Read here about a settlement worth over $2 million that Timex Corp. to settle a contamination dispute at an Arkansas airport.  

Read here about an oil spill in Colorado that was discovered by a construction crew.

Source: The Boston Globe, March 17, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com It’s a dirty job, and the Navy has to do it. The task: cleaning up the former home of the South Weymouth Naval Air Station, a property with a history dating back to World War II. In the 1940s, blimps that silently patrolled the US […]

Read here about an agreement that was reached between environmentalists and Camp Pendleton to reduce sewage spills from a California Marine Corps base.

Read here about drillers in Pennsylvania being encouraged to use coal mine water for fracking.

Read here about water being declared safe at LAX after being shut down due to contamination.

Source: USA Today.com, March 14, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Armed with long bamboo poles, masked workers continued to haul dead hogs from a river in the Shanghai suburbs Thursday, where the pig body count now exceeds 6,600, according to the municipal government. City officials repeated reassurances to a nervous public that the drinking water in […]

Source: The Baltimore Sun, March 9, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Times are good these days at the Linde Corp., where despite a sluggish economy nationally, the company is on a hiring binge. The construction company, based near Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, has seen its workforce nearly triple over the past five years as it switched […]

Read here about fees and taxes that drillers would have to pay in Illinois if a regulation plan is approved.

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 14, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Generic-drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA, TEVA.TV) will pay $2.25 million to settle allegations its plant in Missouri broke environmental laws over a period of years, including by releasing pollutants that discolored part of a nearby river, the U.S. Justice Department said. The […]

Source: Modern Contractor Solutions, February 2013 By: Jeff Slivka, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC Green has become the new mantra for the construction industry. As a result, contractors nationwide are increasingly striving to meet owner demands for projects that are not only designed with sustainable and eco-friendly products, but also achieve measurable results such as […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, March 12, 2013 By: Andrea Cortland, Cozen O’Connor On February 15, 2013 a Pennsylvania federal district court held that the shipment of defective drywall from China to the United States constituted one “occurrence” for purposes of insurance coverage, and the occurrence took place when the damage caused by the drywall manifested itself in […]