Source: Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), December 25, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com After decades of pollution that turned Onondaga Lake into a toxic cesspool, Honeywell has agreed to pay $9.5 million in damages and build 20 restoration projects. The federal Department of Justice filed documents in federal court Wednesday, but the settlement was not announced until after […]

Source: https://www.lexology.com, December 21, 2017 By: Garrett D. Trego, Manko Gold Katcher & Fox A putative class of plaintiffs who allege to have lived in a defined geographic area around a manufacturing plant in Merrimack, New Hampshire, or have been served by the town’s municipal water supply, sued the manufacturer in federal court, alleging property […]

Source: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com, December 20, 2017 By: Jim Haddadin Utility provider Eversource will pay the town $500,000 to settle claims it failed to clean up a polluted Southside property it acquired nearly a decade ago. Selectmen voted during a closed-door meeting Tuesday to accept the company’s settlement offer, which also requires Eversource to clean up lingering […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, December 20, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com This article was originally published in the North Carolina Association of Launderers and Cleaners’ carolina clean magazine, Holiday 2017 issue. To view the original publication, click here. OK, OK, I get it: your mother didn’t raise you to be a lawyer. But the exposure to environmental claims […]

Source: http://www.nwitimes.com, December 18, 2017 By: Sarah Reese The U.S Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it issued two unilateral administrative orders to six companies to clean up soil and indoor dust at the USS Lead Superfund site. The soil cleanup ordered for zone 2 — the second of three residential cleanup areas at the Superfund site […]

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com, December 18, 2017 By: Craig Lyons The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ordered companies blamed for contamination in East Chicago to take over the cleanup of part of the Calumet neighborhood. The EPA on Monday announced it filed two unilateral administrative orders against six companies held responsible for the contamination in East Chicago’s Calumet neighborhood, which […]

Source: http://www.mysheboygan.com, December 15, 2017 According to the federal government, three companies are liable pollution found in the Sheboygan River. The United States and the State of Wisconsin announced this week that three settlements totaling in excess of $4.5 million with Tecumseh Products Co., Thomas Industries, Inc., and Wisconsin Public Service Corp. to resolve claims for […]

Source: https://www.law.com, December 8, 2017 By: Matthew A. Karmel The logical application of the Spill Act may suggest that the liability it imposes on someone who “owns” real property may extend to an interim owner that fails to qualify as an innocent purchaser. A prior owner of environmentally contaminated real property may soon face liability […]

Source: http://www.courant.com, December 7, 2017 By: Nicholas Rondinone and Mikaela Porter Citing costs to clear environmental damage and other potential liabilities, a West Hartford town council subcommittee is recommending the town terminate the purchase of the UConn property, council member Dallas Dodge said Thursday morning. Town officials notified the university of the subcommittee’s recommendation in a meeting […]

Source: http://www.star-telegram.com, December 4, 2017 By: Sandra Baker Soil containing arsenic and another known cancer-causing chemical in Greenbriar Park is being removed more than a decade after the contamination was discovered. Crews are getting two sites in the south Fort Worth park ready for the removal of about 6,000 cubic yards of dirt that contain […]

Source: Grand Rapids Press (MI), November 30, 2017 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com The first of what’s expected to be many lawsuits has been filed against Wolverine World Wide, alleging the company turned a blind eye to an old toxic dump that has subsequently made people sick and hurt property values. Three complaints were filed against the company […]

Source: http://www.nkytribune.com, November 30, 2017 In an earlier column, I stressed the frequency that Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks still occur some 41 years later after 221 people were hospitalized and 34 people died from an outbreak that occurred at a Philadelphia convention for the American Legion; where the Legionella bacterium earned its name. This week I […]