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 […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, July 25, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com (From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) Seattle has become a hotbed for cleaning up abandoned — and often contaminated — industrial sites known as brownfields and redeveloping them for office buildings, shopping centers and other uses. Such large-scale cleanups could be replicated elsewhere as local […]

Read here about a Florida Chinese drywall supplier ordered to release more information in a muli-million-dollar class action lawsuit.

Read here about a report recently released that shows that fewer chicken farms are concentrating waste.

Source: USAToday.com, July 31, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com NASA spent decades to send men to the moon, launch the space shuttles and build a laboratory in space, and now it will take a century to clean up the chemical messes left behind. Plumes of carcinogenic chemicals used in the launching of the space shuttles, Apollo […]

Source: http://www.constructionrisk.com By: J. Kent Holland, Jr. The pollution exclusion of a commercial general liability (CGL) policy was enforced to exclude coverage for injuries allegedly caused from carbon monoxide that was emitted from a propane-powered grinder that was being used to grind terrazzo floors while another contractor’s worker was working in the same area installing […]

Source: http://www.nypost.com, November 6, 2007 By: Tom Liddy Nearly 20 people were sickened in a Staten Island housing project yesterday after workers accidentally released a toxic chemical cloud while cleaning a sewage spill. One worker was in critical condition at Richmond University Hospital. Three workers were attempting to disinfect a basement in the Richmond Terrace […]