Source: https://www.businessinsider.com, July 19, 2018 By: Hilary Brueck A steam pipe explosion in New York City sent muck, steam, and asphalt into the air. Electric company ConEd is testing for asbestos contamination. Asbestos is a fibrous, mineral-based building material that is toxic to humans when inhaled. It is linked to lung cancer . On Thursday, a steam pipe exploded on 5th […]

Source: http://www.fox8live.com, July 119, 2018 By: Katherine Mozzone It was standing room only at the Orleans Parish School Board meeting Thursday, with close to two dozen parents turning out to tell officials their thoughts on asbestos contamination at an Orleans Parish Charter School. Parents had no problem voicing their concerns to leaders with the Choice […]

Source: http://www.fox8live.com, July 29, 2018 By: Katherine Mozzone It was standing room only at the Orleans Parish School Board meeting Thursday, with close to two dozen parents turning out to tell officials their thoughts on asbestos contamination at an Orleans Parish Charter School. Parents had no problem voicing their concerns to leaders with the Choice […]

Source: https://www.insurancejournal.com, July 5, 2018 By: Emery P. Dalesio A federal jury in North Carolina has punished the world’s largest pork producer, deciding Smithfield Foods should pay two neighbors more than $25 million for unreasonable nuisances they suffered from odors, flies and rumbling trucks after an industrial-scale hog grower expanded near their home. The case, […]

Source: New York Times Online, June 25, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Bourbon is flowing in Kentucky, but don’t grab a glass. Thousands of full barrels of bourbon, and possibly other spirits, came crashing down when a storage warehouse in Bardstown, Ky., partly collapsed on Friday. The collapse at the Barton 1792 Distillery campus was called […]

Source: AFP World News, June 5, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Animal rescue workers on Monday were frantically cleaning hundreds of birds after an oil spill in the Rotterdam harbour at the weekend, when an oil tanker hit a jetty dumping some 200 tonnes of bunker fuel. The Norwegian tanker Bow Jubail on Saturday crashed against […]

Source: AFP World News, June 25, 2018 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com Animal rescue workers on Monday were frantically cleaning hundreds of birds after an oil spill in the Rotterdam harbour at the weekend, when an oil tanker hit a jetty dumping some 200 tonnes of bunker fuel. The Norwegian tanker Bow Jubail on Saturday crashed against […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, June 15, 2018 By: Dawn M. Meyers, Berger Singerman LLP In the transactional world, it has long been standard operating procedure to conduct due diligence and, should environmental conditions be found, contract around them through the use of indemnifications. With a booming economy, though, sellers in a seller’s market have grown less willing […]

By: RT New Day, June 19, 2018 Here we go again. The hurricane season officially began June 1 with AccuWeather predicting three to five major hurricanes between now and November. Last year, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria caused nearly $300 billion in total damages, while negatively impacting millions of lives. That’s because even after the […]

Source: https://www.freep.com, May 30, 2018 By: Kristen Jordan Shamus It couldn’t have been just the switch in the source of the water that caused the 2014-15 Genessee County Legionnaires’ disease outbreak that sickened 90 people and killed 12, a report released Tuesday from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services suggests. Rather, the state’s top health officials say that […]

Source: https://www.heraldnet.com, May 18, 2018 By: Kari Bray Monsanto is accused of sickening adults and children by exposing them to toxic substances. A company that has faced lawsuits around the country recently sought dismissal of a local case in which families say they were sickened by toxic chemicals at school buildings in Monroe. A King […]

Read here about a lawsuit against a hog farm for horrendous odors.