Source: The Ashland Daily Tidings (Oregon), August 24, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An insurance group that covers the Ashland Gun Club and city of Ashland is arguing that it has no responsibility to pay any damages related to lead contamination from ammunition. In a case filed in April in U.S. District Court in Medford, underwriters […]

Read here about the Walt Disney Studios in California being investigated as a possible source of groundwater contamination.

Source: The Washington Post, August 22, 2012 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com When a 43-year-old female lung transplant patient arrived at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in June 2011, the hospital’s infection control team was on high alert. The woman carried a “superbug” resistant to all but two antibiotics, and the NIH staff wanted to […]

Source: Chicago Tribune, August 21, 2012 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Three cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been linked to a downtown Chicago hotel, and public health officials and the hotel are reaching out to more than 8,000 people who stayed there to warn them of possible exposure. Guests who stayed at the Marriott Chicago Hotel at […]

Read here about a dairy farm in Minneapolis that is being sued by homeowners claiming  pollution.

Source: Connecticut Post, August 21, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Federal regulators working to detoxify the town’s decades-old Raymark Superfund site are finalizing a new proposal to address the 500-acre pool of severely polluted groundwater buried beneath about 100 homes along Housatonic Avenue. The Environmental Protection Agency is set to unveil a feasibility study sometime this […]

Source: The Ashland Daily Tidings (Oregon), August 21, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The city of Ashland may have to spend $75,500 and give up a parcel of its own land after environmental testing revealed lead shotgun pellets from the Ashland Gun Club have contaminated neighboring property. James Miller, who owns 12 rural acres between the […]

Read here about a Pennsylvania company that has been given the okay by environmental officials to resume a gas drilling procedure.

Read here about a West Virginia company that has been fine $81,000 for health and safety violations relating to asbestos removal.

Source: http://www.mysanantonio.com, August 8, 2012 By: Patrick Danner Almost four years to the day an explosion at Valero Energy Corp.’s Houston refinery led to the release of dangerous sulfur compounds, the company has sued four companies over the incident. A Valero partnership claims in lawsuit filed Thursday that the Aug. 4, 2008, incident was the […]

Source: The New York Times, August 13, 2012 By: Anthony DePalma This is not what a Superfund site is supposed to look like. There are no rusting barrels, no antifreeze-green slime oozing up from the ground. There’s just a deep bend in the serpentine Passaic River, a gaggle of pushy Canada geese and a lone […]

Source: Hunton & Williams LLP, August 8, 2012 Posted on: http://www.lexology.com In Scottsdale Insurance Company v. Morrow Valley Land Valley Company, No. 11-905, 2012 WL 1950247 (Ark. May 31, 2012), the Supreme Court of Arkansas held that a pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability insurance policy was ambiguous and, therefore, did not bar a […]