Source: The New York Times, November 23, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com In energy-friendly Wyoming, oil and gas companies are getting a clear message: Drill, baby, drill — but carefully. Last week, state regulators approved one of the nation’s strongest requirements for testing water wells near drilling sites. The measure is intended to address concerns that […]

Read here about Beijing’s attempt to cut air pollution by destroying open air barbecues.

Source: Guardian (UK), November 28, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Fracking may be impractical in parts of Britain where water supplies are scarce, the water industry revealed as it announced a deal with the oil and gas industry. Hydraulic fracturing technology is a controversial process of shale gas and oil extraction where water and chemicals at […]

Source: Asian News International, November 27, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A new study has revealed how pollution causes thunderstorms to leave behind larger, deeper, longer lasting clouds. Researchers had thought that pollution causes larger and longer-lasting storm clouds by making thunderheads draftier through a process known as convection. But atmospheric scientist Jiwen Fan and her […]

Source: New York Time Online, November 25, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The first sign that something was amiss at Great Kills Park, on Staten Island, came in 2005 when a police flyover of New York City detected a positive reading for radioactive material there. The finding, part of a counterterrorism search, did not come as […]

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Read here about cleanup of a fuel leak in the Mississippi River in Iowa that resulted from a sunken towboat.

Source: http://www.daily-chronicle.com, November 15, 2013 By: Jillian Duchnowski Planning is underway to replace the Keslinger Road bridge that collapsed in August 2008, thanks to a recent $900,000 settlement with Enbridge Energy. The lawsuit filed in October 2011 was dismissed Thursday after DeKalb County and Afton Township officials reached an agreement that will allow crews to […]

Source: http://investigations.nbcnews.com, November 18, 2013 By: Rebecca LaFlure, The Center for Public Integrity The government’s multi-billion-dollar effort to clean up the nation’s largest nuclear dump has become its own dysfunctional mess. For more than two decades, the government has worked to dispose of 56 million gallons of nuclear and chemical waste in underground, leak-prone tanks […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, October 31, 2013 Bby: Jan A. Larson, Jenner & Block A Colorado state court applying Massachusetts law recently denied an insurer’s motion for summary judgment, holding that its absolute pollution exclusion and the term “pollutant” are ambiguous as applied to Chinese Drywall and should be construed in favor of coverage for the insured. […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, November 21, 2013 By: Meghan Grant A group of four property owners, including Cheridan Realty LLC that owns a commercial building on Commerce Road, are suing the owners of the Kane Tract in Carlstadt, claiming improper berm construction was to blame for the severity of the damage suffered due to Hurricane Sandy, a […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, November 18, 2013 By: Lane Powell PC For several years, design and construction professionals have been awaiting word from the Washington Supreme Court regarding whether aggrieved parties are limited to remedies set forth in their written contracts or whether they can pursue common law negligence claims. On November 14, the court decided Donatelli […]