Source: http://www.capecodonline.com, April 5, 2009 By: Doug Fraser For nearly 60 minutes, gas-fueled flames shot into the night sky at the Cape Cod Animal Hospital March 9, fed by a wide-open natural gas line that had blown off at the meter in an explosion that destroyed several rooms at one end of the sprawling clinic. […]

Source: Oakland Tribune, April 7, 2005 For about a year, Lupe Gaytan climbed up and down the 50-foot cofferdam ladders to weld inside the steel legs of the partially built Bay Bridge. When he started, his lungs were fine, he said, referring to a piece of paper indicating he was healthy enough to be fully […]

Source: http://www.theday.com, June 15, 2011 By: Karen Florin Conservancy claims work was harmful to environment The excavators and wrecking balls are long gone from the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, but the demolition of dozens of homes by the New London Development Corp. is still being litigated in a city courtroom. The heavy machinery’s presence was vindicated […]

Read here about a $55 million Chinese drywall settlement that has been reached with Florida homeowners.

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Source: http://www.strausnews.com, May 27, 2011 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday released a plan to remove contaminated soil from the site of former lagoons at the Nepera Chemical Company Superfund site in Hamptonburgh. The 29.3-acre site is a former industrial waste disposal facility. Between 1953 and 1967, lagoons at the site received approximately 50,000 […]

Source: Post & Courier (Charleston, SC), May 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Mark Teseniar was skeptical when his telephone rang in 2007. On the line were his tenants who had just moved into a Johns Island condominium that he and his wife, Nan, own at Twelve Oaks at Fenwick, off Maybank Highway. “They complained pretty […]

Source: http://www.kentucky.com, April 29, 2011 By: Dori Hjalmarson Four coal companies have settled a lawsuit by 91 residents along Quicksand Creek in Breathitt County who claimed poor reclamation of surface mines exacerbated flooding after heavy rains in May 2009. The terms of the settlement are confidential, said the plaintiffs’ attorney Ned Pillersdorf, but others called […]

Source:  The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 9, 2009 By: Jan Heffler The now-shuttered Kiddie Kollege Day Care in Gloucester County is not the only place where children have inhaled poisonous mercury vapors, according to a national study. Children were exposed to the vapors in hundreds of cases over a six-year period ended in 2007. Fourteen incidents […]

Source: http://www.nbc-2.com, April 14, 2011 The amount of asbestos discovered at the Summerlin overpass project is in excess of the legal limit, according to a report from ARMC, the asbestos consulting company. ARMC sent an email to Lee County and the Department of Environmental Protection notifying them of the amount of asbestos found at the site. […]

Source: http://www.pnwlocalnews.com, March 31, 2011 By: Jessica Hoch Winslow Way reconstruction workers discovered contaminated soil near Madison Avenue this week, but city officials said the amount was not unexpected and the project is moving along without delay. About two to three truckloads of fuel-based contaminated soils were located at the corner of Madison Avenue and […]

Source: http://www.14wfie.com, April 1, 2011 By: Araceli Thiele Is it wise to start removing asbestos from a school when school is still in session? A question being asked in Carmi, Illinois. In March a letter was sent out to parents notifying them of asbestos removal at Carmi White County High School. School officials say although it […]