Source: The Dominion Post (WV), November 24, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The State Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued a consent order about violations concerning water pollution and waste disposal by Clarksburg-based Central Supply Co. (CSC), including several at its Monongalia County locations. The Mon County Notices of Violation (NOVs) were issued following inspections […]

Source: Times Union (Albany, NY), November 23, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The world’s largest oil company is paying the state more than $8 million to cover disputed costs of a state-run cleanup of a former oil terminal on the St. Lawrence River, according to state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman. The payment from ExxonMobil settles […]

Source: The Santa Fe New Mexican, November 24, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com It is a script destined for a Hollywood movie: A rural, low-income, mostly Hispanic New Mexico county passes a community rights ordinance, bans oil and gas drilling, and is sued by rich, greedy oil and gas barons. “We’re protecting our water,” say two […]

Source: The New York Times, November 23, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com In energy-friendly Wyoming, oil and gas companies are getting a clear message: Drill, baby, drill — but carefully. Last week, state regulators approved one of the nation’s strongest requirements for testing water wells near drilling sites. The measure is intended to address concerns that […]

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Source: Guardian (UK), November 28, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Fracking may be impractical in parts of Britain where water supplies are scarce, the water industry revealed as it announced a deal with the oil and gas industry. Hydraulic fracturing technology is a controversial process of shale gas and oil extraction where water and chemicals at […]

Source: Asian News International, November 27, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A new study has revealed how pollution causes thunderstorms to leave behind larger, deeper, longer lasting clouds. Researchers had thought that pollution causes larger and longer-lasting storm clouds by making thunderheads draftier through a process known as convection. But atmospheric scientist Jiwen Fan and her […]

Source: New York Time Online, November 25, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The first sign that something was amiss at Great Kills Park, on Staten Island, came in 2005 when a police flyover of New York City detected a positive reading for radioactive material there. The finding, part of a counterterrorism search, did not come as […]

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Source: http://www.daily-chronicle.com, November 15, 2013 By: Jillian Duchnowski Planning is underway to replace the Keslinger Road bridge that collapsed in August 2008, thanks to a recent $900,000 settlement with Enbridge Energy. The lawsuit filed in October 2011 was dismissed Thursday after DeKalb County and Afton Township officials reached an agreement that will allow crews to […]

Source: http://investigations.nbcnews.com, November 18, 2013 By: Rebecca LaFlure, The Center for Public Integrity The government’s multi-billion-dollar effort to clean up the nation’s largest nuclear dump has become its own dysfunctional mess. For more than two decades, the government has worked to dispose of 56 million gallons of nuclear and chemical waste in underground, leak-prone tanks […]