Source: Houston Chronicle, September 10, 2013 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Tons of toxic gases spewed from a tower at BP’s Texas City refinery for more than 40 days in 2010 without warning to the public. This week four of more than 48,000 residents who sued BP claiming health damage from the release will be the first […]

Source: The Economist, September 7, 2013 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com How much should upwind states care if their filth blows next door? “ON SOME days even if we shut down the entire state, we would be in violation of some health standards because of pollution coming over from other states.” Thus the late Senator Frank Lautenberg […]

Source: http://www.4-traders.com, September 10, 2013 XL Group’s North America Environmental business unveiled a series of pollution insurance policy enhancements to help municipalities address their specific environmental risk management needs and protect their budgets from unexpected clean up and other expenses. “Communities provide their residents with a variety of services that can pose a pollution threat,” […]

Source: http://www.baltimorebrew.com, September 9, 2013 By: Mark Reutter City Council slated to give final approval tonight of the contentious $107 million financing package for Harbor Point. On the eve of tonight’s expected approval of a $107 million financing package for Harbor Point by the City Council, a group of Fells Point residents is seeking answers […]

Source: Business Monitor International, September 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com News: US-based supermarket chain Safeway is to pay US$600,000 and has agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from refrigeration equipment at its 659 US stores, reports USA Today. The company’s fine and agreed action make up the terms of a settlement it reached with the […]

Source: Ventura County Star (CA), September 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog is asking a Sacramento judge to halt the demolition and removal of buildings and contaminated waste from an area of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory used as a nuclear test site. Boeing Co., which owns most of the 2,800-acre […]

Read here about dredging activity that will take please in an effort to clean up an oil spill.  

Source: http://lakezurich.suntimes.com, September 5, 2013 By: Laura Pavin Community Unit School District 95 recently approved a settlement agreement with the last of the five companies whose work allegedly led to structural issues at Spencer Loomis Elementary School and Middle School North in Hawthorn Woods. Ending a six-year-old lawsuit, school board members agreed in August to […]

Source: http://www.tampabay.com, September 3, 2013 By: Anna M. Phillips Pinellas County is suing the two companies it hired years ago to design and build several water treatment facilities for Lake Seminole as part of an attempt to reduce water pollution. The lawsuit, filed Aug. 21, claims that Environmental Research and Design and Tampa Contracting Services […]

Source: Akron Beacon Journal (OH), September 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Carroll County is the reigning Utica shale capital of Ohio. With 319 wells permitted, Carroll represents nearly 38 percent of the 858 wells the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has approved since late 2010. Chesapeake Energy, the No. 1 driller in Ohio, staked out […]

Read here about an Illinois sand company that has reached a settlement with the EPA over air pollution violations.  

Source: Dow Jones News Service, September 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Safeway Inc. (SWY) has agreed to pay a penalty of $600,000 and spend around $4.1 million to reduce its emissions of ozone-depleting substances and resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act, U.S. officials said. The supermarket company was accused of violating the […]