Read here about a Mississippi company that is appealing a $7.6 million award to the family of man claiming to have contracted silicosis as a result of his job with the company.

Source: San Mateo County Times (CA), January 31, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Bay Area meat-processing company has agreed to pay a $685,446 penalty and spend about $6 million on a new refrigeration unit as a result of two anhydrous ammonia leaks in 2009 at a South San Francisco facility, one of which injured nearly […]

Read here about a casino construction site in Ohio where a floor collapsed in injured a dozen people.

Source: http://www.brownfieldrenewal.com By: Barry R. Geisler As a result of the ongoing economic downturn, General Contractors (GC), Construction Managers, trade contractors, remediation contractors and all others who face daily environmental risks are facing unprecedented challenges in their efforts to remain competitive. With stiff competition on each project, it is easy to overlook a very important […]

Read here about the discovery of Legionnaires’ disease at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.

Source: http://www.nj.com, January 27, 2012 By: Carly Q. Romalino An insurance dispute related to municipal coverage in the Kiddie Kollege toxic exposure trial ended in favor of Franklin Township after months of arbitration talks with its environmental issue insurance carrier that attempted to revoke coverage. In a 2-1 vote, a panel of three arbiters decided […]

Source: http://www.star-telegram.com, January 29, 2012 By: Jack Z. Smith A state district judge has ruled that a Parker County couple lack legal jurisdiction to sue Fort Worth-based Range Resources in a high-profile case involving methane contamination of their water well. Judge Trey Loftin of the 43rd District Court in Weatherford made his ruling late Friday. […]

Source: http://www.newschief.com, January 27, 2012 By: Mary Hurst An environmental cleanup has started on the old Louis Matthews’ property. The late Matthews had operated a filling station and automotive repair business on the property. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection began the environmental clean-up this week with grant funds. The property is now owned by […]

Source: The Wenatchee World (WA), January 26, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An old, buried landfill is hampering Wenatchee’s plans to sell its waterfront property. The city had hoped to sell the approximately 3-acre site on Worthen Street near the eastern end of Riverwalk Crossing for $1.9 million. It is centrally located in an area that the […]

Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH), January 26, 2012 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com The most-painful moment of Tuesday night’s State of the Union address — painful to both political parties and the independents watching — might have been the joke that fell flat when President Barack Obama told it. “We got rid of one rule from 40 years […]

Source: http://www.csindy.com, January 26, 2012 By: Pam Zubeck On a brisk morning in mid-October, El Paso County Commissioner Dennis Hisey and two county staffers took a trip. They joined an Ultra Resources engineer, geologist and land manager on a private jet bound for the Pinedale Anticline, an 80-square-mile area in southwest Wyoming that’s rich with […]

Read here about a Florida hotel that is suing BP over lost business after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.