Source: http://californianewswire.com, June 17, 2014 By: Valerie Gotten Riveting, heartrending, and – ultimately – persuasive testimony elicited by attorneys from the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg led a Manhattan jury on Monday to award $25 million in damages to two victims of asbestos exposure, the plaintiffs’ attorneys today announced. The jury decided that Ivan […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 21, 2014 By: Albert “Bert” H. Acken and Julie A. Rosen, Ryley Carlock & Applewhite Evaluating environmental risks associated with real estate transactions is a standard, and often standardized, practice for sophisticated real estate practitioners. However, in light of several recent developments – the uptick in transactions from the nadir of the […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, June 16, 2014 By: Stephanie K. Jones The insurance capacity is there to cover the risks associated with the current oil and gas boom in Texas and the nation, experts say, but agents and their customers should be vigilant in their efforts to understand the wording in coverage contracts. As of April 17, Texas alone claimed […]

Read here about a class action pollution lawsuit in Iowa that has been reinstated.

Read here about a fracking ban that was passed by the New York state Assembly.

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, June 13, 2014 By: Scott Fallon Although federal officials say there is no money to clean up the polluted water spreading underneath a Garfield neighborhood, they still have enough funds to remove contamination from basements and perform a pilot study to determine how best to treat the groundwater eventually. Officials at the U.S. […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 12, 2014 By: Hunton & Williams LLP On May 29, 2014, the Supreme Court of Nevada held in Century Surety Company v. Casino West, Inc., No. 60622 (Nev. May 29, 2014), that a general liability policy’s absolute pollution exclusion and an indoor air quality exclusion are ambiguous and do not bar coverage […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 9, 2014 By: John M. Clark and Marie S. Reilly, Nelson Levine de Luca & Hamilton LLC During the past year, five state supreme courts (Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, North Dakota and West Virginia) have found that faulty workmanship by a construction contractor or subcontractor can be a covered “occurrence.” Ignoring precedent, the […]

Source: http://phys.org, June 9, 2014 Researchers at the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have been awarded a $10 million grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) over the next four years to study asbestos exposure pathways that lead to mesothelioma, the […]

Source: http://www.statesmanjournal.com, June 12, 2014 By: Tracy Loew Four companies have been fined a total of $36,800 for violating Oregon’s asbestos law during renovations at a Monmouth apartment last December. The state Department of Environmental Quality imposed a $4,800 fine on the apartment owner, Bryadd Inc. of Salem; and $5,600 fines on both the property […]

Source: http://www.tmcnet.com, June 11, 2014 A site in Irvine’s business district where Xerox had once cleaned copiers and equipment with chemical solvents will get its own cleanup. The Department of Toxic Substances Control plans to scoop out contaminated soil and monitor groundwater at the site near the corner of Jamboree Road and Dupont Drive and […]

Source: http://franklinpark.suntimes.com, June 11, 2014 By: Mark Lawton The village of Franklin Park has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the owner of a contaminated manufacturing property. In May, the village filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against Joslyn Manufacturing, which owns a 34-acre site roughly bordered by Martens Street, Fullerton Avenue, Willow […]