Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, February 3, 2012 By: Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Sunnyside Dev. Co., LLC v. Chartis Specialty Ins. Co., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9392 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 26, 2012), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York demonstrated the consequences that an insurer faces when allowing […]

Source: Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA), February 3, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A lawsuit claiming a boy was sickened by longstanding moldy conditions at his elementary school will move forward against the School Board and two of its employees, albeit with fewer claims, a judge decided this week. Circuit Judge Rodham T. Delk Jr. dismissed claims of simple negligence […]

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 19, 2012 Posted on: http://www.hispanicbusiness.com Patriot Coal Corp. has agreed to pay $7.5 million civil penalty and install pollution treatment systems at some of its West Virginia mining complexes to settle a lawsuit filed by a coalition of environmental groups last year. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in […]

Read here about a lawsuit that was settled after a group of farmers sued a Missouri company over the chemical, hexavalent chromium.

Read here about some Tennessee property owners who are waiting on a judge’s decision 3 years after a sludge spill.

Read here about a Superfund site in Montana where contamination resulted from a former dry cleaner could take more than 30 years to clean up.

Source: Mail Tribune (Medford, OR), December 6, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A downtown Ashland hotel is under investigation for illegally discharging water containing potentially fish-killing toxics into Ashland Creek when its heating and air-conditioning system malfunctioned recently, authorities said. The Ashland Springs Hotel’s heating and air-conditioning unit overflowed on Nov. 19, causing water treated with […]

Source: San Mateo County Times (CA), November 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Sausage maker Columbus Foods Inc. has settled a lawsuit filed by its neighbor Genentech over a large-scale noxious ammonia leak in South San Francisco that sickened nearly three dozen of the biotech giant’s employees in 2009. According to a statement from Genentech, the […]

Source: http://www.foxnews.com, October 27, 2011 Hundreds of students in Maryland will get a crash course in water-borne living when they are moved onto a cruise ship this weekend to escape the mold that has overtaken their college dorm rooms. The students from St. Mary’s College are being forced off-campus by wet weather that has dogged […]

Source: http://content.usatoday.com, October 3, 2011 By: Douglas Stanglin A massive industrial fire at a chemical processing plant is sending plumes of black smoke into the sky near Waxahachie, in north-central Texas, The Dallas Morning News reports. The fire began before noon at the Magnablend chemical processing plant and quickly spread as a burning liquid. At one […]

Read here about a Texas company that paid a hefty fine for a wetlands violation.

Read here about two New Hampshire companies who will pay $200,000 for Clean Water Act violations.