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 […]

Read here about an MTBE Pollution Liability lawsuit against major oil companies that is expected to get underway soon.  

Source: http://articles.philly.com, January 3, 2013 By: Thomas W. Merrill and David M. Schizer In the new movie Promised Land, Matt Damon plays an energy worker in rural Pennsylvania who has a crisis of conscience about the environmental risks of the drilling method known as fracking. But the reality is much more promising than Promised Land […]

Source: BBC International Reports (Asia), January 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Contamination in a north Chinese river has led to the water supply in Handan, a city with more than 1 million people in Hebei Province, being cut off since Saturday afternoon. A statement by the city government said the cut-off was caused by an […]