Source: Mortgage Servicing News, July 3, 2006 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The steady growth of mold litigation has not slowed in the commercial and resident real estate industries, according to the Greenguard Environmental Institute, which says this expanding legal gray area has compelled lenders to protect their mortgage portfolios by working with insurers and environmental consultants […]

Read here about a report that found accidents at high risk biolabs to be on the increase.

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.telegram.com, March 26, 2011 By: Martin Luttrell The owner of the Bancroft Commons apartment building downtown pleaded guilty in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston yesterday to the improper removal and disposal of asbestos and for failing to provide pay records and evading unemployment insurance payments. Worcester Commons LLC and JM Realty Management Inc., real estate […]

Source: Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY, March 23, 2011 Contractors working on refurbishing the sidewalk canopies in the city’s Uptown business district have found asbestos that will have to be removed, Mayor James Sottile said on Tuesday. Sottile said the amount of asbestos is unknown and that a deeper examination will be needed. The mayor said […]

Source: http://www.itemlive.com A Lynnfield asbestos removal company, its owners and an employee have been indicted for the improper removal and disposal of asbestos for work performed on numerous public and private buildings in the city of Lynn, Beverly and Marblehead, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced in a press release. AEI Environmental, LLC (AEI), David Harder, […]

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com, March 23, 2011 The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division has fined a Newport retailer for asbestos violations. OSHA issued three citations, totaling $300 in fines, to the Dollar Tree Store for failure to identify the asbestos, repair or remove it and for failing to provide employees with an awareness training course. The […]

Source: http://www.newsinferno.com, March 15, 2011 Another bed bug lawsuit is making headlines, this time in Maryland. Sam Alfrey, the plaintiff in a small claims case against the owner of the Travelers Hotel LLC brought a bottle of dead bed bugs to court in a lawsuit seeking $2,480 for the rent he has paid since moving […]

Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA), February 23, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owner of 20 Jiffy Lube stores in Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties has paid a $130,000 fine for violating environmental regulations, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced. Jiffy Lubes owned by M.C. LLC failed to mark and label tanks […]

Publication Date 05/18/2010 Source: New York Times Online In what the Justice Department has described as the largest vehicle and engine importation case brought by the United States to date under the Clean Air Act, the Pep Boys automotive parts and repair chain has agreed to pay a record $5 million fine. The Environmental Protection […]

Read here about a lawsuit claiming bedbugs at the Waldorf in NY.

Publication Date: 11/06/2010 Source: Record-Eagle, The (Traverse City, MI) Nov. 06–GREILICKVILLE — Additional contamination discovered at a former dry-cleaning and laundry business forced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand cleanup efforts there. The EPA planned to remove about 380 cubic yards of contaminated soil at the former Grand Traverse Overall Supply Co. site on […]