Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 26, 2013 By: David Erickson and Mark Anstoetter, Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP The Louisiana Court of Appeals has ruled that a commercial pollution legal liability policy covered at least some costs to be incurred in connection with the insured’s resolution of the state’s environmental enforcement actions. Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, L.L.C. v. […]

Source: http://www.wicz.com, April 30, 2013 A response wasn’t long in coming, following the latest bit of news on a very controversial subject. Just one day after the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said methane found in private water wells in Franklin Forks Township was naturally occuring and not the result of natural gas development, one […]

Source: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN), May 1, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Minneapolis developer known for cleaning up industrial sites has plans to turn Fridley’s biggest and most polluted parcel into a sprawling business campus. Paul Hyde of Hyde Developments has been in discussion with city officials for nearly two years to buy 122 […]

Read here about a water pollution bill that is up for vote in Florida.

Source: The Sacramento Bee, May 1, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com In the latest sign of Democrats’ determination to rein in the disputed extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a California Assembly committee has advanced three bills that would halt the practice in the state for the foreseeable future. They were not the first […]

Pennsylvania environmental regulators on Monday concluded that Marcellus Shale drilling was not responsible for a high-profile case of methane contamination of private water wells in northeastern Pennsylvania. The state Department of Environmental Protection said it has closed the books on an investigation of the methane migration in Franklin Forks, Pa., which anti-drilling celebrities Yoko Ono […]

Source: The Washington Times, April 29, 2013 By: Ben Wolfgang After a 16-month investigation, state regulators Monday said that natural gas fracking, contrary to highly publicized claims, isn’t to blame for high methane levels in three families’ drinking water in a northern Pennsylvania town. For fracking proponents, it was another piece of good news. The […]

Read here about cleaning of contaminated sediment on the Hudson River that has just started its fourth year.  

Source: Niagara Gazette (NY), April 28, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A 2011 sewer line project that raised concerns about Love Canal-era contamination in Lasalle has prompted a lawsuit seeking damages for “grievously injured” residents of the Niagara Falls neighborhood. A complaint filed April 18 in State Supreme Court in Niagara County alleges that various parties […]

Read here about a decision that was made in Pennsylvania by state environmental regulators that says gas drilling is not responsible for water contamination.  

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 22, 2013 By: John B. Berringer, Reed Smith LLP After a spate of bad decisions for policyholders on whether general liability policies can ever provide coverage for construction liabilities, three courts, in the past few weeks, have done an about-face, holding that there is coverage in certain circumstances for such liabilities. Relying […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 10, 2013 By: Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP A buyer of contaminated property was held to have lost its ability to claim to be a non-liable “bona fide prospective purchaser” under CERCLA because it failed to act appropriately with respect to hazardous substances it found on the site. As a result, […]