Source: The Columbus Dispatch, August 12, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A company that faces state sanctions and fines for pipeline-construction spills in eastern Ohio continues to foul streams and wetlands. Scott Nally, director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, told Denver-based MarkWest Energy in a March 8 letter that the size and repeated nature of […]

Source: Risk & Insurance, July/August 2013 Linda Morris, head of HR for a design firm, has a puzzling problem: a mystery illness is causing a flood of absenteeism. Faced with mounting pressure from employees and management to find a solution, Linda takes every possible measure to combat the illness and identify a cause. After investigating […]

Source: http://www.cnn.com, June 11, 2013 By: Monte Plott For a time, it had the makings of a mountain mystery. Three deaths — first an elderly couple then, weeks later, an 11-year-old boy — in the same hotel room with the same immediate response from authorities: cause of death undetermined. When the third death — that […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 12, 2013 By: David M. Governo, Bryna Rosen Misiura and Melissa L. Tarab , Governo Law Firm LLC In our current economy, foreclosures still remain a common concern for commercial property owners and lending institutions. While property seizure is intended to protect secured lenders by giving them the opportunity to sell the […]

Source: http://www.enewspf.com, August 7, 2013 If not for the effort of Clean Water Action and Earthjustice, a wastewater treatment plant in southwestern Pennsylvania might have spent each day of the past three years dumping up to 500,000 gallons of untreated natural gas drilling wastewater into the Monongahela River. Instead, the plant has not discharged a […]

Source: http://articles.philly.com, August 8, 2013 By: Jessica Parks The Cheltenham Township School District is dealing with mold in the middle school and lead paint in an elementary school that could delay the start of the academic year. Summer maintenance crews discovered “a significant presence of mold” at Cedarbrook Middle School in July, Superintendent Natalie Thomas […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 3, 2013 By: Andrew B. Downs, Bullivant Houser Bailey PC This is the second in a series of posts on issues arising under professional liability policies. The aim of this series is to provide sufficient background information to allow the defense attorney to identify relevant issues frequently raised by professional liability policies […]

Source: http://www.cantonrep.com, August 6, 2013 By: Kelli Young More than a decade after the Stark County Health Department closed a troubled landfill in Osnaburg Township, the landfill’s owners will repay a portion of the cost to cap, clean and monitor the shuttered facility. In a consent order filed Tuesday in Stark County Common Pleas Court, […]

Source: http://www.rrstar.com, August 6, 2013 By: Kevin Haas A group of residents that live near the Winnebago Landfill has filed a lawsuit that says the company failed to control landfill gases and its noxious fumes. Multiple plaintiffs from 70 households are listed in the suit filed Monday in the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Winnebago […]

Read here about a dairy in California that has been fined for polluting groundwater.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 23, 2013 By: William R. Wildman and Kent W. Collier, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP The highest court in Georgia has recently added that jurisdiction to the growing list that considers defective construction, including defects in the work of a general contractor, to be an “occurrence” under the general contractor’s commercial general […]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 5, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The fast-growing sand mining industry is grappling with a rising number of environmental problems across western Wisconsin. Many of the cases involve water pollution — where vast piles of sand, sediment and dirt have washed off properties, often after heavy rains, and contaminated waterways. Since […]