Source: http://www.pollutiononline.com, March 10, 2016 Amid heightened scrutiny and intensified regulations, pollution incidents pose a serious risk for vital agricultural businesses Chubb today released an in-depth report detailing new and unrecognized environmental risks facing the agriculture industry. The report discusses how these businesses can help reduce pollution risks related to their operations and address potential […]

Source: http://theadvocate.com, March 13, 2016 By: Amy Wold In a small, cramped office at Gerald Moore’s auto repair shop and U-Haul rental service on Evangeline Street, two of the pictures hanging over the barred windows are a physical representation of his dream. The pictures are artist renderings of the gas station, and then convenience store, […]

Source: http://www.postandcourier.com, February 23, 2016 By: Warren L. Wise An environmental cleanup plan sheds more light on the proposed redevelopment of the former Morris Sokol Furniture store and adjoining properties in downtown Charleston. The prime piece of real estate along Upper King Street could feature “office, retail, hotel, multifamily residential and parking structures,” according to […]

Source: http://www.democracynow.org, March 11, 2016 In Pennsylvania, a court has ordered fracking company Cabot Oil & Gas to pay more than $4 million to families whose well water was contaminated by fracking. The landmark legal ruling comes after an eight-year battle between residents and Cabot. Filmmaker Josh Fox, who featured some of the families in […]

Source: http://www.texaslawyer.com, March 9, 2016 By: Angela Neville The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently reversed an earlier ruling of a Houston federal court that threw out a case against Vicinay Cadenas, the manufacturer of underwater tether chains, over an alleged defective marine chain brought by Petrobras America Inc. and certain underwriters […]

Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com, March 8, 2016 By: Sean P. Murphy Wynn Resorts announced Tuesday that it will halt environmental cleanup work at the site of its planned casino because of continued objections to a state environmental permit by officials in nearby Somerville. Wynn Resorts has spent months removing arsenic, lead, and other pollutants from a portion […]

Source: http://thinkprogress.org, March 10, 2016 By: Alejandro Davila Fragoso Before Cabot Oil and Gas Corporation fracked inside the property of Frederick and Debra Roth, the couple’s groundwater had always been clean. Their water had no visible gases, malodors or off-tastes, according to court documents, and the Roths knew that. Part of the deal was that […]

Source: http://ecowatch.com, February 4, 2016 By: Laurel Peltier The headline flew around the globe like wild fire. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no widespread impact on drinking water. But if you’ve had your ear to the ground in fracking communities, something didn’t […]

Source: http://freepressstandard.com, March 2, 2016 By: Carol McIntire A three-year study by the University of Cincinnati in Carroll and surrounding counties determined hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has no effect on groundwater in the Utica shale region, is not being released to the public. Dr. Amy Townsend-Small, the lead researcher for the University of Cincinnati Department […]

Source: http://www.timescolonist.com, February 24, 2016 A Quebec court has authorized a class-action suit related to an outbreak of legionnaire’s disease that is believed to have contributed to 14 deaths. The lead plaintiff is Solange Allen, whose husband, Claude Desjardins, died in August 2012 at the age of 64. The class-action filed in Quebec Superior Court […]

Source: http://radio.wpsu.org, February 29, 2016 By: Eleanor Klibanoff When David Rosner was a kid, he’d go into his grandfather’s garage and mix up cans of paint. “I can still remember just sticking a stick in to mix it up and hitting halfway down a solid mass of hard stuff,” said Rosner. “That was lead.” Today, […]

Source: http://www.jdsupra.com, March 7, 2016 By: Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP The tragic water crisis in Flint, Michigan raises grave concerns as to the lurking hazards posed by our nation’s aging infrastructure. There are an estimated six million lead service lines in operation in the United States.  In addition, countless plumbing systems in homes […]