Read here about a dairy farm in Minneapolis that is being sued by homeowners claiming  pollution.

Source: Connecticut Post, August 21, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Federal regulators working to detoxify the town’s decades-old Raymark Superfund site are finalizing a new proposal to address the 500-acre pool of severely polluted groundwater buried beneath about 100 homes along Housatonic Avenue. The Environmental Protection Agency is set to unveil a feasibility study sometime this […]

Source: The Ashland Daily Tidings (Oregon), August 21, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The city of Ashland may have to spend $75,500 and give up a parcel of its own land after environmental testing revealed lead shotgun pellets from the Ashland Gun Club have contaminated neighboring property. James Miller, who owns 12 rural acres between the […]

Read here about a Pennsylvania company that has been given the okay by environmental officials to resume a gas drilling procedure.

Read here about a West Virginia company that has been fine $81,000 for health and safety violations relating to asbestos removal.

Source: The New York Times, August 13, 2012 By: Anthony DePalma This is not what a Superfund site is supposed to look like. There are no rusting barrels, no antifreeze-green slime oozing up from the ground. There’s just a deep bend in the serpentine Passaic River, a gaggle of pushy Canada geese and a lone […]

Source: Hunton & Williams LLP, August 8, 2012 Posted on: http://www.lexology.com In Scottsdale Insurance Company v. Morrow Valley Land Valley Company, No. 11-905, 2012 WL 1950247 (Ark. May 31, 2012), the Supreme Court of Arkansas held that a pollution exclusion in a commercial general liability insurance policy was ambiguous and, therefore, did not bar a […]

Source: Taft Stettinius & HOllister LLP, William C. Wagner, August 9, 2012 Posted on: http://www.lexology.com A federal district court recently entered summary judgment against a dry cleaner on a property owner’s CERCLA claim for past response costs and declaratory judgment claim regarding future response costs, and allowed the property owner’s RCRA claims to proceed to […]

Source: Business Insurance, August 9, 2012 The California Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that policyholders involved in long-tail environmental claims can “stack” coverage limits over multiple policy years and can take an “all-sums” approach to indemnity allocation. The unanimous ruling in the State of California vs. Continental Insurance Co. et al. affirms an appellate court’s […]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI), August 6, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com West Shore Pipe Line Co. is expected to submit a ground water remediation plan to the state Department of Natural Resources by Wednesday that will describe how the company will remove and treat gasoline-tainted ground water in the Town of Jackson, a state environmental […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), August 6, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The operator of a truck terminal in Institute has agreed to pay a $49,756 fine for allegedly violating state pollution laws. Quala Systems Inc., headquartered in Exton, Pa., agreed to pay the fine for allegedly violating its permit to operate a disposal system for the […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Insurance giant AIG will pay nearly $79 million to the Los Angeles Unified School District to settle a lawsuit over its failure to pay claims on properties with environmental and pollution hazards, The Times has learned. Although AIG admitted no wrongdoing, the $78.8-million settlement, combined […]