Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 18, 2011 State prosecutors charged a Greene County man Thursday with illegally dumping millions of gallons of Marcellus Shale wastewater, sewer sludge and greasy restaurant slop in holes, mine shafts and waterways in a six-county region from 2003 to 2009. “He was pouring the stuff in any hole he could find,” […]

Source: http://www.ctpost.com, March 19, 2011 By: Amanda Cuda The town is suing Bridgeport-based Mark IV Construction Company for about $5.1 million, related to work done on a much-contested town sewer expansion project. The lawsuit comes a week after town First Selectman Tim Herbst announced that Trumbull’s Water Pollution Control Authority was under a federal grand […]

Read here about some Kentucky condo owners who are waiting for ruling over poor construction on their homes.

Source: Tampa Bay Online, February 21, 2011 The region’s water supplier settled today with the general contractor of its faulty reservoir but will continue to pursue a lawsuit against the engineering company that designed the 15-billion gallon structure. The settlement approved by Tampa Bay Water’s board calls for contractor Barnard Construction and subcontractor McDonald Construction […]

Source: The Examiner (San Francisco), February 19, 2011 By: Joshua Sabatini  The City’s Fourth Street Bridge project was plagued by millions of dollars in cost overruns and hundreds of days over schedule. The bridge work finished in 2006, but the headache continues with mounting legal bills as litigation over the project remains an ongoing […]

Source: http://www.newsinferno.com, March 15, 2011 Another bed bug lawsuit is making headlines, this time in Maryland. Sam Alfrey, the plaintiff in a small claims case against the owner of the Travelers Hotel LLC brought a bottle of dead bed bugs to court in a lawsuit seeking $2,480 for the rent he has paid since moving […]

Read here about this California county that was fined for environmental violations during highway construction.

Source: http://www.prweb.com, February 15, 2011 In the recently filed case of Crossmann v. Harleysville, The SC Supreme Ct. reinstated the controversial line of “no occurrence claim denials” for construction defect under a General Liability policy. This ruling subverts the intent of the drafter’s of the General Liability policy form and manages to insult professional builders […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 17, 2011 By: Chris Ramirez Two architecture firms must pay $5.9 million to the University of Pittsburgh for problems stemming from bad heating and air conditioning work in the Petersen Events Center, an Allegheny County judge ruled. Common Pleas Judge Joseph M. James ruled last month after a nonjury trial that Apostolou […]

Source: The Princeton Packet, March 10, 2011 By: Stephanie Vaccaro As promised in late December, an additional lawsuit has been filed in relation to the construction project for Princeton High School. In late February Princeton Regional Schools filed a lawsuit against Hillier Architecture for approximately $5 million, said Superintendent Judy Wilson. Dana Ostrovsky, attorney for […]

Source: The Economic Times, March 15, 2011 Coal miner Consol Energy agreed to pay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency $5.5 million in civil penalties for Clean Water Act violations at six of its mines in West Virginia, the Department of Justice said on Monday. Consol will also spend an estimated $200 million in pollution controls […]

Source: Richmond Register (KY), March 12, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection issued 10 notices of violation Thursday to the plant formerly known as Tokico, for its release of wastewater contaminated with a toxic pollutant. The department’s Environmental Response Team (ERT) responded Feb. 4 to a report from Hitachi Automotive Systems […]