Source: http://articles.boston.com, May 30, 2011 A Maine quarry owner and contractor has signed an agreement with the city of Augusta acknowledging a subcontractor failed to notify neighbors of two quarry blasts that sent dust into local neighborhoods. Contractor Steve McGee agreed to pay $3,500 through subcontractor Maine Drilling and Blasting, which wrote the check. McGee […]

Source: http://www.scpr.org, May 24, 2011 By: Molly Peterson Homeowners in Carson’s Carousel neighborhood have faced setbacks in their efforts to hold developers and the Shell Oil company responsible for toxic soil under their houses. Regional water regulators have told Shell to clean up what was for 40 years a tank farm with open reservoirs of […]

Source: Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), May 24, 1011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Electronic components maker AVX Corp. has purchased the Myrtle Beach property that it contaminated with a suspected carcinogen called trichloroethylene, according to Horry County property records. AVX paid nearly $4.6 million for the approximately 21.5-acre parcel previously owned by Horry Land Co., according to a […]

Source:  http://www.wlfi.com, May 24, 2011 By: Tiffanie Dismore Attorneys are calling a Kraft Global Foods settlement one of the first successful environmental lawsuits of its kind. Those involved in the class action lawsuit against a multi-billion dollar Kraft are comparing it to a biblical story. “It was back and forth negotiations like David and Goliath,” said […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), May 24, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The expansion of West Virginia’s natural gas industry could open up new battlefronts in the courtroom over the protection of property rights, health and the environment. Some of the legal uncertainty may result from the failure so far of state lawmakers to settle questions […]

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: Marin Independent Journal (CA), May 16, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com More than three years after a treatment plant spilled millions of gallons of sewage into Richardson Bay, a collection agency that feeds into the plant wants to hold the city of Mill Valley — the plant’s contract operator — legally and financially responsible. An […]

Read here about an egg producer recently fined nearly $2 million by the EPA.

Read here about a group of over 250 Texas residents who have filed lawsuits against four companies for hexavalent chromium contamination in their neighborhood.

Source:  Joplin Globe (MO), May 7, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Twelve Barton County plaintiffs, who alleged their way of life was turned upside down when a factory hog farm began operations in 2007 near their rural homes, were awarded $1.95 million in damages Saturday by a jury in Henry County. In closing arguments Friday, the […]

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 26, 2008 By: Jane M. Von Bergen In the ’70s, it sent waste to a Bucks farm. Little did it know what happened then, it says, setting aside $21 million for cleanup. In 1969, a Bucks County chemist bought a farm on Lonely Cottage Road in Upper Black Eddy, a […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, March 20, 2008 An Environmental Protection Agency appeals board has upheld a $3 million penalty against a Virginia company that owns gas stations in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The Environmental Appeals Board filed a complaint in 2002 against Euclid of Virginia Inc. for violating rules meant to detect and prevent fuel leaks […]