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 […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, December 5, 2012 By: Andrea Wells After four years of one of the most challenging construction markets, construction insurance experts are beginning to see signs of a slow recovery with some of their contractor and builder accounts. The current opportunities are in apartment buildings, energy facilities, education, hospitals and other healthcare-related facilities. When […]

Source: New York Times Online, November 29, 2012 Posted on: http://specialfpn1.advisen.com The number of cold-exposure cases in New York City tripled in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy struck compared with the same period in previous years, the health department reported in an alert to thousands of doctors and other health care providers on Wednesday. And […]

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA), December 1, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Environmental groups are seeking to force state officials to implement strict rules for farm water runoff with a lawsuit filed Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court. The lawsuit alleges the state Water Resources Control Board acted unlawfully when, in September, it delayed reporting and monitoring […]

Read here a about closing arguments that have been made in a Maryland Poultry suit.  

Source: The State, Columbia, SC, December 2, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Cooking was easy until Peggy Wise learned that toxins were polluting her family’s water supply. Soon after the discovery two years ago near Pelion, state regulators installed a filter system under her kitchen sink to provide clean drinking water. But the system is limited […]

Read here about a Nebraska company that has agreed to pay a half million dollars to help cover environmental cleanup costs.  

Source: Maryland Gazette, December 1, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owners of a tire dump in Crownsville face as much as $32 million in civil penalties after the Maryland Department of the Environment filed an injunction to get the dump cleaned up. Maryland’s attorney general filed a request on Nov. 19 in Anne Arundel County […]

Source: http://www.ohio.com, December 9, 2012 By: Bob Downing KENSINGTON: The hill tops in southwest Columbiana County off state Route 644 are under attack. Construction equipment is turning a former farm two miles east of Kensington into a natural gas-processing facility that is to open by next May. It is mostly a ground-clearing operation in Hanover […]