Source: The USGlass News Network, May 10, 2012 By: Penny Stacey The recovery is underway. This was the general consensus among experts participating in a recent webinar that focused on the economy and the construction market. “We have seen a steep decline in nonresidential construction,” said Kermit Baker, chief economist for the American Institute of Architects (AIA). […]

Source: Construction Executive, May 2012 By: Paul Breitner and Doron Weiss The feeling of accomplishment that accompanies the completion of a new condominium building can sour when buyers raise claims of construction defects after closing on their units. A dream project can quickly become a nightmare if flaws, either patent or latent, are discovered after the […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 2, 2012 By: H. Victor Thomas Jr (Victor), King & Spalding LLP The development of natural gas wells using hydraulic fracturing technology—fracking—has grown exponentially and increased natural gas reserves to record levels. Hydraulic fracturing requires the discharge of significant volumes of hydraulic fracturing fluids into a geologic formation under extreme pressure in […]

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 […]