Source: San Mateo County Times (CA), November 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Sausage maker Columbus Foods Inc. has settled a lawsuit filed by its neighbor Genentech over a large-scale noxious ammonia leak in South San Francisco that sickened nearly three dozen of the biotech giant’s employees in 2009. According to a statement from Genentech, the […]

Read here about a blueberry grower in Maine who has been cited for dumping blueberry waste into a river.

Source: Kansas City Star, October 27, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com As if Joplin weren’t already facing a massive rebuilding task, the city now must deal with significant and costly lead contamination stirred up by the May 22 tornado and its after-effects. City officials estimate that it could cost as much as $7.5 million to clean […]

Source: http://www.foxnews.com, October 27, 2011 Hundreds of students in Maryland will get a crash course in water-borne living when they are moved onto a cruise ship this weekend to escape the mold that has overtaken their college dorm rooms. The students from St. Mary’s College are being forced off-campus by wet weather that has dogged […]

Source: http://missoulian.com, October 24, 2011 By: Jenna Cederberg The Bonner Milltown Community Council has joined a chorus of worry over a revised cleanup plan that would leave almost three acres of contaminated soil on the old Stimson Lumber Co. sawmill site in Bonner. The state Department of Environmental Quality has accepted a revision to Stimson’s […]

Source: http://www.riskandinsurance.com, October 15, 2011 By: Rob Hughes For engineers and construction professionals, Marcellus Shale presents enticing opportunities, but firms need to weigh risks and seek the advice of a broker as pollution liability insurance policies differ by carrier. As engineering firms and construction professionals seek to capitalize on opportunities presented by the growing number […]

Source: http://www.toledoblade.com, October 16, 2011 By: Nolan Rosenkrans A group of West Toledo residents has filed a class-action lawsuit against a contractor and an engineering firm they claim caused water and sewage damage to their homes and businesses during an August storm. The case, filed Friday in Lucas County Common Pleas Court by more than […]

Source: http://www.delmarvanow.com, October 22, 2011 By: Sarah Lake As a jury trial for the city’s lawsuit regarding its faulty wastewater treatment plant approaches, the roster of defendants is growing. O’Brien & Gere, the company that designed the plant, and Construction Dynamics Group Inc., the project’s construction manager, have filed complaints that will pull a total […]

Source: http://www.riskandinsurance.com, October 15, 2011 By: Mitch Cohen, New Day Underwriting Managers Building information modeling technology eases the interaction between the owner, the design team and the general contractor, and that can raise the risk of higher professional liability exposures. In this tough economic environment, project owners are continually seeking the best methods for leveraging […]

Read here about a Nebraska contractor being sued by nuns after a mold outbreak at their monastery.

Source: Ecology, Environment & Conservation, October 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com In July, it was reported in the Marin Independent Journal that former business owners of a retail store filed a lawsuit against their past landlords in Fairfax, California. The suit alleges that the property owners knew of improperly disposed of perchloroethylene at the shopping […]

Read here about the EPA’s plans to increase regulation of the natural gas extraction industry.