Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, Issue: June 20, 2011 By: Joanne Wojcik An architectural firm agrees to design an office building to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold certification, the second-highest level of the U.S. Green Building Council’s sustainability design scale. Meanwhile, the developer that hired the architect advertises the project as having significantly reduced operating […]

Read here about how Pennsylvania’s Health Secretary would like to create a registry to monitor health issues in areas near heavy drilling in the Marcellus Shale.

Source: http://www.weitzlux.com, May 8, 2008 Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. has secured a landmark MTBE settlement against some of the country’s biggest oil companies, which have agreed to pay $423 million in a suit involving the contamination of 153 public water systems nationally. Of the settlement, Robert Gordon of Weitz & Luxenberg said, “This is an excellent settlement on behalf […]

Read here about a Missouri lawsuit that claims tannery sludge causes tumors.

Source: Oakland Tribune, April 7, 2005 For about a year, Lupe Gaytan climbed up and down the 50-foot cofferdam ladders to weld inside the steel legs of the partially built Bay Bridge. When he started, his lungs were fine, he said, referring to a piece of paper indicating he was healthy enough to be fully […]

Source: http://www.vcstar.com, June 14, 2011 By: Kevin Clerici Environmental regulators noted in their latest findings that there is contaminated soil in a drainage canal and lagoon near the shuttered Halaco metals recycling plant at Ormond Beach in Oxnard. Like previous results from a ditch in March, the contamination levels could pose a risk to wildlife […]

Source: http://www.theday.com, June 15, 2011 By: Karen Florin Conservancy claims work was harmful to environment The excavators and wrecking balls are long gone from the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, but the demolition of dozens of homes by the New London Development Corp. is still being litigated in a city courtroom. The heavy machinery’s presence was vindicated […]

Source: http://www.businesswire.com, June 2, 2005 Mold exposure has jumped to the forefront of significant personal injury claims with a recent $925,000 award in Wayne County Circuit Court to an apartment resident. The verdict, the highest ever in Michigan for personal injury damages resulting from mold exposure, could ultimately force a new standard of liability on […]

Source: http://www.redorbit.com, February 26, 2006 By: Josh Adams, Eagle Times, Claremont, N.H. Concerns over a possible mold infestation at the Sarah Porter School in Langdon have prompted the school district to close the building for at least a portion of next week. SAU 60 Superintendent Joe Della Badia confirmed Thursday that students will attend classes at the […]

Source: The Miami Herald, February 26, 2006 By: Jennifer Babson In Key West’s crumbling City Hall annex, wires protrude from ceilings, workers have glued plywood to keep concrete beams from falling, and an air-circulation problem has given the mayor a severe case of itchy eyes. “It’s bad,” sniffled Mayor Morgan McPherson. “I’m taking steroids now.” […]

Source: http://www.allbusiness.com, September 7, 2007 By: Matthew Higbee, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport The town has sued the architectural firm that designed the middle school over a recurring moisture problem that is cracking the ground floor in several classrooms and causing mold to appear. The lawsuit, filed against Fletcher Thompson Architects in Milford Superior Court on Wednesday, […]

Source: http://www.constructionweblinks.com, April 9, 2007 By: Clark T. Thiel, Howrey LLP Although it believed the proposed settlement to be detrimental to its own pecuniary interests, an at-risk construction manager’s fiduciary responsibilities to the project owner precluded it from objecting to the terms of the settlement between the owner and design-build contractor. As an agent of […]