Source: http://powersource.post-gazette.com, September 22, 2015 By: Anya Litvak Since the 1930s, a chunk of land in Beaver County has been growing richer in all the wrong types of ways — building up reserves of lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury. The land, which until last year housed the largest zinc smelter in the nation, is now in […]

Source: http://www.jacksonsun.com, September 21, 2015 By: David Thomas The 22,357 acres at the Milan Army Ammunition Plant may be sacred grounds, but remnants of wars past call for a massive cleanup that is expected to last another 60 years. Britt Locke, the commander’s representative at the plant said ground water contamination affected the Memphis Sand […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, September 18, 2015 By: Caroline Spangenberg and Edmund Kneisel, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Perhaps no case has generated as many citations and commentary (more than 1,880 citations, including 440 cases) on the subject of liability coverage for “construction defects” as Weedo v. Stone-E-Brick, Inc., 81 N.J. 233, 405 A.2d 788 (1979). For […]

Source: http://www.post-gazette.com, September 22, 2015 By: Sean D. Hamill Infectious control experts from the state and federal governments are to be at UPMC Presbyterian and Montefiore hospitals today to try to figure out how to keep a possible mold outbreak from spreading, one day after UPMC said it was stopping all transplants at Presbyterian while […]

Source: https://bangordailynews.com, September 17, 2015 Cy: Walter Wuthmann The contamination of children by a potentially hazardous chemical at a former Air Force base in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has raised concerns about the possibility of a similar problem in Brunswick. The children and other residents in Portsmouth drank tainted water from a well on the former […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA), September 15, 2015 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com A mold outbreak has caused the closure of UPMC Presbyterian’s cardiothoracic intensive care unit and relocation of 18 patients, officials said Monday. Doctors suspected the unit had a problem on Sept. 3 after a male transplant patient tested positive for mold in an external wound, […]

Source: Telegraph (Alton, IL), September 15, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Monday filed a consent order to resolve groundwater contamination issues at the Shay No. 1 Coal Mine in Macoupin County. The consent order filed and entered by the court in Macoupin County will resolve groundwater quality violations at Shay Mine, […]

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 […]