Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A dozen Paulsboro residents have joined in a lawsuit against a West Deptford plastics company over a contaminated water supply. The lawsuit alleges that Solvay Specialty Polymers has failed to protect the borough from perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) stemming from its operations on Leonard Lane. Filed […]

Source: AFP World News, February 3, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The amount of harmful pollutants released in the process of recovering oil from tar sands in western Canada is likely far higher than corporate interests say, university researchers said Monday. Actual levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emissions into the air may be two to […]

Read here about a proposed gas-drilling wastewater well in Ohio that has lead to an appeal.

Source: Bangor Daily News (ME), February 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Cleanups completed at two superfund sites in Maine have reduced the chances of the public being exposed to contaminants in groundwater, according to reports issued recently by the Environmental Protection Agency. Superfund is the name of the federal environmental program established to address abandoned […]

Read here about a Nebraska plant owner that has been ordered to pay over $2 million for violations of the Clean Water Act and the Nebraska Environmental Protection Act.

Source: Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT), February 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Utah’s Water Quality Board has approved the $5.35 million Willard Bay Settlement Agreement between the Division of Water Quality, Division of Parks and Recreation and Chevron Pipe Line Co. That approval finalizes an agreement requiring Chevron to pay a $350,000 civil penalty to DWQ, $550,000 […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), February 5, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Attorneys have moved beyond Freedom Industries in a new batch of lawsuits tied to last month’s Elk River chemical spill. In fact, the company’s name doesn’t appear at all in some of the recent lawsuits filed in Kanawha County Circuit Court. Four lawsuits filed […]

Source: Belfast Telegraph (Northern Ireland), January 30, 2014 Posted on: http://jlttnews3.advisen.com A CONTRACTOR who admitted breaching Health and Safety legislation while removing asbestos panels from a block of flats has been fined a total of 8,000 pounds. Piperhill Construction Ltd had been carrying out refurbishment work on the stairwells of Kilbroney House in the Cregagh […]

Source: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA), January 30, 2014 Posted on: http://jlttnews3.advisen.com Los Angeles is joining with nine major cities in an ambitious effort to cut greenhouse gases by improving efficiencies that reduce pollution in buildings, it was announced Wednesday. Mayor Eric Garcetti, in a conference call with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Institute […]

Source: http://enr.construction.com, January 28, 2014 By: Richard Korman A state court in Texas restored some order to U.S. contractors’ general liability insurance, limiting insurers’ efforts to narrow what is considered an “occurrence” covered under a policy. Insurers have been trying to eliminate coverage for defects in the contractor’s own work. The issue has come up […]

Source: http://www.insurancejournal.com, January 30, 2014 By: John Raby The company behind a chemical spill that contaminated the water supply of 300,000 people now estimates some 10,000 gallons of chemicals leaked, up from an earlier figure of 7,500 gallons, state regulators said Monday. West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection released the new figure from Freedom Industries […]

Source: http://ca.news.yahoo.com, January 28, 2014 High levels of arsenic trioxide have been found in 31 cleanup workers at Giant Mine in Yellowknife but it’s not clear how employees were exposed to the highly toxic substance. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development is overseeing the massive cleanup at the former gold mine. There are 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust stored […]