Source: http://www.ohio.com, December 9, 2012 By: Bob Downing KENSINGTON: The hill tops in southwest Columbiana County off state Route 644 are under attack. Construction equipment is turning a former farm two miles east of Kensington into a natural gas-processing facility that is to open by next May. It is mostly a ground-clearing operation in Hanover […]

Source: Reading Eagle (PA), November 29, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Tilden Township mobile home park owner was charged Wednesday with illegally discharging untreated sewage into a Schuylkill River tributary and falsifying permit applications, the state Attorney General’s office reported. Frank Perano, 55, of the 2800 block of Main Street, Morgantown, faces three counts of […]

Read here about a copper mine site in Vermont where clean-up is nearing completion after ten years.

Source: Business Wire, November 28, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Fitch Ratings estimates industry asbestos reserves to be deficient by $2 billion to $8 billion at year-end 2011. Asbestos reserves make up approximately 4% of total property/casualty industry reserves with approximately 50% of reserves concentrated in five insurers. In a new report, Fitch examines a range […]

Source: Modesto Bee (CA), November 28, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Stanislaus County and Modesto are in a legal dispute regarding who is responsible for environmental work and the cleanup of pollutants that are released from the former Geer Road landfill. In April 2011, state authorities ordered the county to take more aggressive cleanup action for […]

Source: Daily Mail, London England, November 27, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com LIVING near a busy road could treble the risk of childhood autism, scientists warned yesterday. Exposure to air pollution in the womb or during the first year of life was linked to a twofold increase in a child’s chances of having the disorder. But […]

Read here about an oil recycling facility in Wisconsin that has been fined for violating hazardous waste laws.  

Source: http://www.lexology.com, November 2, 2012 By: Mary Beth Forshaw and Bryce L. Friedman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP A Missouri district court ruled that a pollution exclusion excused an insurer from any duty to defend claims arising out of exposure to harmful lead products. Doe Run Resources Corp. v. Lexington Ins. Co., 2012 WL 4480732 […]

Source: The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, VA, November 23, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Winter dredging, a century-old method for harvesting blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay, has long been vilified for harming the ecosystem and undercutting crab populations. When it was banned four years ago, conservationists cheered — and crab abundance boomed. Now, with stocks continuing to […]

Source: The Record, Hackensack, NJ, November 25, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Superstorm Sandy inundated hundreds of homes in Moonachie and Little Ferry with dirty floodwater and caused one of the largest sewage spills in North Jersey history. While the environmental damage brought about by the superstorm is significant, it could have been much worse: Officials […]

Source: Tribune-Review, November 25, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Hempfield taxpayers shelled out more than $32,000 to dredge a creek running through a township park that damaged nearby wetlands, according to a review of bills and work orders obtained under the state’s Right-to-Know Act. Taxpayers can expect the costs to keep climbing because remediation work on […]

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press, November 23, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A man who chose the cheap way to tear down an old textile mill in East Chattanooga and exposed a neighborhood to asbestos will be allowed to appeal his four-year sentence on the taxpayers’ dime — at least for now. Don Fillers, while awaiting […]