Source: http://enr.construction.com, May 7, 2012 By: Jack Buehrer As an engineer who specializes in natural-gas pipeline safety, Richard Kuprewicz has never been more in demand. Amid unprecedented production of natural gas and crude oil in the United States alone, Kuprewicz is busy fielding questions from contractors, engineers, federal regulators and the media about the safety […]

Source: The Boston Globe, May 6, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Tannery near condo complex For the next eight weeks, workers from the US Environmental Protection Agency will truck away mounds of arsenic-filled soil from a 28-unit residential complex where a tannery stood for 81 years. The arsenic was discovered in the last year when the […]

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Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 23, 2012 By: Laura A. Foggan, Jeremiah Galus and Samuel B. Gedge On April 20, 2012, the Supreme Court of Virginia, applying Virginia law, held that pollution exclusion endorsements in first-party property policies barred coverage for the insured’s product losses caused by contamination of infant formula resulting from a manufacturing mishap. Policyholder advocates […]

Source: http://www.dailyrecord.com, April 27, 2012 By: Peggy Wright State to get $950,000 for cost of cleaning 4 towns’ water supply A Florham Park alloy manufacturer and a deceased man’s estate have agreed to pay $950,000 toward the cleanup 14 years ago of contaminants found in a well that supplies drinking water to residents of four […]

Source: http://www.courier-journal.com, April 26, 2012 By: James Bruggers The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has identified at least three businesses that may be responsible for cleaning up toxic waste at the former Black Leaf chemical site in Louisville’s Park Hill neighborhood, two of whom have agreed to work with the EPA to help make the property […]

Source: Lexology, April 19, 2012 By: Michael E. Rigney, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP SCOTTSDALE INDEMNITY CO. V. VILLAGE OF CRESTWOOD (March 12, 2012) Crestwood, Illinois, a suburb outside of Chicago, uses both Lake Michigan and its own wells as sources for the water it supplies to its residents. A number of residents brought suit in […]

Source: Sedgwick Insurance Law Blog, April 17, 2012 By: Stevi Raab In Travelers Prop. Cas. Co. of America v. Chubb Custom Ins. Co., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44756 (E.D. Pa. Mar. 30, 2012), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, applying Pennsylvania law, considered whether noxious odors emanating from a pig farm […]

Dow Jones News Service, April 24, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Copper producer Freeport-McMoRan Corp. (FCX) and a subsidiary have agreed to pay $6.8 million to settle federal and state natural resource damage claims related to the Morenci copper mine in Arizona, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior said. The complaint, which was […]

Source: Dayton Daily News, April 22, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Complaints about bed bugs have significantly increased in Warren County in 2012 and have remained steady or increased in much of the Miami Valley this year as pest control specialists search for new methods of treatment and companies look for new products to test. Experts […]

Source: Birmingham News, April 19, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The U.S. Justice Department says current and former owners of an abandoned fuel storage facility in Bessemer failed to comply with state and federal environmental orders issued after petroleum leaked from the facility located near a creek, according to a civil lawsuit. The Justice Department filed […]

Source: The Sacremento Bee, April 22, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Without fanfare, Sacramento County has reached a $35 million settlement with Aerojet-General Corp. and Boeing Co. to put to rest years of negotiations over the costs of replacing groundwater contaminated a half century ago in eastern Sacramento County. The agreement reached in October closes a […]