Source: http://www.star-telegram.com, February 20, 2014 By: Elizabeth Campbell The city is suing a concrete company over what it says is faulty construction work on some recently built streets and water lines in the Villages of Woodland Springs subdivision in far north Fort Worth. The suit against Site Concrete was filed late Tuesday in Tarrant County […]

Source: http://kunc.org, February 18, 2014 By: Bente Birkeland Controversy over the Colorado Department of Transportation’s first public private partnership along U.S. 36 has risen in recent weeks. On Wednesday a group of community activists plans to file a lawsuit to try and slow it down. The nonprofit Drive SunShine Institute is behind the lawsuit and […]

Source: Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ), February 19, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com National Lead, now known as NL Industries, has until Monday to notify the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it intends to comply with an order to begin the $79 million cleanup of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site. The EPA order, signed Jan. 30, covers […]

Read here about why residents living near a Missouri landfill are raising money for radiation monitors.

Source: The Record (Stockton, CA), February 18, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Toxic emissions reported to the Environmental Protection Agency remain near historic lows in San Joaquin County, according to data released this month. The level of emissions reported in 2012 — the most recent year data are available — was less than 100,000 pounds for […]

Source: http://news.yahoo.com, February 16, 2014 US investigators were taking samples at a New Mexico underground nuclear waste site where airborne radiation was detected, though authorities stressed they had found no contamination. Officials monitoring the possible radiation leak said there was no danger to people or the environment at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation Pilot […]

Source: http://www.habitatmag.com, February 17, 2014 By: Frank Lovece The Sheffield 57, a nearly 600-unit condominium at 322 West 57th Street in Manhattan, has sued its managing agent, an engineering firm and others following the accidental discharge of thousands of gallons of heating oil after what the condo board called “a series of missteps that created […]

Source: http://www.wvgazette.com, February 15, 2014 By: Ken Ward, Jr. Cleanup crews at Freedom Industries are still several weeks away from emptying all of the site’s chemical storage tanks, and still don’t have a clear idea of how much of which materials could have contaminated soil at the site. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection […]

Source: Star-News (Wilmington, NC), February 16, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com For most people, sand mining is an invisible step in the construction process. The mining is typically tucked away in industrial corridors, and the sand is used in construction projects long before the first viewing of a building takes shape, keeping sand mines out of […]

Source: The Baltimore Sun, February 15, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com State officials have reached an agreement with an Anne Arundel County family to clean up Maryland’s largest known tire dump, a decades-old stockpile of hundreds of thousands of tires rotting in ravines in Crownsville and threatening a waterway leading to the South River. The $2.5 […]

Read here about a court fight in Colorado that seeks to overturn a fracking moratorium.

Source: Times Union (Albany, NY), February 15, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Landowners who want to make money from natural gas hydrofracking on their land on Friday sued Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his commissioners of health and environment over the more than five years spent by the state without coming up with a decision to allow […]