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 […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), February 18, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Freedom Industries is asking the court to speed up the hearing process and give the green light to hire experts and environmental consultants to look into details of the Jan. 9 chemical spill. Freedom wants experts and consultants to assist in remediation of the […]

Source: http://www.npr.org, December 16, 2013 Tiny plastic beads used in some cosmetics and toothpaste are making their way into the bellies of fish in the Great Lakes, and it’s raising concern among environmentalists. Dr. Sherri Mason, a chemistry professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia, has been researching the issue, and she […]

Source: http://www.cnn.com, January 8, 2013 By: Elizabeth Landau If you use exfoliating soaps, you might not know those little beads may be made of plastic — or think about what happens to them when they go down the drain. But it’s on the minds of marine science researchers, as well as a major company. Unilever, […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 6, 2014 By: Howard E. Nelson and Cristina Arana Lumpkin, Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP When you are buying raw land to build homes, you need to know what you are buying. A 100-acre tract of farmland may look pristine to the untrained eye, but an environmental professional may discover […]