Source: http://www.nj.com, February 25, 2014 By: Nicole Mulvaney, The Times of Trenton A Superior Court judge today rejected arguments that AvalonBay, the developer that wants to convert the former Princeton hospital on Witherspoon Street into housing, had not addressed concerns about dust levels, asbestos and medical waste disposal. Township residents concerned about the environmental impacts […]

Source: Public Opinion (Chambersburg, PA), February 24, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com Pennsylvania is moving ahead with plans to quickly replace hundreds of its nearly 4,500 structurally deficient bridges with the help of a private consortium. The consortium would design and build the bridges within five years, then maintain them for a quarter century. Several bridges […]

Source: http://www.shreveporttimes.com, February 24, 2014 By: Jason Clayworth Allegations of unsafe practices prompt libel suit A contractor initially involved in renovations at the former Younkers building in downtown Des Moines claims that hundreds of people are being exposed daily to asbestos or lead poisoning at the site. Multiple state officials say a complaint about the […]

Source: News & Record (Greensboro, NC), February 23, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The recent coal ash spill on the Dan River caused at least $70 million in damage to fish, wildlife and other related aspects of the economy, according to a Wake Forest University professor with an extensive background in coal ash research. The amount […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, February 24, 2014 Officials investigating a carbon monoxide leak at a New York mall are concentrating on the heating system of a restaurant there. A manager at Legal Sea Foods restaurant died and more than two dozen others were sent to hospitals following the leak last Saturday at the Walt Whitman Shops in […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, February 21, 2014 By: Daniel Geiger, Crain’s New York Business For years, construction executives and real estate developers have insisted that an arcane New York state law that foists the liability for construction accidents solely on the builder has dramatically driven up the cost of construction insurance and even hurt worker safety. Now […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, February 20, 2014 By: Jessica L. Duggan, Kevin P. Kamraczewski and Stephen M. Fields After looking at numerous investment opportunities, you bite the bullet, assemble a syndicate of lenders and close on a leveraged buyout transaction resulting in control of the operating company target through the use of a holding company. You were […]

Source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com, February 20, 2014 Cochrane’s Dairy and its current owner, Barry Cochrane, are facing five charges under the Fisheries Act for allegedly dumping waste water from the dairy plant into the Castor River in Russell, Ont., southeast of Ottawa. The Castor River flows into the South Nation River, which flows into the Ottawa River. […]

Read here about contaminants being removed from a NY Superfund site in New York.

Source: http://www.normantranscript.com, February 21, 2014 Buy: M. Scott Carter Seven students died at Plaza Towers on May 20 When the storm came, seven students in the Plaza Towers third-grade center sheltered in the hall. At Briarwood, the students and teachers thought the school building would protect them. Then the tornado hit, and the schools fell. […]

Source: http://www.alaskadispatch.com, February 19, 2014 By: Dermot Cole The legal and administrative fight over pollution near the Flint Hills refinery [3] is poised to spread, just like the solvent sulfolane in the groundwater that has traveled three miles from the North Pole refinery. While one confrontation centers on how much the owner and the former owner would be […]

Source: http://www.natlawreview.com, February 19, 2014 By: Cameron F. Field & Leah Hurtgen Ziemba, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP Two Wisconsin Court of Appeals panels recently considered whether “manure” and “septage” fall under pollution exclusion clauses of insurance policies. One decision held that manure is not a pollutant, and insured a farmer after a manure application contaminated a neighbor’s well, […]