Read here about waste dumping charges that have been brought against a slaughterhouse in Dallas.

Read here about a $400 million cleanup plan that has been proposed for a canal in New York City.  

Read here about a New Orleans company whose plant was destroyed in a blaze and subsequently has sued a fire suppression company.

Read here about a tanker that leaked acid in North Carolina.

Read here about how Marcellus natural gas production increased in 2012.

Source: Vindicator, Youngstown, OH, December 26, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The amount of air pollution associated with hydraulic fracturing continues to be a point of contention among environmentalists, industry leaders and scientists. Scientists have been divided about the potential air-quality benefits of natural gas compared with coal when fugitive emissions — gas that escapes from […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 24, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com When the VA Pittsburgh Health Care System first revealed on Nov. 16 that it had an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that sickened four patients at its Oakland veterans hospital, it blamed a water treatment system that had been in use there since 1993. In the last […]

Read here about new shale gas regulations that are likely to pass by the end of February in New York.  

Source: Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ, December 24, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com For more than a month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that Hurricane Sandy didn’t cause significant problems at any of the 247 Superfund toxic waste sites it’s monitoring in New York and New Jersey. But in many cases, no actual tests of soil […]

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 23, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Early next year, a sophisticated air quality monitor is expected to go into operation near O.D. Wyatt High School in Fort Worth, the 11th such device deployed to measure pollutants in the Barnett Shale. The monitors, four of which were installed this year in Arlington, […]

Source: http://www.nctimes.com, December 19, 2012 By: Michael J. Williams Residents of a Wildomar neighborhood attending a meeting with county and state officials this week vehemently called on them to investigate whether the soil on their properties is contaminated. “People are sick and dying. We have lost everything,” said Xonia Villanueva, directing her remarks at representatives […]

Source: Courthouse News Service, December 20, 2012 By: Joseph Celentino Owners and insurers connected to an Indiana landfill abandoned in the early 1980s may have to shell out additional funds for cleanup efforts, the 7th Circuit ruled. From 1977 to 1982, Environmental Chemical and Conservation Co., or Enviro-Chem, operated waste-disposal and recycling sites near Zionsville, […]