Source: http://medinagazette.northcoastnow.com, January 22, 2015 By: Nick Glunt The Medina County District Library will receive $640,000 in an out-of-court settlement ending a lawsuit over defects in the construction of the Lodi Library. The library was closed in November 2011 for 2 1/2 years after officials said the wooden beams in the cathedral ceiling of the […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, January 21, 2015 The debate over hydraulic fracturing, a technique used to drill oil and natural gas wells, may be coming to Kentucky. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports there’s been increased interest among oil and gas companies in areas of eastern and central Kentucky. Local officials told the newspaper that companies have signed hundreds […]

Source: http://www.whio.com, January 20, 2015 The Ohio Second Court of Appeals has ruled an architecture firm should be held financially responsible for a deadly Legionnaire’s outbreak at Miami Valley Hospital in 2011. The court last week upheld a decision by the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, finding architecture firm NBBJ L.L.C. breached its contract with […]

Source: Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, PA), January 19, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a proposed settlement with several companies in connection with a large groundwater contamination Superfund site in Warren County, New Jersey. The EPA added the Pohatcong Valley Groundwater Contamination Superfund site to the […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, January 19, 2015 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Oil from a broken pipeline has seeped into the Yellowstone River and contaminated a Montana town’s water supply, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday evening. The agency described the crude spill of roughly 1,200 barrels as significant. It occurred Saturday morning less than […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 15, 2015 By: Meredith Whigham Caiafa, Carlton Fields Jorden Burt We previously discussed the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Crownover v. Mid-Continent Cas. Co., No. 11-10166 (5th Cir June 27, 2014)—an opinion that seemed to revive the contractual liability exclusion by distinguishing a landmark Texas decision that had narrowed […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, January 16, 2015 By: S.P.Sullivan The company selling the former Hoffmann-La Roche campus in Clifton and Nutley plans to complete its large-scale clean up of contaminated soil ahead of construction of the state’s first private medical school on the property, company officials said Thursday. But ongoing groundwater remediation at the site, where pharmaceutical […]

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, January 15, 2015 By: Brian Nearing The owner of the badly polluted site of a long-abandoned dry-cleaning business said Thursday she had no idea of the property’s troubled history. She now faces what could be a million-dollar cleanup bill, which she says she cannot afford, and pressure from the state to act. “I got […]

Source: http://www.heraldtribune.com, January 16, 2015 By: Chris Anderson A jury has awarded Manatee County $2.2 million after it found one of the country’s top engineering firms to be negligent during repair work on the Lake Manatee Dam. After a two-week trial, the jury deliberated for less than six hours and found that URS Corp. was […]

Source: http://www.yakimaherald.com, January 15, 2015 By: Ross Courtney In a wide-ranging ruling Wednesday, a federal judge found that one of the Yakima Valley’s largest dairies, the Cow Palace near Granger, has polluted groundwater through its application, storage and management of manure, posing possible “imminent and substantial endangerment” to the public consuming the water and the […]

<Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 13, 2015 By: Jesse Glickstein, Eric Rothenberg, Kelly McTigue and Danielle C. Gray, O’Melveny & Myers LLP This is a quarterly update to our coverage on laws, regulation, and policy affecting hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) operations. Our last installment was issued September 2, 2014, and may be found here. This latest update details developments in […]

Source: http://www.timesunion.com, January 13, 2015 By: Brian Nearing Dry-cleaning solvent, byproducts spreading from Central Avenue site The state Department of Environmental Conservation will investigate a toxic underground chemical plume beneath a former Central Avenue dry cleaner that is moving toward homes and businesses in Colonie. There are unsafe levels of a dry-cleaning solvent — tetrachloroethene (PCE) […]