Source: Dow Jones News Service, November 7, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com (FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 11/7/13) Energy companies in Colorado are girding for a statewide battle over fracking next year after voters in three communities passed bans on hydraulic fracturing and a fourth town voted to continue to allow the practice by just a […]

Source: The Wisconsin State Journal, November 5, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The city and state want Madison-Kipp to remove tainted soil from a large drainage ditch between the company and Capital City Bike Trail. The city-owned “rain garden,” created in 2006 and planted with prairie plants to filter runoff, showed high levels of PCBs in […]

Source: Chicago Tribune, November 5, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is suing one of the companies piling up huge mounds of refinery waste on Chicago’s Southeast Side, adding new legal pressure to stop black clouds of dust from blowing into surrounding neighborhoods. In a complaint filed Monday in Cook County Circuit […]

Source: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 30, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Three companies that stored materials at a Westmoreland County scrap processing site between 1940 and 1970 owe the state about $2.3 million for cleaning up hazardous materials that seeped into the ground, the Department of Environmental Protection says in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The […]

Source: Austin American-Statesman (TX), October 31, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com About 400 barrels of Texas-produced crude oil spilled on a ranch south of Smithville, contaminating a stock pond and causing the temporary shutdown of the pipeline. No injuries were reported. The spill was discovered Monday afternoon said Jake Reint, spokesman for the Koch Pipeline Company. […]

Read here about a chili odor emanating from a factory in California that is the subject of a lawsuit.  

Source: http://www.lexology.com, October 22, 2013 By: Anne C. Foster, Baker & Hostetler LLP A recent article published in the Akron Beacon Journal indicates (click here) that of the 183 water-well complaints received by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) between 2010 and mid-October 2013, “only six water supplies were impacted by drilling over the […]

Read here about crude oil trains in the Northwest that may bring potential jobs but at the same time raises various concerns.

Source: The Hamilton Spectator (Ontario, Canada), October 26, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The federal government has confirmed it is backing away from assessing the environmental impact of new oilsands projects, one day after acknowledging it won’t come close to meeting greenhouse gas reduction targets. A final list of the types of projects that will require […]

Source: The Akron Beacon Journal, October 26, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owner of three now-closed motels in Northeast Ohio would pay a $225,000 fine to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency under a proposed consent decree. Jitendra Kapasi of Kent could get that fine reduced to $125,000 if he pays $100,000 within 24 months, under […]

Source: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 28, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An industrial treatment plant near Allegheny National Forest is dumping illegal amounts of salty, contaminant-laden wastewater from drillers into the Allegheny River in violation of state and federal laws, an environmental group charged in a federal lawsuit. The state director of Clean Water Action said […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 25, 2013 By: Scott Hennigh, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton Typically an architect is liable under its contract to the owner if it negligently creates a defective design. But whether an architect is liable for the effects of a defective design on parties with whom it has no contract has traditionally been […]