty for polluting a waterway.

Source: Star Tribune (MN), March 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com There are many reasons why the Minneapolis city impound lot west of downtown might be considered notorious, but as of last week, being a state Superfund site is no longer one of them. After nearly 30 years of city cleanup efforts and other improvements at […]

Read here about an oil terminal in Oregon that has violated its permit.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 26, 2014 By: David A. Baay, Rachel Giesber Clingman, Juan C. Garcia, Daniel Johnson, Sean D. Jordan and Jack Massey, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP In a significant decision issued February 24, 2014, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that federal laws preempt state laws in the case of the […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 28, 2014 By: Jeffrey O. Davis, Patrick S. Nolan and Brandon R. Gutschow, Quarles & Brady LLP As a rule, liability insurance policies contain a condition requiring timely notice of a claim against the insured, so that the insurer has an opportunity to adequately investigate and defend the claim.  A recurring issue […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 26, 2014 By: Lee C. Davis, Kent W. Collier , Matthew W. Nichols, W. Henry Parkman, Marc A. Rawls and William R. Wildman, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Georgia may soon join the growing ranks of states with broad enabling legislation for all forms of public-private partnerships (or P3). Senate Bill 255 […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 20, 2014 By: Jessica L. Duggan, Kevin P. Kamraczewski and Stephen M. Fields, Dentons After looking at numerous investment opportunities, you bite the bullet, assemble a syndicate of lenders and close on a leveraged buyout transaction resulting in control of the operating company target through the use of a holding company. You […]