Source: Wisconsin State Journal, April 13, 2015 By: http://envfpn.advisen.com Dane County should require Enbridge Energy to purchase $25 million in special pollution insurance to address concerns about a possible spill of tar sands crude and toxic chemicals as the company sharply increases the load carried by an underground pipeline, according to a new consultant’s report. […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com, April 9, 2015 By: Ariana Eunjung Cha A new study published Thursday reported a disturbing correlation between unusually high levels of radon gas in mostly residences and an oil and gas production technique known as fracking that has become the industry standard over the past decade. Writing in the journal Environmental Health Perspective, researchers analyzed […]

Source: http://www.thestate.com, April 9, 2015 By: Sammy Fretwell Evidence that a Duke Energy power plant site near Hartsville is more contaminated than previously suspected continues to grow as state regulators, environmentalists and company officials learn more about the property. Records show that a coal ash waste pond at the H.B. Robinson plant contains about six […]

Source: http://www.usatoday.com, April 9, 2015 By: Liz Szabo and Doyle Rice Levels of cancer-causing radon gas in Pennsylvania homes have increased as the fracking industry has expanded, a new study shows. The study is a preliminary “first look” into a possible connection between fracking and radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas, says co-author Joan Casey. […]

Source: http://www.archpaper.com, April 9, 2015 The prominent architecture firm NBBJ recently found itself tied up in a series of cases regarding an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Dayton, Ohio. Their story underscores some thorny legal issues for architects and building engineers. In May 2007 Ohio’s Miami Valley Hospital (MVH) and its corporate arm, Premier Health […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, March 5, 2015 By: Nicholas Zeman, with Richard Korman A 12-story hospital addition in Dayton, Ohio that was hailed in 2010 as an advance in modular construction has turned into a major legal headache and source of costly losses to the construction team, its insurers and the project architect. The trouble emerged after […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 1, 2015 By: Amy B. Briggs, Donna M. Carlton, David B. Killalea , Stephen T. Raptis, Robert H. Shulman and Susan P. White, Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP Why it matters: In a victory for policyholders, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled that an asbestos exclusion was ambiguous as applied to the maker and […]

Source: http://www.courthousenews.com, April 2, 2015 By: Katherine Proctor Companies fighting over the ongoing cleanup of contaminated Sacramento soil and groundwater must return to the drawing board, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday. The dispute arises from the industrial dry-cleaning and laundry operations Petrolane subsidiary Valley Industrial Services conducted at site in Sacramento it later sold in […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, April 3, 2015 By: Scott Fallon Anyone who regularly went onto the Quanta Superfund site in Edgewater before some of the pollution was removed has an increased risk of getting cancer and other diseases, according to a new health study by the state. A Department of Health official said the increased risk is […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 6, 2015 By: Hunton & Williams LLP On March 30, 2015, the Court of Appeals of Georgia held that lead-based paint did not qualify as a pollutant for purposes of a standard pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability (CGL) policy, resolving a matter of first impression in Georgia. The decision in […]

Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH), April 5, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The tractor-trailers arrive at a steady pace, turning off Rt. 50 and climbing a hill to a collection of tall, green metal tanks. The trucks haul long, white tanks that are bare except for a number that identifies their company and one word that has […]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A century ago, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. generated gas for San Francisco customers from coal and oil plants in the Marina and Fisherman’s Wharf neighborhoods that deposited their waste into the ground and in waters that flowed to the bay. Five years ago, Marina […]