Source: http://www.bignewsnetwork.com, December 12, 2014 The owners of a Virginia golf club have sued the state’s largest utility, accusing it of using toxic coal ash to build the facility. CPM Virginia, owners of the Battlefield Golf Club in Chesapeake, are the latest to sue Dominion Resources over the development. CPM’s claim, filed in a Virginia […]

Source: http://news.southernstudies.org, December 11, 2014 By: Sue Sturgis It’s been 10 months since a pipe broke beneath a coal ash waste pit at a shuttered Duke Energy power plant in North Carolina, sending 39,000 tons of toxic waste into the Dan River, a drinking water source for downstream communities in Virginia and North Carolina. One […]

Source: http://www.circleofblue.org, December 15, 2014 Surge in oil and gas production has seen more spills that are harming water supplies. Until two years ago, when the National Wildlife Federation pointed out their presence, the twin oil pipelines beneath the fast-flowing channel that connects Lake Michigan to Lake Huron were like nearly every other piece of […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, December 10, 2014 By: Joseph F. Bermudez and Suzanne M. Meintzer, Wilson Elser In Cincinnati Insurance Company v. AMSCO Windows, No. 13-4155 (10th Cir. November 26, 2014), Cincinnati insured AMSCO, which manufactures windows for use in homes and sells the windows to distributors. Certain AMSCO windows were installed in new homes built in Nevada, […]

Read here about a case from a 2008 train derailment that caused an oil spill in the Mississippi River that has settled for over $600,000.

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com, December 8, 2014 By: David Smiley The details of an estimated $6 million cleanup and construction project at Miami’s contaminated Douglas Park will be on display Tuesday during a 5 p.m. public meeting at City Hall. The 10-acre park at 2795 SW 37th Ave. has been closed for more than a year now […]

Source: http://fox11online.com, December 9, 2014 Another federal court trial has been scheduled as the U.S. government and paper companies continue litigate who will pay for Fox River cleanup. During a hearing Monday before Judge William Griesbach, a June 13, 2016, trial was set for a lawsuit filed in 2008 by Appvion (formerly Appleton Papers) and […]

Read here about a grain company in Iowa that has lost an appeal over a pollution lawsuit brought by residents nearby.

Source: http://www.freep.com, December 8, 2014 By: Keith Matheny A 5-acre former chemical burning pit is the latest focus in the decades-long cleanup of Velsicol Chemical’s toxic legacy in St. Louis, Mich. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has established a new Superfund site at the burn pit, now part of a golf course in the city […]

Source: http://www.masslive.com, December 8, 2014 By: Mary Serreze Parties in a long-simmering civil lawsuit over contaminated soil at the former Don Lia Honda site on King Street — the city’s primary highway business corridor — have reportedly agreed to settle instead of going to trial this month. The case was “reported settled to the court […]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org, December 8, 2014 By: Emily Atkin Shell Oil Co. is reportedly reconsidering its offer to pay $90 million to residents of a California town with widespread soil contamination, saying they had wanted the settlement to be kept confidential. According to a Law360 report, Shell attorney Deanne Miller told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge […]

Source: http://www.ctlawtribune.com, December 1, 2014 By: Ryan M. Suerth and Mark A. Rosenblum, The Connecticut Law Tribune Some contractors, developers are unaware that insurance covers lawsuit defense Oftentimes, insurance policyholders in the construction industry (e.g., contractors, developers, manufacturers, suppliers) fail to consider their insurance policies when a lawsuit is brought against them alleging liability arising […]