Source: http://www.vindy.com, March 4, 2014 By: Emmalee C. Torisk Executors of the estates of Ken Stiver and Gary Wilson have filed a lawsuit against 10 companies and corporations — including the city of Struthers — they say are responsible for the March 1, 2012, waste-treatment plant explosion that resulted in the men’s deaths. The lawsuit, […]

Source: http://www3.gendisasters.com, January 16, 2009 By: Stu Beitler An explosion of chemicals, followed by a fire, at the plant of the Chandler Oilcloth Works, at Yardville, three miles from here, tonight resulted in the death of three men, serious injuries to six others — two of whom are not expected to live — and caused […]

Source: The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, CA), March 1, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A state appellate court on Friday rejected on all counts an appeal by the city of Petaluma and environmental groups that challenged county approval of the Dutra Materials asphalt plant just south of Petaluma. The unanimous ruling, signed by a three-judge panel […]

Source: Alaska Journal of Commerce, February 28, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The State of Alaska will file suit against Flint Hills Resources and Williams Cos., in an effort to sort out liability issues connected with a large underground spill of sulfolane, a chemical used in refining, at the refinery at North Pole, near Fairbanks, Alaska […]

Source: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA), March 1, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Facing complaints from South Los Angeles residents living near oil fields, the Los Angeles City Council moved Friday to place a moratorium on fracking and other drilling methods, a move opposed by oil companies. On a 10-0 vote, the City Council ordered that […]

Source: http://www.circleofblue.org, February 28, 2014 By: Codi Kozacek On January 9, a chemical storage tank on the bank of West Virginia’s Elk River leaked approximately 10,000 gallons of 4-methyl-cyclohexane-methanol (MCHM), a chemical used to process coal, into the river just 1.5 miles upstream of the drinking water intake for 300,000 people in Charleston, the state […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, March 3, 2014 By: James M. O’Neill, The Record A $400 million gas pipeline that cuts through parks and forests in North Jersey — and which sparked lawsuits and protests — was quietly completed on schedule in November and is now in operation. But the construction left a barren swath through 7.6 miles […]

Source: http://www.lakewyliepilot.com, March 1, 2014 By: Bruce Henderson A pair of 80-foot-high earthen dams, one of them built in the Eisenhower era, stand between Charlotte’s water supply and more than 5 billion pounds of coal ash. Duke Energy promises the dikes at its retired Riverbend power plant on Mountain Island Lake are safe. The latest […]

Source: XL Group, Construction Insider, March 2014 Introduction The fungus that causes Valley Fever (coccidioidomycosis) is a found in the soil of dry, low rainfall areas. It is endemic (native and common) in many areas of the southwestern United States (See Figure A. below), Mexico, Central and South America. Valley Fever is a common cause […]

Source: http://www.alaskadispatch.com, February 26, 2014 By: Dermot Cole Flint Hills Resources has told potential buyers of its North Pole Refinery that several conditions would have to be met to reduce the company’s liability, including action by the state to allow a higher level of sulfolane pollution on the 240-acre site. Flint Hills said it would […]

Read here about an Iowa company that will pay millions as a result of the demolition of three buildings that were contaminated with PCBs.

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), February 26, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Charleston attorney seeking to hold Freedom Industries’ shareholders and members legally liable for last month’s chemical leak thinks Tuesday’s testimony could have strengthened his claim. However, there still are several remaining questions that attorneys hope to be resolved in upcoming depositions. As previously […]