Source: Valley Independent (Monessen, PA), March 10, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Tervita landfill in Rostraver Township has been ordered to pay a six-figure fine for repeatedly failing to control foul odors, according the state Department of Environmental Protection. A consent order and agreement — signed by both DEP and Tervita officials Wednesday — orders […]

Read here about a gas drilling company in Ohio that was ordered to stop operations after minor earthquakes were felt.

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 7, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com By: Peg Brickley Questions about the safety of its California lead-recycling operation continue to haunt Exide Technologies Inc. (XIDEQ), a battery maker operating under bankruptcy protection. This week, the company agreed to allow a $40 million lawsuit filed by the South Coast Air Quality […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 9, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com By: Alexandra Berzon The state will require stricter monitoring of storage tanks and water systems under a bill Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is expected to sign in response to a chemical spill that tainted the water supply for 300,000 people here. The legislation passed […]

Source: http://www.khou.com, March 11, 2014 By: Drew Karedes The health department is investigating what could’ve caused a chlorine leak that sent nine children to local hospitals. It happened after 6 p.m. at Fins swim school on Spring Cypress near Stuebner Airline. The victims, ages 2 to 16, began complaining of nausea, tearing and respiratory distress. […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 4, 2014 By: Brian Margolies, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Lennar Mare Island v. Steadfast Ins. Co., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26405 (E.D. Cal. Feb. 28, 2014), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California had occasion to consider the relationship between a […]

Source: http://www.alaskadispatch.com, March 6, 2014 By: Dermot Cole The state filed a lawsuit Thursday against the current owner and the former owner of the North Pole refinery, seeking damages from Flint Hills and Williams for past and future cleanup costs stemming from sulfolane pollution that extends 3 miles from the refinery. It’s the latest step in […]

Source: http://www.adn.com, March 5, 2014 By: Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer 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 […]

Source: Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), March 6, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com The contractor working at the site of Tuesday’s townhouse explosion in Ewing that killed one woman was recently fined more than $100,000 by safety regulators for problems at two other sites, records show. Blue Bell, Pa.-based Henkels & McCoy was cited last year by the […]

Source: New Haven Register (CT), March 4, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Singapore shipping company agreed to pay a $1.2 million penalty after it admitted to illegally dumping oily wastewater in international waters, the U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut said in a press release. The company, Odfjell Asia II Pte Ltd, pleaded guilty […]

Read here about a school district in Indiana that will pay a penalty for polluting a waterway.

Source: Star Tribune (MN), March 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com There are many reasons why the Minneapolis city impound lot west of downtown might be considered notorious, but as of last week, being a state Superfund site is no longer one of them. After nearly 30 years of city cleanup efforts and other improvements at […]