Read here about the debate over whether gas drilling is safe or dangerous.  

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 1, 2012 By: William A. Ruskin, Epstein Becker Green There is a significant risk that there will be a resurgence of mold claims and mold litigation in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Sandy left behind thousands of homes and offices in New York and New Jersey with flood-soaked flooring and sheet rock […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 8, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A state appellate court ordered a Washington County court Friday to consider hearing arguments to unseal records in a case in which a Washington County family claimed it was harmed by nearby gas drilling. Stephanie and Chris Hallowich sued Range Resources, MarkWest Energy Partners and Williams […]

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 7, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Paulsboro woman has filed a $10 million lawsuit against Conrail and its parent companies because of the train derailment that released a toxic chemical into the air and water. Alice Breeman filed the suit in federal district court in Camden, seeking more than $150,000 […]

Source: Asbury Park Press (NJ), December 4, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The pile of storm debris loomed nearly two stories high in Sea Bright. Cranes worked through the afternoon one Sunday to sort the sodden, moldy refuse. A month after superstorm Sandy flooded homes along the New Jersey Shore, piles of destroyed appliances and mud-soaked […]

Read here about a Chinese drywall supplier in New Orleans that has been cleared in a lawsuit.

Source: Odessa American, Texas, December 5, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A man injured in an oil spill on North Loop 250 in Midland has requested to join an environmental lawsuit filed by Ector County against Monahans-based Quell Petroleum. In response to that request, Quell Petroleum filed a motion to transfer the personal injury case and […]

Read here about obstacles that will likely delay drilling until late in 2013.

Source: http://www.lexology.com By: Steven M. Siros, Jenner & Block On November 21, 2012, a federal district court in Wisconsin rejected PRP efforts to seek modification of the remedial plan established by U.S. EPA and the State of Wisconsin to address PCB-contaminated sediments in the Fox River. In 2010, U.S. EPA and the State of Wisconsin […]

Source: http://www.dothaneagle.com, December 3, 2012 By: Lance Griffin Dothan commissioners are expected to approve a $150,000 out-of-court settlement with a contractor that claims faulty information provided by another city contractor forced it to spend more money than anticipated during a recent sewer line project. B and B Underground Contractors of Haleyville claims it was forced […]

Source: http://www.equities.com, December 4, 2012 By: Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal One hundred fifty families in Washington County are seeking compensation for property, health and emotional damage from the owner and operator of a fuel pipeline that spilled gasoline July 17 in a farm pasture in the Town of Jackson. In a lawsuit filed Monday […]

Source: South Florida Business Journal, December 4, 2012 By: Paul Brinkmann One of South Florida’s best-known plaintiffs firms, Coral Gables-based Colson Hicks Eidson, is among the first to handle a lawsuit connected to the Oct. 10 Miami Dade College parking garage collapse in Doral. Colson Hicks attorney Ervin Gonzalez, is representing Migdalia Lopez, widow of […]