Source: Wisconsin State Journal, September 2, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Testing has turned up a probable culprit in the contamination of the Madison Water Utility’s Well No. 15 on the city’s East Side: cleaning solvents from a defunct dry cleaning shop on Lien Road. Concerned about the well’s increasing levels of tetrachloroethylene, utility officials contracted […]

Read here about a utility in South Carolina that settled a lawsuit alleging illegal discharge of contaminants.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com, August 23, 2012 Jury Finds Dow Chemical Subsidiary Union Carbide And Others Responsible For Knowingly Using Cancer Causing Asbestos Products. DALLAS (PRWEB) August 23, 2012 In June 2012, the family of a mesothelioma patient was awarded $48 million by a Los Angeles Superior Court jury after finding Dow subsidiary Union Carbide Corp., Riverside Cement, […]

Read here about a settlement that has been reached in a case alleging improperly handled and disposed radioactive waste in Kentucky.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 16, 2012 By: Cori C. Steinmann, Sedgwick LLP Since the late 1990s, there has been a boom in natural gas and oil drilling across the United States. It is estimated that 13,000 new natural gas wells are drilled each year, or about 35 wells per day. According to the U.S. Energy Information […]

Read here about a ruling by the Supreme Court in New Mexico that states that company’s insurance may cover contamination clean-up at former mine.

Source: http://www.npr.org, August 28, 2012 By: Scott Detrow Mike and Nancy Leighton’s problems began on May 19, just as Mike was settling in to watch the Preakness Stakes. A neighbor in Leroy Township, Pa., called Mike and told him to check the water well located just outside his front door. “I said, ‘I’ll be down […]

Read here about a lawsuit that has been filed in Virginia as a result of mold found in military housing.

Source: The Ashland Daily Tidings (Oregon), August 24, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An insurance group that covers the Ashland Gun Club and city of Ashland is arguing that it has no responsibility to pay any damages related to lead contamination from ammunition. In a case filed in April in U.S. District Court in Medford, underwriters […]

Read here about the Walt Disney Studios in California being investigated as a possible source of groundwater contamination.

Source: The Washington Post, August 22, 2012 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com When a 43-year-old female lung transplant patient arrived at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in June 2011, the hospital’s infection control team was on high alert. The woman carried a “superbug” resistant to all but two antibiotics, and the NIH staff wanted to […]

Source: Chicago Tribune, August 21, 2012 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Three cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been linked to a downtown Chicago hotel, and public health officials and the hotel are reaching out to more than 8,000 people who stayed there to warn them of possible exposure. Guests who stayed at the Marriott Chicago Hotel at […]