Source: http://wlrn.org, March 27, 2014 By: Jeff Brady A lot has changed for the energy industry since the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in 1989 and began spilling oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The outcry over images of oil-soaked wildlife and a once-pristine shoreline dirtied by crude ushered in greater scrutiny of oil operations […]

Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com, September 9, 2013 By: Adam Kovac and Riley Sparks It came from the Bakken shale fields of North Dakota destined for the Irving refinery in Saint John, N.B., but the trainload full of light crude oil that crashed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic on July 6 changed hands many times along its circuitous route. […]

Source: Orange County Register (CA), March 21, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A local group has filed a lawsuit against the city, the City Council and the developer involved in a project in the Back Bay challenging the validity of the environmental impact report that was approved by council members last month. The developer, Bayside Village […]

Read here about a pipeline break in North Dakota that lead to a 34,000 gallon leak of crude.

Source: http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com, March 20, 2014 By: Pamela D. Hans, John G. Nevius, Gene Devine, and Carl Varteresian, Anderson Kill Real estate development, construction, mining and energy development share a set of risks ranging from construction accidents, earth movement and collapse to environmental clean-up. While these risks may be anticipated in some measure, the fast-changing regulatory […]

Source: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX), March 19, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com With a court order in place, Tire Recycling and Processing at the city’s industrial park will continue plant operations of shredding tires, with conditions, but it can’t burn tire scraps into char or biofuel through the pyrolysis process, developments show. State District Judge […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, March 19, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Carson City Council passed a moratorium on all new oil drilling citywide late Tuesday night after dozens of residents spoke against a massive proposed oil project by Occidental Petroleum. In a 5-0 vote, council members imposed an immediate ban on new drilling for 45 […]

Read here about thousands of gallons of oil that has leaded from a pipeline in Ohio.

Read here about a lawsuit claiming a Louisiana coal terminal has been polluting the Mississippi River.

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), March 19, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The chief restructuring officer that Freedom Industries may hire to help wind down business after its leak contaminated the water for 300,000 West Virginians won’t come cheap. According to a motion filed by Freedom, Mark Welch will be paid either an hourly rate of […]

Read here about an industrial plant in New York that has been fined millions for polluting.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 18, 2014 By: Brian Margolies, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP In its recent decision in Acuity v. Chartis Specialty Ins. Co., 2014 Wisc. App. LEXIS 201 (Wisc. App. Mar. 12, 2014), the Court of Appeals for Wisconsin, District Two, had occasion to consider whether damages resulting from a gas line explosion […]