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 […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, February 16, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Read your insurance policy. That’s the bottom line advice for businesses of all kinds, especially when it comes to pollution exclusions in property damage and liability insurance policies. A used car company and its principal learned this the hard way. Mississauga Motor Mart, and its […]

Source: The New York Times, February 14, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com A 120-car Norfolk Southern train carrying heavy Canadian crude oil derailed and spilled in western Pennsylvania on Thursday, adding to a string of recent accidents that have prompted calls for stronger safety standards. There were no reports of injury or fire after 21 tank […]

Source: Buffalo News, February 15, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Fifteen new lawsuits were filed Friday on behalf of current and past Niagara Falls residents who say their health was damaged by toxic waste emanating from Love Canal. Counting three previous lawsuits that included six families, Friday’s filings bring the number of plaintiffs in the new […]