Source: http://www.trentonian.com, May 30, 2014 By: Sherrina Navani The former grounds of the University Medical Center of Princeton needs a very good cleaning. The hospital and the land it sits on are being prepped to become the new grounds for a low-to-middle income housing complex called Avalon Bay. Developers for the 280 units have battled […]

Source: http://www.nytimes.com, June 1, 2014 By: Coral Davenport The Obama administration on Monday will announce one of the strongest actions ever taken by the United States government to fight climate change, a proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulation to cut carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, according to […]

Source: http://www.nbcnewyork.com, May 30, 2014 By: Greg Cergol Authorities on Thursday said tests showed pesticides, toxic metals and petroleum products in the soil of a Long Island park where asbestos had already been detected, and warned anyone in contact with the material “may have been put in jeopardy.” The Suffolk County district attorney has been probing […]

Source: http://www.centraljersey.com, May 29, 2014 By: Philip Sean Curran Test results were expected back by today, May 30, to determine the level and the extent of soil contamination at the old Princeton hospital site on Witherspoon Street after a discharge of suspected petroleum was found last week. The town said this week the discharge was […]

Source: Lexington Herald-Leader (KY), May 29, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Two environmental groups filed suit Wednesday in federal court against Louisville Gas & Electric for allegedly inappropriately dumping coal ash in the Ohio River on an almost daily basis. In its lawsuit, The Sierra Club and Earthjustice claim LG&E violated the Clean Water Act and […]

Source: The Charlotte Observer (NC), May 28, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Tyson Farms has agreed to pay a $305,000 federal fine stemming from a spill that dumped about 210,000 gallons of rendered chicken byproducts into a river north of Statesville, according to settlement papers filed Tuesday in federal court. The N.C. Department of Environment and […]

Source: The Boston Globe, May 28, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Four Massachusetts laboratory companies have collectively agreed to pay $1.75 million in penalties to settle allegations that they failed to control their emissions of hazardous air pollutants, the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley said. Under the four consent judgments, entered Tuesday along with four […]

Source: http://www.philly.com, May 29, 2014 By: Jan Hefler A New Jersey Superior Court judge has ruled the multiple owners of a thermometer factory that was turned into the Kiddie Kollege day care center without a clean-up must repay the state a total of $6.13 million for removing the contamination and demolishing the building in Franklin […]

Source: The Huron Daily Tribune (MI), May 27, 2014 Posted on: http://constfpn.advisen.com The company the Michigan Department of Transportation contracted to perform last year’s M-53 reconstruction project in Bad Axe has less than two weeks to respond to a lawsuit that was filed by more than 20 residents who had sewage flood their basements in […]

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