Source: Modern Contractor Solutions, February 2013 By: Jeff Slivka, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC Green has become the new mantra for the construction industry. As a result, contractors nationwide are increasingly striving to meet owner demands for projects that are not only designed with sustainable and eco-friendly products, but also achieve measurable results such as […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, March 12, 2013 By: Andrea Cortland, Cozen O’Connor On February 15, 2013 a Pennsylvania federal district court held that the shipment of defective drywall from China to the United States constituted one “occurrence” for purposes of insurance coverage, and the occurrence took place when the damage caused by the drywall manifested itself in […]

Source: Xinhua News Agency (China), March 13, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A pig farm in Jiaxing City, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Wednesday confessed to dumping dead pigs into the Huangpu River, local authorities said. The admission came after a preliminary investigation traced the birthplace of some of the dead pigs found in a section […]

Read here about a painting company in St. Louis that has been fined for not taking precautions with lead-based paint.  

Read here about the owner of an aircraft painting company who pleaded guilty to hazardous waste violations.  

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 12, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Authorities in Shanghai late Tuesday appealed for calm as they acknowledged finding far more dead pigs in local rivers than earlier indicated and laid blame for the gruesome waterway disposal on careless farmers in a neighboring Chinese province. In its latest estimate, the Shanghai […]

Source: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 9, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An engineering group that influences building codes nationwide is drafting tough new standards to prevent Legionella, the waterborne bacteria blamed in a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Pittsburgh. Federal estimates show Legionnaires’, a form of pneumonia, kills more than 4,000 people and sickens about 21,000 […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 11, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chinese authorities said they found more than 3,300 dead pigs in a river that supplies water to Shanghai, a stark illustration of China’s problems with environmental pollution. Health and agricultural authorities in Shanghai said on Monday they were investigating any potential health impact from […]

Source: Buffalo News, March 11, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Nearly one-third of the people who recently applied to join a Love Canal lawsuit no longer live in Niagara Falls. And at least one of those people, according to a Buffalo News analysis of court records, never did live in the Love Canal neighborhood. “I anticipate […]

Source: http://www.enewspf.com, March 7, 2013 Corporate owners of dirty coal plant face hundreds of millions in potential fines and upgrades Corporate owners of one of the largest and most polluting coal plants in the nation, Colstrip Generating Facility located in Montana, landed in federal court today for what the Sierra Club and the Montana Environmental […]

Read here about a community in Pennsylvania that is worried about bad water and claim it’s the result of drilling for natural gas.

Source: http:/morris.patch.com, March 11, 2013 By: Jake Remaly Contractors replaced after fines from state, developer says. Contractors who were removing asbestos from buildings at the former Pfizer property on Route 53 in Morris Plains had to be pulled from the project because of “fines levied by the NJ Department of Labor for violations during asbestos […]