Source: http://www.wsbtv.com, February 11, 2015 By: Jodie Fleischer Georgia taxpayers could be on the hook for an expensive environmental cleanup after a local business spilled a thick oily sludge and then skipped town. The sludge has dripped from a drainage pipe into a small creek that flows just 1,000 feet from the Chattahoochee River. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper […]

Source: http://news.yahoo.com, February 13, 2015 By Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter The Walt Disney Company has submitted a settlement to end a six-year-old lawsuit from an environmental watchdog over water pollutant discharges at its motion picture studio lot in Burbank, California. The Mickey Mouse company is admitting no liability but has agreed to measures to […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, January 12, 2015 By: Andrea Wells With construction activity picking up steam all across the nation, insurers are expressing concern over how the construction sector will meet the growing demand for qualified labor. Insurers are concerned not only with the shortage of new workers but also with the aging of the current construction […]

Source: http://www.agriview.com, February 12, 2015 By: Lynn Grooms At the end of December 2014, the Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a court of appeals decision, holding that manure that contaminates a well or aquifer is a “pollutant,” and therefore is not covered under a farm’s general liability insurance policy. The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling in Wilson […]

Source: http://www.agriculture.com, February 10, 2015 By: Daniel Looker When Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey joined about 80 growers and staffers at the Crop Production Services meeting in Wall Lake, Iowa Tuesday, he was at ground zero of what he called “this little lawsuit thing that’s out there” —the Des Moines Water Works notification that […]

Source: http://www.globest.com, February 10, 2015 By: John Insall With the retail industry going through a lot of flux these days, many shopping centers have been, and continue to be, targets for acquisition, redevelopment or repositioning.  Because many shopping centers have had a dry-cleaner tenant on site at one point or another, releases of perchloreoethylene (PCE) […]

Source: http://ksmu.org, February 10, 2015 By: Scott Harvey Springfield and Kansas City will receive more than $38 million to clean up contaminated soil and water as part of record national environmental bankruptcy settlement. Attorney General Chris Koster made the announcement Tuesday morning from the former Kerr-McGee plant in northwest Springfield. From 1907-2003, the site was […]

Source: http://xlgroup.com As 2015 begins, the outlook for the commercial real estate industry looks strong with interest rates continuing to be favorable. The volume of real estate transactions is expected to continue where it left off in 2014.  Property buyers, developers, and real estate managers will continue to compete for prized properties at highly valued […]

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com, February 4, 2015 By: Bob Seidenberg Evanston officials have called on the Nicor Gas Company to take responsibility for the contamination detected in and around James Park last year, in a heated fight now taking place between the entities in federal court over who is responsible for the cleanup. In pleadings filed Feb. […]

Source: http://www.dailyinterlake.com, February 4, 2015 By: Lynette Hintze Flathead County and state officials are closely watching an increase in groundwater contamination at the county landfill to determine what kind of corrective action can best address the problem. The contamination is primarily tetrachloroethylene, a carcinogenic chemical commonly used as a solvent in products such as dry-cleaning […]

Source: http://www.vancouversun.com, February 2, 2015 By Vaughn Palmer ‘Remember, if they lose the dam, the mine can’t operate anyways’ The ill-fated tailings dam at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley mine was an improvised work in progress, built higher every year to hold back the growing volumes of water behind it. “For years, dam raising had managed […]

Source: http://www.thestreet.com, February 2, 2015 By: Resource Investing News It’s been nearly six months since the tailings storage facility (TSF) at Imperial Metals’ (TSX:III) Mount Polley copper-gold mine was breached, releasing tailings into the surrounding area. However, the public is only now receiving answers about what went wrong The Mount Polley Independent Expert Engineering and […]