Source: LaGrange Daily News (GA), May 19, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com County officials are concerned about a corporate-owned waste-water treatment facility seeking a five-year extension from the state. County Manager Tod Tentler said the state Environmental Protection Division is about to consider a five-year renewal for a facility on Whitesville Road near Interstate 85 owned […]

Source: The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA), May 17, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Aqua Virginia Inc. is facing a state enforcement action and a fine for violations at its Lake Land’Or wastewater treatment plant in Caroline County. That’s according to a consent order proposed by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. A consent order is a […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, May 19, 2014 By: Samantha Evans Solar panels are quickly becoming a fixture in our everyday lives. Comprised of photovoltaic cells, solar panels harness and convert the sun’s energy into usable electricity otherwise generated by the use of oil, coal and “dirtier” fossil fuels. The environmental benefits associated with solar panels cannot mask […]

Source: http://www.buffalonews.com, May 17, 2014 By: Jerry Zremski Is fracking a health and environmental hazard? The dread is real, but scientists say the truth is more complex – and murky For Lou Hancherick, who lives in the countryside amid picturesque hillside vistas and gas wells 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, the dangers of fracking came […]

Source: http://www.businessinsurance.com, May 15, 2014 A malfunction at an oil pipeline pump station spewed crude as high as 40 feet over an industrial area of Los Angeles on Thursday, covering an open lot and the roof of a strip club beside it, and sickening people at a nearby medical building. The spill was 10,000 gallons […]

Source: http://www.thecitywire.com, May 14, 2014 By: Ryan Saylor An area of highly contaminated soil at the former Whirlpool manufacturing facility has the company’s environmental consultants proposing not just chemical oxidation treatments, as previously approved by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, but removal of soil contaminated by potentially cancer-causing trichloroethylene (TCE). And while the information […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, May 14, 2014 By: Brian Margolies, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in United Fire & Cas. Co. v. Titan Contrs. Serv., 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 8879 (8th Cir. May 13, 2014), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, applying Missouri law, had occasion to consider […]

Read here about the clean up of the Coeur d’Alene River Basin in Idaho on which millions will be spent.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 30, 2014 By: Matthew T. Vocci, Ober Kaler The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion this month that should serve as a reminder to prime contractors to review the coverage granted to them as additional insureds on their subcontractors’ Commercial General Liability (“CGL”) policies. In Carl E. […]

Source: http://sewardcitynews.com, May 12, 2014 By: Rick Smeriglio The most recent Vigor Industries-commissioned assessment of soil and water at Seward Ship’s Drydock shows the presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in shallow sediments near the ship lift across Resurrection Bay from Seward. Investigators also found heavy metals and petroleum by-products other than PAHs. The findings […]

Source: The Chronicle (Centralia, WA), May 10, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The cleanup process for a hazardous waste site just south of Chehalis will begin next month. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will start sampling groundwater June 11 at the Hamilton/Labree Superfund site near North Hamilton Road west of Interstate 5 to pinpoint where the […]

Source: The Baltimore Sun, May 10, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The would-be developers of a residential neighborhood in Frederick are suing the federal government over alleged groundwater contamination from neighboring Fort Detrick. Waverley View Investors LLC, which owns 92 acres near the long-standing center for biological research, says “the U.S. Army’s negligence in its chemical […]