Source: Wichita Eagle, September 13, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Three-year-old Kalen Perrault has a wracking cough so severe that his mother, Amy Perrault, has to take him to Derby many nights to sleep in the clean air of his grandparents’ house. His father, Iraq veteran Jason Perrault, and mother blame mold in their 2-year-old $184,000 home […]

Source: Hartford Courant, September 13, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Federal environmental regulators have accepted the Navy’s proposal to clean up a large, contaminated site at the submarine base in Groton. The 102-acre section, laced with PCBs, heavy metals, and other remnants of ship-maintenance operations, has been accumulating toxins since before World War II. The area […]

Source: Tampa Tribune, September 16, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Lakeland family who found a landfill in their backyard while trying to build a pool is suing the home’s builder and developer. Brian Dyer found the junk last year, and radar showed it runs from his backyard to underneath his home. The property once was […]

Source: Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA), September 14, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Four Winds Campground faces a $10,500 fine for problems associated with its sewage treatment plant. That’s according to a proposed consent order between Caroline County campground owner Four Winds Club Inc. and the State Water Control Board. A consent order is a negotiated settlement […]

Read here about 12 additional contaminated sites that have been added to the EPA Superfund list.

Read here about a Maryland poultry pollution case where the judge has been asked to visit the farm involved in the suit.

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 17, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Federal emergency response contractors have inventoried 8,868 gallons of hazardous chemicals inside an abandoned metal plating factory in the village, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said Monday. The chemicals were found stored in a total of 315 barrels, drums, vats and large jugs packed […]

Source: The Charleston Gazette, September 13, 2012 By: Ken Ward, Jr. A deal that might have helped bankrupt Patriot Coal manage its huge liability for cleaning up selenium pollution from mountaintop removal mining operations has fallen through, federal court records have revealed. Lawyers for Patriot and the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition told U.S. District Judge […]

Source: The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA, SEptember 13, 2012 By: John Gillie The Port of Tacoma Commission recently got bad news that could cost unbudgeted millions on finding hidden sources of contamination and a second cleanup of the Hylebos Waterway. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are making a return to a port waterway that six years ago – by […]

Read here about lead-contaminated soil in Missouri that the EPA will pay millions to have removed.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 6, 2012 By, Steven M. Siros, Jenner & Block On September 4, 2012, a federal judge denied Arcadis U.S. Inc.’s (“Arcadis”) request for summary judgment in a CERCLA lawsuit relating to the disposal of contaminated concrete at a demolished Ford Motor Company plant in New Jersey. In the course of demolishing its assembly plant […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 12, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com State officials say Pittsburgh’s ban on natural gas production does not comply with Pennsylvania law, pointing to what they say are several issues within the stringent local ordinance. Those recommendations, outlined in an advisory opinion from the Public Utility Commission dated Monday, were drafted in response […]