Source: Daily Star, The (Oneonta, NY), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Like Middlefield, Springfield and Otsego, the town of Cherry Valley is moving to ban drilling and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within its borders. The town’s zoning commission will hold a public hearing Monday on a draft land-use law that prohibits new drilling […]

Source: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com With more contaminants being found in city wells, the Madison Water Board is considering a tougher approach to pollutants, including heightened monitoring, filters and other treatments. Contamination of Madison’s public drinking water wells by industrial pollutants is a growing problem. For example, pollutants […]

Source: Belleville News-Democrat, IL, March 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Seven years after water districts filed suit against the makers of a farm herbicide, the class-action lawsuit is still mired in legal machinations in Madison County. The Holiday Shores Sanitary District was one of 13 public water districts to file suit against Syngenta, maker of […]

Read here about an Arizona school district that had to pay over $850K to cleanup pesticide.

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 […]