Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com, January 9, 2012 By: Andrew George While Lower Mount Bethel Township supervisors aren’t necessarily pleased about sludge coming to township farms, there’s really not a lot they can do about it. Several township farmers approached the Lower Mount Bethel Township Board of Supervisors last week to inform members of their plans to begin […]

Source: http://www.gfmag.com, January 2012 By: Anita Hawser Environmental risk insurers are offering more sophisticated solutions and a broader range of coverage amounts. A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Moerdijk, Netherlands, in January 2011. The plant belonged to Dutch chemicals company Chemie-Pack, which used it to store hazardous chemicals. Although no one was […]

Source: The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA), January 2, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Harrisburg businessman says he didn’t quite know what he was bidding on when he offered to buy a plot of marshland where 5,000 tons of toxic waste was dumped in the 1990s. James Halkias didn’t know an additional 676 drums of metallic […]

Read here about how opponents of hydraulic fracturing in New York are looking to enact local laws to ban the practice.

Source: Beaver County Times (PA), December 26, 2011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com About 900 claims have been filed by motorists who suffered damage to their vehicles after a truck spilled thousands of gallons of liquid asphalt on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in November, and those claims will likely total more than the trucking company’s insurance policy will […]

Read here about some Tennessee property owners who are waiting on a judge’s decision 3 years after a sludge spill.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com, December 22, 2011 By: Tiffany Kary Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) can exclude some evidence from a $15.5 billion pollution lawsuit brought by creditors of Tronox Inc., the chemical maker that says it was driven into bankruptcy after it was saddled with environmental liabilities. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan today agreed to […]

Source: “Legal Insights,” A Publication of Havkins Rosenfeld Ritzert & Varriale, LLP, Spring 2011-Volume 5, Issue 1 By: Tara C. Fappiano Deep within the earth is a layer of sedimentary rock that is the gas-rich Marcellus Shale, a substantial portion of which lies in the Southern Tier, Twin Tiers and Catskills region of New York State. Hydro-fracking, […]

Source: Daily Camera (Boulder, CO), December 20, 2011 Posted on: http://enr.construction.com A new study led by a University of Colorado engineering professor shows that green construction poses more dangers than traditional projects — partly because workers are more likely to be cut on recycled construction materials or fall while installing solar panels. Matthew R. Hallowell, […]

Source: Desert Dispatch (Barstow, CA), December 18, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com It’s been more than a year since officials discovered perchlorate in Barstow’s drinking water, but a new wave of tests by water experts conducted last week should determine the extent of the plume. Geologists and water experts began drilling and sampling groundwater Dec. 12. […]

Source: New York Times Online, December 18, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Amwell Township is a 44-square-mile plot of steep ravines and grassy pasturelands planted with alfalfa, trefoil and timothy in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania. Its home to some 4,000 people, most of whom live in villages named Amity, Lone Pine and Prosperity. From some […]

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com, December 17, 2011 By: Ashley Portero While hydraulic fracturing has been employed in Western states for years by oil and gas companies seeking to extract valuable natural gas from deep within the ground, the controversial process has remained largely unregulated while simultaneously coming under scrutiny due to concerns about its potentially harmful effects […]