Source: http://www.ct.gov, November 4, 2016 The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) and the Department of Public Health (DPH) announced today that air and ground sampling and monitoring will be conducted after asbestos was found in the soil at the site of a CTDOT project involving the design and reconstruction of Exit 33 on I-95 in […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, December 7, 2016 By: Fausto Giovanny Pinto A former environmental officer is suing Paterson Schools, claiming the district mishandled numerous environmental issues like mold and asbestos removal in violation of federal regulations. Brenda Zemo, an Environmental Occupational Health and Safety Officer since 2008, claims she was subjected to a hostile workplace after she […]

Source: http://kcur.org, October 26, 2016 By: Dan Margolies Up to 7,500 people who worked in the Jackson County Courthouse after a retrofit dispersed asbestos throughout the building will be eligible for medical monitoring under an $80 million settlement reached Tuesday night. The settlement was agreed to after a jury was chosen but before the class-action […]

Source: http://www.nbc-2.com, August 12, 2016 By: David Hodges Robert Wagner wishes someone had told him that his home was likely riddled with defects and that his walls were rotting away from the inside. And told him that the builder, Beazer Homes, wasn’t going to do the work unless he told them to. “By the time […]

Source: http://www.tampabay.com, September 1, 2016 By: Megan Reeves A handful of blunders by Tampa Bay area contractors nearly 10 years ago have caused a moldy mess in the attic of East Lake Fire Rescue, officials say, and repairs could cost as much as $350,000. The department, 3375 Tarpon Lake Blvd., is suing three companies they […]

Source: http://www.fdlreporter.com, September 1, 2016 By: Madeline Zukowski Three gas main leaks in the month of August were caused as construction crews or city personnel hit gas lines. On Aug. 5, city personnel were digging up a water main when they hit a four-inch gas line on Doty Street. Ten people were evacuated from their […]

Source: https://www.casino.org, August 23, 2016 By: Katie Barlowe The City of Somerville, Massachusetts is dropping its legal challenge against Wynn Resorts’ effort to build its $2.1 billion resort, the Wynn Boston Harbor, in the neighboring city of Everett. That means for that, the first time since the casino giant was awarded the sole east Massachusetts […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, August 22, 2016 By: Anthony Bartell, Adam Budesheim, Louis A. Chiafullo, J. Wylie Donald, Joseph F. Fields and Ira M. Gottlieb, McCarter & English LLP In an important recent decision, New Jersey joined a growing number of states holding that Insurance Services Office’s (ISO) 1986 comprehensive general liability (CGL) policy extends coverage to […]

Source: http://www.cem.va.gov What Do You Need to Consider? Do you perform clearing, grading, or excavation activities? Do you build roads, golf courses, playing fields, homes, or buildings? Are you involved in demolition activities? Will you discharge dredged or fill material to a waterway or wetland? Are you involved in tunnel or pipeline projects? If so, […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, June 17, 2016 By: Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Cincinnati Insurance Co. v. Roy’s Plumbing, Inc., 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 75958 (W.D.N.Y. June 10, 2016), the United States District Court for the Western District of New York had occasion to consider the application of a pollution exclusion […]

Source: http://kxan.com, June 3, 2016 By: Kevin Schwaller A contractor on a 39-story condo project in downtown Austin is facing a city pollution charge. KXAN News obtained court records detailing a case for “pollutants discharged” against Rogers O’Brien Gilbane, LLC, a contractor on the 5th & West project at the intersection of Fifth Street and […]

Source: http://www.omaha.com, April 22, 2016 By: Emily Nitcher Bill Vance’s house slippers were wet. It was the 74-year-old Bellevue man’s first indication, on Feb. 29, that something was wrong in the basement of his home on Hancock Street. Next came the smell. Two to three inches of murky brown water, including some human waste, had […]