Source: The Day (New London, CT), February 3, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An effort has begun on three separate fronts to give the state more control over waste products from hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” that gas exploration companies may want to transport, dispose of or process in Connecticut. The state Department of Energy […]

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, February 4, 2014 By: Michael P. Voelker While brokers and carriers are increasing their policy counts, they face an uphill battle to grow premium volume. Among the most interesting developments in environmental liability coverage is that the recovering economy is turning businesses from window-shoppers into buyers. According to Marsh’s analysis of the environmental […]

Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com, February 4, 2014 By: Bruce Henderson Duke Energy said Monday that 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash and up to 27 million gallons of water were released from a pond at its retired power plant in Eden into the Dan River, and were still flowing. Duke said a 48-inch stormwater pipe beneath […]

Source: EHS Today, February 1, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com In the coming months, OSHA will hold public hearings on one of its most far-reaching new regulations in recent years. OSHA’s proposed silica rule would affect more than 2 million workers in construction, oil and gas exploration, manufacturing and any work that involves silica-containing materials such […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, January 31, 2014 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co. v. Kay & Kay Contr. 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 23587 (6th Cir. Nov. 19, 2013) This action arose out of a commercial general liability (“CGL”) policy issued by Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. (“Liberty Mutual”) to MW Builders, Inc. (“MW […]

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 […]