Source: http://www.spiegel.de, August 12, 2013 By: Frank Patalong The 47-story luxury In Tempo tower in Benidorm, Spain was hyped as the tallest residential building in the European Union. Now a series of construction snafus — including an inadequate elevator shaft — have turned it into a national embarrassment. It should have been the pride of […]

Source: Insurance Journal, August 8, 2013 Zurich has revised its Z Choice fixed facility environmental liability suite of products to include built in coverage features such as emergency expenses and crisis management. The new form provides for increased usability and customization to meet insureds’ needs and requirements in an ever changing legal and regulatory marketplace. […]

Source: http://www.enewspf.com, August 7, 2013 If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern Pennsylvania might have spent each day of the past three years dumping up to 500,000 gallons of untreated natural gas drilling wastewater into the Monongahela River. Instead, the plant has not discharged a […]

Source: http://articles.philly.com, August 8, 2013 By: Jessica Parks The Cheltenham Township School District is dealing with mold in the middle school and lead paint in an elementary school that could delay the start of the academic year. Summer maintenance crews discovered “a significant presence of mold” at Cedarbrook Middle School in July, Superintendent Natalie Thomas […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 3, 2013 By: Andrew B. Downs, Bullivant Houser Bailey PC This is the second in a series of posts on issues arising under professional liability policies. The aim of this series is to provide sufficient background information to allow the defense attorney to identify relevant issues frequently raised by professional liability policies […]

Source: http://www.cantonrep.com, August 6, 2013 By: Kelli Young More than a decade after the Stark County Health Department closed a troubled landfill in Osnaburg Township, the landfill’s owners will repay a portion of the cost to cap, clean and monitor the shuttered facility. In a consent order filed Tuesday in Stark County Common Pleas Court, […]

Source: http://www.rrstar.com, August 6, 2013 By: Kevin Haas A group of residents that live near the Winnebago Landfill has filed a lawsuit that says the company failed to control landfill gases and its noxious fumes. Multiple plaintiffs from 70 households are listed in the suit filed Monday in the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Winnebago […]

Read here about a dairy in California that has been fined for polluting groundwater.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 23, 2013 By: William R. Wildman and Kent W. Collier, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP The highest court in Georgia has recently added that jurisdiction to the growing list that considers defective construction, including defects in the work of a general contractor, to be an “occurrence” under the general contractor’s commercial general […]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 5, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The fast-growing sand mining industry is grappling with a rising number of environmental problems across western Wisconsin. Many of the cases involve water pollution — where vast piles of sand, sediment and dirt have washed off properties, often after heavy rains, and contaminated waterways. Since […]

Source: Targeted News Service, August 2, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., issued the following news release: On the eve of the one-year anniversary of Texas Brine’s failed salt cavern in Bayou Corne, Governor Bobby Jindal and Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced today that the State of Louisiana is filing suit against Texas […]

Source: The Columbus Dispatch, August 5, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Minutes after Debby Kline flicked a lighter near a bathroom sink in her Portage County house in northeastern Ohio, she called the fire department. A sink-to-ceiling flare erupted when she tried to light a candle on Dec. 21, she told a TV news show. State […]