Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Environmental advocates in the region worry that the State Building Commission’s approval of the University of Tennessee’s request to seek natural gas drilling bids on UT property sets a bad precedent for publicly owned land. If the UT school of forestry can shop hydraulic […]

Read here about a fracking rush that is being seen in the southern counties of Illinois.  

Read here about some top priorities, including a fracking moratorium, that have been set in NY by environmental and public interest groups.  

Read here about a site in Pennsylvania where gas drilling can resume after fracking fluid was spilled.

Read here about fines that will be paid to settle violations by ethanol plants in South Dakota.

Read here about plans by the EPA to clean up contaminated soil and groundwater at the site of a former coal gas site.

Read here about a landfill in Rhode Island that has been fined thousands after toxic wastewater flowed into sewage treatment plant.  

Source: Lodi News-Sentinel (CA), April 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Save Mart Supermarkets must pay $2.6 million in civil penalties, costs and expenses for supplemental environmental projects furthering consumer protection and environmental enforcement in the state in a settlement reached Tuesday with 35 California district attorneys. The civil enforcement action was filed in San Joaquin […]

Read here about thousands of barrels of oil and water that have been recovered after a pipeline ruptured in Arkansas.  

Source: http://www.metropolismag.com, April 4, 2013 By: Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros Something surprising has happened with many so-called “sustainable” buildings. When actually measured in post-occupancy assessments, they’ve proven far less sustainable than their proponents have claimed. In some cases they’ve actually performed worse than much older buildings, with no such claims. A 2009 New York […]

Source: Straits Times (Singapore), April 3, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A new “environmental time bomb” is ticking away in China, according to a new Greenpeace report citing tonnes of hazardous waste being dumped illegally by fertiliser manufacturers near residential areas. Investigations carried out by the environmental activist group in several areas in south-western Sichuan province […]

Read here about a manufacturing company in Iowa that has been fined by the EPA for mishandling hazardous waste.