Source: Odessa American (TX), September 16, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An Environmental Protection Agency team is cleaning up thousands of leaky oil drums left for years in industrial east Odessa that investigators say threatened groundwater, risked dangerous runoff to a nearby neighborhood and created a fire hazard after a local businessman abandoned them when his […]

Source: http://www.bellinghamherald.com, September 13, 2015 By: Kie Relyea It could cost $16 million to clean up contaminated soil on property that will one day be part of the city’s waterfront park at the end of Cornwall Avenue. The city of Bellingham, with oversight from the Washington state Department of Ecology, has completed a study of […]

Source: http://patch.com, September 16, 2015 By: Eric Kiefer The BASF site, the location of Hoboken’s pending $18.3 M eminent domain purchase, is “contaminated,” city administrators confirmed. As the Hoboken City Council convenes for a final vote and public hearing on the long-touted, $18.3 million “Resiliency Park” project on Wednesday night, there may be a new […]

Source: http://jacksonville.com, September 14, 2015 By: Steve Patterson Steps to clean up one of Jacksonville’s oldest industrial pollution sites are dragging while regulators weigh options and attorneys posture over who will pay the bill. The next challenge comes this week, when a mediator will try to talk through some agreement for a federal lawsuit involving […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 11, 2015 By: Jeffrey S. Wertman, Berger Singerman LLP Construction lenders have a financial interest that construction projects are completed, completed on time, and completed without defects. But does a lender have a duty to oversee construction or uncover construction defects? And, if construction is faulty, can the lender be liable if […]

Source: http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca, August 1, 2015 By: Greg Meckbach Environmental clean-up can cost millions of dollars, regulators sometimes force innocent organizations and individuals to pay for remediation and general liability policies do not always cover pollution risks. To be prepared, risk managers should assume their organizations have at least some environmental exposure. As regulators make environmental […]

Source: http://www.policyholderinformer.com, September 3, 2015 By: Charrise L. Alexander, Dickstein Shapiro LLP As the economy across the United States continues its slow improvement, many cities across the nation are experiencing a boom in real estate development. From residential to public transit to public works, developers are bidding on and undertaking large projects. Before beginning any new […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 27, 2015 By: Amy B. Briggs, Donna M. Carlton, Christine Spinella Davis, David B. Killalea, Stephen T. Raptis and Robert H. Shulman, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Why it matters: A Louisiana federal court held that a general liability insurer must indemnify its policyholder for costs incurred to address violations of the Clean […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, August 23, 2015 By: Bill Nellen Proper assessment and coverage of environmental liabilities can make the difference between a successful or failed real estate investment. Bill Nellen, executive vice president of the Environmental Group at Alliant Insurance Services Inc., discusses the routes to a positive outcome. Private equity has been demonstrating a voracious […]

Source: https://bangordailynews.com, September 2, 2015 By: Dawn Gagnon A federal court judge issued a ruling Wednesday ordering that an engineering firm be hired to develop a plan to clean up mercury deposited in the Penobscot River by a defunct Orrington chemical plant. HoltraChem, which operated from 1967 to 1982, produced 23,000 pounds of toxic mercury […]

Source: http://www.bakersfield.com, September 5, 2015 By: John Cox A unique sprinkler system northeast of Bakersfield has run night and day for more than half a century without attracting much notice, despite supporting a healthy-looking green patch that easily stands out from the golden foothills around it. But lately the installation has received lots of attention as regional water […]

Source: http://newjersey.realestaterama.com, July 31, 2015 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed modifications to the plan to address contaminated groundwater at the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. site in Newfield and Vineland, N.J. A plan originally put into place by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection when it was mainly responsible for the site had required […]