Source: Law360, Janauary 16, 2013 By: Ama Sarfo Odors emanating from a Roxbury, N.J., landfill that has battled with the state and a proposed class of residents are a nuisance, but not a health hazard, a court-appointed independent environmental expert said in a report Tuesday. Following a request from Morris County Superior Court Judge Deanne […]

Source: Law360, January 16, 2013 By: Matt Fair Minutes after he was sworn in as the state’s new auditor general on Tuesday, Eugene DePasquale said his office would undertake a sweeping investigation into potential water pollution resulting from the hydraulic fracturing boom in the state’s Marcellus Shale region. DePasquale, a former Democratic legislator in the […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 15, 2013 By: Brian Margolies, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLC In its recent decision in Hardy Oil Co. v. Nationwide Agribusiness Ins. Co., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4760 (E.D. Ky. Jan. 11, 2013), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky had occasion to consider the application of […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, January 15, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com In addition to widespread power outages and property damage, Hurricane Sandy also generated a host of other issues for employers. One issue that local employers face is whether their worksites contain biological or chemical hazards due to flooding or contamination. A common concern for employers […]

Source: Philadelphia Daily News, January 15, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com IT WAS JAN. 18, 2011 — just a day before Gov. Corbett took the oath of office — when, without warning, trucks started rolling one after another into a once-abandoned industrial site in the Susquehanna River town of Sunbury, Pa. At the end of that […]

Source: New Hampshire Union Leader, January 14, 2013 By: Dave Solomon Attorneys for Citgo Petroleum Corp. called for a mistrial on Monday only half way into the first day of what many observers believe is the largest civil trial in New Hampshire history. Superior Court Justice Judge Peter H. Fauver denied the motion, but agreed […]

Source: The Baltimore Sun, January 14, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The operator of three coal-fired power plants in Maryland has agreed to pay a total of $2.2 million in penalties and fix long-standing pollution problems at the landfills in Southern Maryland and Montgomery County where it disposes of the ash from those plants, according to […]

Read here about reactions of environmentalists to the Perdue lawsuit outcome.  

Source: Chicago Tribune, January 13, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Thousands of landowners downstate have sold their rights to drill for oil and natural gas for upfront fees ranging from $50 to $350 per acre, plus a cut of the profits. Others are fighting to prevent the drilling out of fear that they could be exposed […]

Read here about a Superfund site in New Jersey that is nearing completion of arsenic cleanup.  

Source: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN), December 29, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chuck Alvord’s job used to be so simple. Smash. Remove. Repeat. But today, Alvord and others in the demolition business don’t destroy buildings as much as recycle them — and saving about 70 percent of what they find. “When I started, we’d just […]

Source: www.pctonline.com, December 28, 2012 By: John Culotta Until about five years ago, bed bugs were largely the stuff of bedtime sayings. “Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite.” Now, these tiny pests have emerged as a big nuisance throughout the country, with infestations affecting neighborhoods from New York City to Seattle. With the […]