Source: https://www.sacbee.com/, April 6, 2022 by: Madeline Shannon The Ballico-Cressey School District, a small school district in a rural stretch of northern Merced County, is suing corporate giants Dow Chemical and Shell Oil. The lawsuit, filed on March 30 in Merced County Superior Court, alleges that the big companies manufactured and sold agricultural fumigants containing […]

Source: https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/, April 6, 2022 By: Kate Ready The Jackson Hole Airport Board is suing a number of companies, including 3M, DuPont and Chemours, for selling a fire-quelling foam that contains harmful contaminants known to pollute groundwater and soil. Other airports also have joined the suit targeting chemicals that airports were required to use by […]

Source: https://www.wqad.com/, April 4, 2022 By: Shelby Kluver The Illinois attorney general alleges that 3M knowingly manufactured and used dangerous chemicals for years, ultimately contaminating the nearby Mississippi River, residential wells and surface, ground and drinking water around its Cordova facility, according to a new lawsuit. Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed the suit in Rock […]

Source: https://www.spokesman.com/, April 5, 2022 By: Colin Tiernan Forty -five years ago, a Spokane County business could truck its used industrial solvents and degreasers to the Colbert landfill and pour them into an open trench, 55-gallon barrel by 55-gallon barrel. From 1975 to 1980, Spokane County allowed Keytronic, Fairchild Air Force Base and others to […]

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/, April 5, 2022 By: Keith Edwards An underground explosion Monday morning at the Exit 43 Quik Stop, off Route 197 near Interstate 295 in Richmond, forced temporary closure of the gas station and convenience store, prompted evacuation of nearby businesses and led to a brief road closure, according to officials. Chief John Bellino […]

Source: https://www.vcstar.com/, April 1, 2022 By: Cheri Carlson California regulators have ordered Boeing to clean up lead-contaminated soil in Sage Ranch Park in Simi Valley. The state Department of Toxic Substances Control says the cleanup is required on about 31 acres contaminated by lead shot, skeet fragments and clay pigeon debris left over from when the area […]

Source: https://www.claimsjournal.com/, March 29, 2022 By: Tom Hals Bayer AG reached an $80 million settlement with Ohio to resolve environmental damage allegedly caused by polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, made by the company’s Monsanto business, the state attorney general said on Thursday. The funds from the German company, which did not admit liability, will be used […]

Source: https://nj1015.com/, April 4, 2022 By: Patrick Lavery The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has filed a lawsuit seeking damages against Connecticut-based Hexcel Corporation, which for 13 years operated a manufacturing plant in this Bergen County borough where storage tanks leaked fuel and toxic chemicals into the groundwater. In a release Monday, the state Office […]

Source: https://sfist.com/, April 11, 2022 By: Joe Kukura A three-year legal battle leaves Lennar Inc. and developer FivePoint Holdings on the hook for $6.3 million, after a U.S. District Court judge just approved a settlement with homeowners who were misled and bought property contaminated with toxic waste. The so-called “revitalization” of the Hunters Point Shipyard had a […]

Source: Berkley Design Professional, https://www.berkleydp.com/ A large multi-discipline engineering firm working on a design-build project was retained by a general contractor to review payment applications for certification of the project to the owner and lender. Correspondence between the contractor and policyholder indicated that those reviews were to be “desktop reviews” only without a requirement for […]

Source: Berkley Design Professional, https://www.berkleydp.com/ A surveyor was retained by a general contractor to perform construction staking for a new multi-family residential development adjacent to a waterway. Negotiations had occurred with adjacent property owners to adjust the rear-yard setback of the new project to preserve open space views from the adjacent properties. The project’s site […]

Source: Berkley Design Professional, https://www.berkleydp.com/ A small civil/survey firm had a master agreement with a municipality to provide on-call engineering services and periodic site inspections. The firm’s individual projects were handled with a purchase order, not a contract. On a road improvement project a motorcyclist was severely injured when the driver lost control and crashed […]