Source: http://news.yahoo.com, September 19, 2014 By: Laura Zuckerman A second container of plutonium-contaminated debris may have contributed to a radiation leak that has led to the indefinite suspension of operations at an underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, a U.S. Energy Department official said on Thursday. Preliminary findings from an investigation of a Feb. […]

Source: http://www.theguardian.com, September 18, 2014 By: Peter Moskowitz Pennsylvanians are racing to find old wells that spread fumes in homes and bubble contaminants into drinking water, even as the fracking industry continues to fuel the state’s economy Laurie Barr spent a recent Saturday like she spends a lot of her weekends: trodding through the thorny […]

Source: http://www.paloaltoonline.com, September 17, 2014 By: Gennady Sheyner City launches legal proceedings against Flintco Pacific after years of delays, errors Palo Alto is seeking more than $9 million from a contractor that the city deems primarily responsible for the botched reconstruction of the Mitchell Park Library and Community Center. The City Council on Monday authorized […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, September 15, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Natural gas is contaminating some aquifers not from hydraulic fracturing but from faulty well preparation, according to a new paper. Poorly built and cemented gas wells, rather than fracking itself, have allowed contaminants to flow into shallow drinking-water sources, according to a report published […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, September 15, 2014 By: S.P. Sullivan The state moved closer to ending more than eight years of litigation over toxic pollution in the Passaic River with the announcement of a $190 million settlement agreement with the Occidental Chemical Co. on Monday. The agreement amounts to the largest single settlement reached between the state […]

Source: http://www.desmoinesregister.com, September 15, 2014 By: Christopher Platt The West Des Moines school district has reached a $2 million settlement with contractors who worked on a renovation at Hillside Elementary School in 2004. The district says windows at the school, 713 Eighth St. in West Des Moines, leaked for years. In 2012, students were moved […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, September 11, 2014 By: Jonathan Ettiger, Foley Hoag LLP A Massachusetts company learned the hard way that you need to pay close attention to policy endorsements when you negotiate them. In Market Forge Industries, Inc. v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts held, in an unpublished decision, that a Pollution […]

Source: http://sbnewspaper.com, September 9, 2014 By: Jacob Lopez Harlingen-based Cruz-Hogan Consultants, one of several firms named as a defendant in a lawsuit claiming deficiencies associated with a $17 million water treatment plant it was contracted to design, has alleged in a statement that the San Benito City Commission is being “mislead” by City Manager Manuel […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 3, 2014 By: Donald A. O’Brien, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP Dormitory Authority of the State of New York v. Continental Casualty Company, Docket Nos. 13-1671(L), 13-1700(XAP) United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit (June 23, 2014) The Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) contracted with an architectural firm to […]

Source: http://www.spokesman.com, September 4, 2014 By: Becky Kramer A company that operated more than 20 mines in Idaho’s Silver Valley over the past century can sue a railroad that hauled ore to try to recover some of the hundreds of millions of dollars it has paid for environmental cleanup, a federal appeals court ruled. Five years […]

Source: http://www.enewspf.com, September 4, 2014 Under a proposed settlement reached with the United States and the state of Indiana, the Atlantic Richfield Company and E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) will pay for an estimated $26 million cleanup of lead and arsenic contamination in parts of a residential neighborhood in East Chicago, Indiana, […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 3, 2014 By: John R. Casciano and Jessica L. Urban, Steptoe & Johnson LLP In Arrowood Indemnity Company v. Oxford Cleaners & Tailors, LLC, No. 1:13-12298, 2014 WL 4104169 (D. Mass. Aug. 15, 2014), the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, applying Massachusetts law, granted summary judgment to a liability […]