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 […]

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 […]