Read here about a family in Colorado who filed a lawsuit alleging oil and gas drilling activities contaminated their drinking water.

Source: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), March 25, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Philadelphia law firm representing hundreds of plaintiffs in a 10-year-old gasoline spill lawsuit resolved all of their outstanding cases, according to the law firm’s public relations firm. The Locks Law Firm represented more than 200 plaintiffs in the case in which Hazleton-area residents […]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer , March 23, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The level of salty compounds in the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh spiked above acceptable limits in late 2008 — not a health risk, according to federal and state regulators, but drinking water drawn from the river tasted like mud. Environmentalists blamed the contamination on […]

Source: Daily Camera (Boulder, CO), March 23, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The University of Colorado filed a lawsuit against a subcontractor that school officials blame for a 2008 petroleum leak in Boulder Creek that cost the school $58,350 to clean up. In 2008, the university hired Englewood-based Encore Electric as a general contractor to replace […]

Read here about a company sued by three environmental groups over selenim pollution from a West Virginia mine.

Source: Salem News (MA), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owners of an unlicensed Lynnfield asbestos removal business and an employee have been indicted on charges of violating state environmental and wage laws, including while working on projects in Beverly and Marblehead. The business, which calls itself AEI Environmental LLC, is based out of […]

Source: Lawyers USA, March 14, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Virginia legislature has passed a pair of measures aimed at preventing more homeowners from the dangers of tainted Chinese drywall. Senate Bill 1294 bars the sale of Chinese drywall, although not the sale of a home with Chinese drywall installed. It awaits the governor’s signature, […]

Source: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A plaintiff in a 10-year-old lawsuit in which hundreds of Hazleton residents claimed they were sickened or had their property damaged in a gasoline spill settled his case Monday. Attorneys for ExxonMobil and plaintiff Robert J. Stevens were in Luzerne County Court on Monday […]

Read here about a Pennsylvania company that is being held liable for polluting the Conemaugh River.

Source: Daily Star, The (Oneonta, NY), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Like Middlefield, Springfield and Otsego, the town of Cherry Valley is moving to ban drilling and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within its borders. The town’s zoning commission will hold a public hearing Monday on a draft land-use law that prohibits new drilling […]

Source: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com With more contaminants being found in city wells, the Madison Water Board is considering a tougher approach to pollutants, including heightened monitoring, filters and other treatments. Contamination of Madison’s public drinking water wells by industrial pollutants is a growing problem. For example, pollutants […]

Source: Belleville News-Democrat, IL, March 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Seven years after water districts filed suit against the makers of a farm herbicide, the class-action lawsuit is still mired in legal machinations in Madison County. The Holiday Shores Sanitary District was one of 13 public water districts to file suit against Syngenta, maker of […]