Source: http://www.lexology.com By: Steven M. Siros, Jenner & Block On November 21, 2012, a federal district court in Wisconsin rejected PRP efforts to seek modification of the remedial plan established by U.S. EPA and the State of Wisconsin to address PCB-contaminated sediments in the Fox River. In 2010, U.S. EPA and the State of Wisconsin […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, December 5, 2012 By: Andrea Wells After four years of one of the most challenging construction markets, construction insurance experts are beginning to see signs of a slow recovery with some of their contractor and builder accounts. The current opportunities are in apartment buildings, energy facilities, education, hospitals and other healthcare-related facilities. When […]

Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA), December 1, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Environmental groups are seeking to force state officials to implement strict rules for farm water runoff with a lawsuit filed Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court. The lawsuit alleges the state Water Resources Control Board acted unlawfully when, in September, it delayed reporting and monitoring […]

Read here a about closing arguments that have been made in a Maryland Poultry suit.  

Source: The State, Columbia, SC, December 2, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Cooking was easy until Peggy Wise learned that toxins were polluting her family’s water supply. Soon after the discovery two years ago near Pelion, state regulators installed a filter system under her kitchen sink to provide clean drinking water. But the system is limited […]

Read here about a Nebraska company that has agreed to pay a half million dollars to help cover environmental cleanup costs.  

Source: Maryland Gazette, December 1, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owners of a tire dump in Crownsville face as much as $32 million in civil penalties after the Maryland Department of the Environment filed an injunction to get the dump cleaned up. Maryland’s attorney general filed a request on Nov. 19 in Anne Arundel County […]

Source: Reading Eagle (PA), November 29, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Tilden Township mobile home park owner was charged Wednesday with illegally discharging untreated sewage into a Schuylkill River tributary and falsifying permit applications, the state Attorney General’s office reported. Frank Perano, 55, of the 2800 block of Main Street, Morgantown, faces three counts of […]

Read here about a copper mine site in Vermont where clean-up is nearing completion after ten years.

Source: Business Wire, November 28, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Fitch Ratings estimates industry asbestos reserves to be deficient by $2 billion to $8 billion at year-end 2011. Asbestos reserves make up approximately 4% of total property/casualty industry reserves with approximately 50% of reserves concentrated in five insurers. In a new report, Fitch examines a range […]

Source: Modesto Bee (CA), November 28, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Stanislaus County and Modesto are in a legal dispute regarding who is responsible for environmental work and the cleanup of pollutants that are released from the former Geer Road landfill. In April 2011, state authorities ordered the county to take more aggressive cleanup action for […]

Source: Daily Mail, London England, November 27, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com LIVING near a busy road could treble the risk of childhood autism, scientists warned yesterday. Exposure to air pollution in the womb or during the first year of life was linked to a twofold increase in a child’s chances of having the disorder. But […]