Source: Dow Jones News Service, August 3, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com –Filed settlement might help to clean up century-old pollution –Companies involved include W.R. Grace, which will pay when it exits Chapter 11 –Proposed settlement calls for $300,000 in groundwater projects and $575,000 in other fish and wildlife projects DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Massachusetts officials filed […]

Source: http://poststar.com, August 2, 2011 By: Lydia Wheeler The state has reached a settlement with the owners of a Kingsbury junkyard and the owner of a company that crushed cars at the site over environmental damage caused by pollution from the junkyard operations, the state Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday. Under the settlement, James Marro, […]

Source: Business Wire, August 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chartis has expanded NextGen Protection, a suite of environmental insurance solutions offered through its Environmental division, to further meet the needs of the project contractor. The latest product in the NextGen Protection suite is CPL ProjectProtectSM, which has been designed as a comprehensive environmental insurance solution to help […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, July 25, 2011 By: Tony Illia The future of the Las Vegas Strip’s Harmon Hotel remains clouded by competing claims over the unfinished building’s structural soundness. Released on July 11, an engineering report commissioned by owner MGM Resorts International says construction defects in the 28-story tower are “so pervasive and varied … that […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, August 1, 2011 (From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) At a time when creating jobs is one of the nation’s top priorities, most tallies agree that the recent boom in gas drilling has put more people to work in Pennsylvania. But just how many new jobs the surge has generated in […]

Read here about a construction accident in Rhode Island that caused sewage to spill into a nearby river.

Source: http://www.tampabay.com, June 30, 2009 By: Rich Shopes The agency operating the Lee Roy Selmon Crosstown Expressway approved a settlement Monday to recover nearly $75 million after an elevated section of the road collapsed during construction five years ago. The settlement, which comes nearly four years after the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority sued general engineering consultant […]

Read here about a city in Wisconsin that has agreed to pay $270,000 to settle an asbestos lawsuit.

Source: http://jg-tc.com, July 29, 2011 By: Rob Stroud The owner of a former neighborhood grocery store set for demolition has voiced concerns that a contractor hired by the city is improperly removing asbestos from there. The owner of contractor Triple A Asbestos has responded that his crews are meeting all state and federal guidelines. Their […]

Source: http://omahanewsstand.com, July 28, 2011 By: Rachael Ruybalid A groundwater contaminant at the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant wandered where it wasn’t wanted this spring. During quarterly sampling in January and April at the perimeter monitoring well 116, trichloroethene (TCE), a solvent, was discovered in amounts exceeding the federal drinking water standards. “We suspect an irrigation well […]

Source: http://www.greenwichtime.com, July 30, 2011 By: Neil Vigdor Rich Albonizio is used to calling audibles. But the head football coach at Greenwich High School might be hard-pressed to find something in the playbook for the latest challenge facing his Cardinals team. Three weeks before the start of practice, the discovery of soil contamination at a nearby […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, July 29, 2011 By: Gina Jones, Ivy Riggs Fracking: Understanding the opportunities & challenges of the latest environmental liability exposures As the pace of change continues to increase at an exponential rate, many may find it challenging to keep up with yesterday’s trendy slang, much less that of today or tomorrow. So you […]