Source: Dow Jones Newswires, July 17, 2007 By: Matthew Dalton New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sued Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) on Tuesday to force a cleanup of oil and hazardous waste dumped into a creek that divides the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District […]

Source: http://www.midwestadvocates.org, July 19, 2006 Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager announced today that her office has both filed and settled an environmental lawsuit in Dodge County Circuit Court against Nehls Brothers Farms, Ltd. Under the settlement, Nehls Brothers agrees to the following: Nehls Brothers will pay over $42,000 to reimburse three near-by well owners for their […]

Source: http://greenanswers.com, June 8, 2011 By: Julie M. Rodriguez Across the US, abandoned mines languish awaiting cleanup efforts – up to 500,000 of them. An estimated 40% of Western rivers are tainted with the toxic discharge of these sites. There are at least 7,300 abandoned mines across the state of Colorado alone. 450 of these […]

Source: Greeley Tribune (Colorado), June 5, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Last month, researchers at Duke University unleashed a mini bombshell on the oil and gas industry with a study demonstrating a strong link between oil and gas drilling and groundwater contamination. But no sooner did their study come out that many refuted its findings, stating […]

Source: Record (Hackensack, NJ), June 6, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Three years after EnCap’s collapse, renewed efforts to seal four contaminated Meadowlands landfills are more than a year behind schedule and running out of cash. Closing the old dumps, which have despoiled waterways and defied would-be developers for decades, could eventually cost more than $172 million and […]

Source: http://www.post-gazette.com, June 6, 2011 By: Don Hopey GenOn Northeast Management Co. has agreed to pay $5 million to settle charges that wastewater discharges from its Conemaugh coal-fired power plant into the Conemaugh River violated the federal Clean Water Act on 8,684 days since 2005. The 13-page proposed settlement, which also requires the power plant […]

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Source: http://www.strausnews.com, May 27, 2011 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday released a plan to remove contaminated soil from the site of former lagoons at the Nepera Chemical Company Superfund site in Hamptonburgh. The 29.3-acre site is a former industrial waste disposal facility. Between 1953 and 1967, lagoons at the site received approximately 50,000 […]

Source: http://articles.boston.com, May 30, 2011 A Maine quarry owner and contractor has signed an agreement with the city of Augusta acknowledging a subcontractor failed to notify neighbors of two quarry blasts that sent dust into local neighborhoods. Contractor Steve McGee agreed to pay $3,500 through subcontractor Maine Drilling and Blasting, which wrote the check. McGee […]

Source: http://www.denverpost.com, May 30, 2011 By: Bruce Finley As mountain snow starts to melt, trickling toxic acid laced with dissolved metals — arsenic, cadmium, copper, zinc — is fouling Colorado watersheds. Nobody dares try to stop it. Among the casualties: Peru Creek east of the Keystone ski area has been pronounced “biologically dead.” State environmental […]

Source: http://www.scpr.org, May 24, 2011 By: Molly Peterson Homeowners in Carson’s Carousel neighborhood have faced setbacks in their efforts to hold developers and the Shell Oil company responsible for toxic soil under their houses. Regional water regulators have told Shell to clean up what was for 40 years a tank farm with open reservoirs of […]