Source: Daily Herald (IL), March 6, 2013 By: Harry Hitzeman St. Charles-based Aquascape has sued nine contractors, architects and construction firms for $13 million in damages after a section of a green roof at the company’s headquarters collapsed two years ago. The collapse of a 500-foot by 60-foot section of the sloped roof, which contained […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 27, 2013 By: Edward V. Walsh, III, Reed Smith LLP Proposed hydraulic fracturing legislation in Illinois, with strong bi-partisan support and the backing of Illinois Governor Quinn, would impose strict controls on fracking companies relative to most other states where fracking occurs, including chemical disclosure requirements and in the case of water […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 5, 2013 By: Joseph F. Bermudez and Jessica C. Collier, Wilson Elser Pursuant to an opinion issued by the Colorado Supreme Court (the Court) on February 25, 2013, insurance coverage may be excluded under absolute pollution exclusion clauses for both nontraditional as well as “traditional” pollution under Colorado law. Mountain States Mutual […]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com For almost 50 years, trucks drove in and out of Monmouth Petroleum in North Jersey, filling up with heating oil for home delivery. But leaks and abandoned storage tanks left the site contaminated, another spoiled property in a state filled with shuttered industrial sites. Now, a […]

Read here about power plants in Michigan that are burning tires for electricity and leading to pollution concerns.  

Source: XL Environmental eNews, March 5, 2013 Can your clients in the Food and Beverage industry afford to shut down their operations in the event of a pathogen (viral, bacterial, fungus) outbreak and its accompanying media attention? Pollution claims associated with these exposures can be costly and time consuming. In order to address these exposures, […]

Source: Nashville Post, March 4, 2013 By: Pierce Greenberg TDEC says fill material rising 30 feet has clogged stream John Rankin, the developer of the mostly vacant Braxton Condominiums in Ashland City, has been sued by the state of Tennessee for environmental damage inflicted on another property in Cheatham County. The suit filed Friday accuses […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 22, 2013 By: Andrew H. Perellis and Ilana R. Morady, Seyfarth Shaw LLP If you sell products that you no longer need that contain residual hazardous substances, and the buyer mishandles them so as to create the need for remediation, are you liable under CERCLA for having arranged for disposal of the […]

Read here about the decision by the Governor of New York to await the results of a health study determining whether or not drilling will be allowed.  

Read here about an underground oil leak in New York City that awaits cleanup.  

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com On a recent afternoon last month, a man and his dog jogged down a peaceful, winding lane in Moorestown past a row of tidy $725,000 homes that exhibited tiered fountains and stone goddesses. Not on display in the Wexford development were about 58 monitoring wells that […]

Read here about a plan in Colorado to sue over drilling bans.