Source: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, November 2, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Barges have a safety record that environmentalists and gas drillers can both point to as supporting their opposing views about a Coast Guard proposal to allow fracking waste to be shipped along the nation’s rivers to disposal sites. They average seven large spills a year […]

Source: USAToday.com, November 3, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Surging oil and gas production is nudging the nation closer to energy independence. But new research suggests the boom could peter out long before the United States reaches this decades-old goal. Many wells behind the energy gush are quickly losing productivity, and some areas could hit peak […]

Source: The State (SC), November 2, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com State Attorney General Alan Wilson has revived criticism in South Carolina against new controls on greenhouse gas pollution, but his remarks this week drew a sharp response from one of the nation’s leading environmental groups. John Walke, who tracks air issues for the Natural Resources […]

Source: San Antonio Express-News (TX), November 2, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Tesoro Logistics LP said Friday it had restarted a 35-mile section of its North Dakota pipeline that was shut on Sept. 29 after it leaked and spilled crude oil in a farmer’s wheat field. The spill was North Dakota’s largest since at least 2002, […]

Source: AFP World News, November 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A method of storing harmful greenhouse gases by injecting them below ground has likely triggered a series of earthquakes in Texas, some larger than magnitude 3, a US study said Monday. The findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences mark the first […]

Source: Winston-Salem Journal (NC), November 3, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Look no further than the Carolina coast to see what kind of damage a coal-fired power plant can do to underground sources of drinking water. Massive groundwater contamination is rendering unusable the private wells of about 400 people in a Wilmington-area community known as Flemington. […]

Source: The Frederick News-Post (MD), November 5, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A developer that wants to build more than 700 homes near a Fort Detrick Superfund site will wait for results from water samplings taken from the property before deciding how to proceed with a $37 million tort claim it filed against the post in […]

Read here about oil and gas regulators in Colorado who are considering stricter spill rules.  

Read here about a Texas company that has been sued by one of its insurers.

Source: Dow Jones News Service, November 7, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com (FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 11/7/13) Energy companies in Colorado are girding for a statewide battle over fracking next year after voters in three communities passed bans on hydraulic fracturing and a fourth town voted to continue to allow the practice by just a […]

Source: The Wisconsin State Journal, November 5, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The city and state want Madison-Kipp to remove tainted soil from a large drainage ditch between the company and Capital City Bike Trail. The city-owned “rain garden,” created in 2006 and planted with prairie plants to filter runoff, showed high levels of PCBs in […]

Source: Chicago Tribune, November 5, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is suing one of the companies piling up huge mounds of refinery waste on Chicago’s Southeast Side, adding new legal pressure to stop black clouds of dust from blowing into surrounding neighborhoods. In a complaint filed Monday in Cook County Circuit […]