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 […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, April 10, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Despite having unleashed a natural gas supply boom that is transforming the U.S. energy landscape and receiving extensive attention from the media, the practice of hydraulic fracturing is unfamiliar to most consumers, according to a poll conducted by the University of Texas at Austin. […]

Source: Business Wire, April 12, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Great American Insurance Group’s Environmental Division is pleased to announce that it is now offering $35 million per occurrence/ $70 million policy aggregate limits of liability for its complete pollution product line. These expanded limits of liability will be offered on both a primary and an […]

Read here about a Pennsylvania judge who halted a section of a Marcellus Shale law that limits municipalities from regulating the natural gas exploration industry.

Source: Construction Business Owner, December 2011 By: Robert J. Connor, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC Establish expectations and carefully assess sustainable products to successfully complete LEED projects. The eco-friendly construction movement has become a powerful force that has spread throughout the world at an incredible speed and forced designers and contractors to either go green […]

Source: Albuquerque Journal (NM), April 8, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Groundwater pollution got a lot of attention in recent years, as Santa Fe County found itself having to clean up petroleumcontaminated dirt and water in the construction of the new courthouse at Montezuma Avenue and Sandoval Street. But that’s not the only pollution plume in […]

Source: http://www.lowellsun.com, March 29, 2012 By Chris Camire Four companies face fines as high as $80,000 for improperly disposing of asbestos from the former Sun newspaper building in downtown Lowell. The civil penalties were announced by Attorney General Martha Coakley yesterday. According to the complaint filed yesterday in Suffolk Superior Court, JDL Inc. of Dracut, and […]

Source: Constructor Magazine, March 20, 2012 By: Jeff Slivka, Executive Vice President/Chief Operating Officer Even though the professional liability marketplace has expanded greatly in recent years, construction project owners still have few cost-effective alternatives offered on a project-specific basis. The first and most recognized options insure only the design team and will add the owner […]

Read here about the booming business for meth lab cleanup companies.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 30, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The seven municipalities that banded together in recent weeks in opposition to the state’s Marcellus Shale gas drilling law filed a suit Thursday, arguing that lawmakers unconstitutionally intruded on local zoning duties by mandating where drilling can occur. The municipalities — Cecil, Peters, Mount Pleasant and […]