Source: Rockhill Environmental/NECC Newsletter An environmental consultant has hired to perform Phase I/Phase II environmental site assessments for a prospective commercial property seller. Following the purchase of the property, a suit was filed by the buyer against the consultant alleging they negligently prepared the site assessments. The suit alleged the assessments were negligently prepared and misleading […]

Source: The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2012 By: Josh Barbanel The problem of mold—that furry, slimy or powdery substance that grows in damp places—just got a lot more dangerous, at least for landlords and co-op and condo boards in New York. Four years ago, a key appellate court decision in Manhattan blocked millions of […]

Source: http://chicago.cbslocal.com, March 30, 2012 Just a few months after opening its new main hospital building with much fanfare, Rush University Medical Center is suing the architect and engineer that developed it. As WBBM Newsradio’s Kris Kridel reports, the hospital is suing its architectural firm, Perkins & Will, and its engineering firm, Environmental Systems Design, Crain’s […]

Source: http://www.lowellsun.com, March 29, 2012 By Chris Camire Four companies face fines as high as $80,000 for improperly disposing of asbestos from the former Sun newspaper building in downtown Lowell. The civil penalties were announced by Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday. According to the complaint filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court, JDL Inc. of Dracut, and […]

Source: Constructor Magazine, March 20, 2012 By: Jeff Slivka, Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer Even though the professional liability marketplace has expanded greatly in recent years, construction project owners still have few cost-effective alternatives offered on a project-specific basis. The first and most recognized options insure only the design team and will add the owner […]

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Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 30, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The seven municipalities that banded together in recent weeks in opposition to the state’s Marcellus Shale gas drilling law filed a suit Thursday, arguing that lawmakers unconstitutionally intruded on local zoning duties by mandating where drilling can occur. The municipalities — Cecil, Peters, Mount Pleasant and […]

Source: Glendale News-Press (CA), April 1, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Despite efforts to stop it, the chemical Chromium 6 has been seeping into Glendale groundwater for years at the site of a defunct plating company. By early next month, that will start to change. Ralphs Grocery Co. plans to finalize the purchase of the nearly 1-acre […]

Source: The State, Columbia, SC, April 1, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A federal jury on Friday ordered the owner of a huge landfill in Lee County to pay $2.3 million in damages to six Bishopville area residents for causing a stench they say has made life miserable for them. The jury award against a division […]

Source: Dallas Morning News, March 31, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Environmental Protection Agency, which made national headlines in December 2010 when it ordered natural gas driller Range Resources to clean up pollution in Parker County drinking water, has dropped its case against the company. In exchange, Range agreed to monitor groundwater around the alleged […]

Source: Courthouse News Service, March 15, 2012 By: Joe Celentino An insurance company can use the “pollution exclusion” to disclaim a Chicago suburb that circulated water from a contaminated well, the 7th Circuit ruled. The village of Crestwood is an 11,000-resident suburb of Chicago. Around 1985, the mayor and other village officials learned that one […]

Source: The Advocate, March 19, 2012 By: Michelle Millhollon The Jindal administration is trying to broker a compromise between landowners and the oil and gas industry on legislation involving what are known as “legacy lawsuits.”” At issue is how to resolve often decades-old pollution caused by oil and gas drilling. The oil and gas industry […]