Source: http://www.columbiadailyherald.com By: Chris Graham Officials have sued the engineering company tapped to design and oversee construction of the city’s multi-million dollar lagoon system. The lawsuit filed in Maury County Circuit Court April 6 alleges engineers with Nashville-based James C. Hailey & Co. misrepresented the financial feasibility of a wastewater lagoon system to secure a […]

Source: http://www.nbc-2.com, April 14, 2011 The amount of asbestos discovered at the Summerlin overpass project is in excess of the legal limit, according to a report from ARMC, the asbestos consulting company. ARMC sent an email to Lee County and the Department of Environmental Protection notifying them of the amount of asbestos found at the site. […]

Source: The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register (West Virginia), April 15, 2011 By: Casey Junkins Wetzel County property owners believe Chesapeake Energy is trying to remove benzene-contaminated soil from a drilling site waste pit. Chesapeake officials, however, said company workers are busy repairing a slip at the drilling site – and are well within their rights to do […]

Source: The Modesto Bee, April 9, 2011 By: Garth Stapley The government must have had its reasons, 40 years ago, for turning gently rolling land near a peaceful river bend into a dump. Maybe no one wanted it for anything else. It likely was cheap and available, and — nine miles east of Modesto — […]

Source: http://www.mynewmarkets.com, April 13, 2011 By: Alan M. Parizo Pollution coverage a necessary option for agribusiness? If that sounds like a contradiction in terms to the agribusiness agent, consider that the exposures his customers face in growing and servicing the food chain from farm to table involves a pollution exposure in every step of the […]

Check out Tim Farrell’s article “Insurance Is Far More Than a Piece of Paper,” which is published in the April issue of Construction Executive Magazine. http://ow.ly/4A8yx

Read here about a California design firm that has asked a Minnesota court not to allow the company to be sued for a Minneapolis bridge collapse.

Source: The Press-Enterprise, April 11, 2011 By: David Danelski School districts, the U.S. Marine Corps and Caltrans are among the public agencies and private companies that improperly shipped more than 160,000 tons of hazardous waste to an outdoor soil-recycling plant in Mecca that did not have a state permit to accept such waste, a Press-Enterprise […]

Read here about a former dry cleaning site in North Carolina that is being investigated for groundwater contamination.

Read here about an egg producer in Ohio that has been fined as a result of pollution complaints.

Source: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com, April 5, 2011 What used to be the old Zurbrugg Hospital in Riverside, NJ is now a pile of rubble. And now the State Division of Criminal Justice says preliminary reports indicate industrial products containing asbestos were found during a search by hazardous materials crews last week. The products were found in bags, […]

Source: http://www.wflx.com, April 6, 2011 By: Rachel Leigh The intersection of Midway and Glades Cut-Off roads shut down Wednesday morning following a spill of liquid fertilizer officials said. Liquid fertilizer reportedly was being transported in a tanker and there was a leak in the tank St. Lucie County Fire District spokeswoman Catherine Chaney said. The […]