Source: http://www.ibtimes.com, August 3, 2011 By: Federico Negro Last week I had the pleasure of presenting our work on the construction of the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame by Trahan Architects at the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) BIM Forum in Chicago. The event is meant to “facilitate and accelerate the adoption of […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, August 3, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com –Filed settlement might help to clean up century-old pollution –Companies involved include W.R. Grace, which will pay when it exits Chapter 11 –Proposed settlement calls for $300,000 in groundwater projects and $575,000 in other fish and wildlife projects DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Massachusetts officials filed […]

Source: Business Wire, August 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chartis has expanded NextGen Protection, a suite of environmental insurance solutions offered through its Environmental division, to further meet the needs of the project contractor. The latest product in the NextGen Protection suite is CPL ProjectProtectSM, which has been designed as a comprehensive environmental insurance solution to help […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, August 1, 2011 (From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) At a time when creating jobs is one of the nation’s top priorities, most tallies agree that the recent boom in gas drilling has put more people to work in Pennsylvania. But just how many new jobs the surge has generated in […]

Read here about a city in Wisconsin that has agreed to pay $270,000 to settle an asbestos lawsuit.

Source: http://omahanewsstand.com, July 28, 2011 By: Rachael Ruybalid A groundwater contaminant at the former Nebraska Ordnance Plant wandered where it wasn’t wanted this spring. During quarterly sampling in January and April at the perimeter monitoring well 116, trichloroethene (TCE), a solvent, was discovered in amounts exceeding the federal drinking water standards. “We suspect an irrigation well […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, July 29, 2011 By: Gina Jones, Ivy Riggs Fracking: Understanding the opportunities & challenges of the latest environmental liability exposures As the pace of change continues to increase at an exponential rate, many may find it challenging to keep up with yesterday’s trendy slang, much less that of today or tomorrow. So you […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, July 25, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com (From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL) Seattle has become a hotbed for cleaning up abandoned — and often contaminated — industrial sites known as brownfields and redeveloping them for office buildings, shopping centers and other uses. Such large-scale cleanups could be replicated elsewhere as local […]

Read here about a Florida Chinese drywall supplier ordered to release more information in a muli-million-dollar class action lawsuit.

Read here about a report recently released that shows that fewer chicken farms are concentrating waste.

Source: USAToday.com, July 31, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com NASA spent decades to send men to the moon, launch the space shuttles and build a laboratory in space, and now it will take a century to clean up the chemical messes left behind. Plumes of carcinogenic chemicals used in the launching of the space shuttles, Apollo […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, July 24, 2011 By: Judy Greenwald Challenges facing risk managers and insurers in developing errors and omissions coverage for “green” construction projects are similar to but also different than standard construction risks. The difference generally is found in new technology and materials, which are untested and often experimental, and can lead to unfounded […]