Source: http://www.newbernsj.com, September 27, 2011 By: Drew C. Wilson A small patch of petroleum-contaminated soil beneath Havelock City Hall will have to be cleaned up for construction of a new building. A set of six soil borings drilled July 21 where an old underground fuel storage tank was once located detected the spots that had […]

Source: http://www.post-journal.com, October 2, 2011 By: Jason Rodriguez As far back as 1990, Widrig Avenue resident Dennis McCullough has been especially wary of poor weather. He said that his house is situated at a crossroads of city plumbing. McCullough said a 15-inch waste water line, coming down Hallock Street, turns onto his road, and flows […]

Source: http://www.fredericknewspost.com, September 30, 2011 By: Bethany Rodgers Snags in the construction of a new nursing home had the Frederick County Commissioners shaking their heads Thursday as costs and delays continue to pile up. At their meeting, the county board authorized five work changes that could add up to $430,000 to as much as the […]

Read here about a Seattle recycling requirement that led to an all-time high percentage of recycling but has also led to odor complaints.

Read here about some Pennsylvania homeowners and a gas pipeline company that have sued each other over a pipeline to be built that would connect to Marcellus Shale wells.

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, September 22, 2011 By: Lindsey Kelleher Township resident Michael Gordon, partner in the Springfield law firm Gordon & Gordon, served as lead counsel representing the State of New Jersey in a case that is holding two chemical companies financially responsible for pollution in the Passaic River. The state is also represented by the […]

Source: http://savannahnow.com, September 22, 2011 By: Mary Landers King America Finishing has agreed to fund $1 million worth of environmental projects on the Ogeechee River as part of a consent order prompted by a massive fish kill in May. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division executed the order Wednesday after investigations into the fish kill revealed […]

Source: New York Times Online, September 23, 2011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com As bedbugs have made a comeback, aided by resistance to pesticides and spread by worldwide travel, scientists have found that panic over the blood-sucking pests may be more dangerous than their bite. Some people are misusing poisonous chemicals in a desperate bid to eradicate […]

Source: Hartford Courant (CT), September 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Contamination on 200 acres in the town’s Meadowood section that was once used to grow tobacco is being cleaned up this week in preparation for a proposed 296-home housing development. Residents living near the property, bounded by Hoskins Road on the south, County Road on […]

Source: Sun (Yuma, AZ), September 20, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com BTZ, a Yuma excavation and demolition contractor, has agreed to pay a $110,000 penalty for asbestos and air quality violations from its demolition activities and at its asphalt plant, according to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and Arizona Attorney General’s Office. “Arizona companies […]

Source: Western Farm Press, September 20, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Kansas feedlot operator is trying to make hay by falsely claiming that EPA defined hay as a water pollutant. The owner of the Callicrate Feeding Company has been spinning a “hay-as-pollutant” myth through the blogosphere for a couple of weeks now. While the company […]

Source: The Daily Star (Oneonta, NY), September 20, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A lawsuit filed against the town of Middlefield last week that seeks to overturn its ban on gas drilling could set legal precedent in the state, several who spoke on the subject Friday and Monday said. Cooperstown Holstein Corporation vs. Town of Middlefield was filed […]