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 […]

Source: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 30, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Three companies that stored materials at a Westmoreland County scrap processing site between 1940 and 1970 owe the state about $2.3 million for cleaning up hazardous materials that seeped into the ground, the Department of Environmental Protection says in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. The […]

Source: Austin American-Statesman (TX), October 31, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com About 400 barrels of Texas-produced crude oil spilled on a ranch south of Smithville, contaminating a stock pond and causing the temporary shutdown of the pipeline. No injuries were reported. The spill was discovered Monday afternoon said Jake Reint, spokesman for the Koch Pipeline Company. […]

Read here about a chili odor emanating from a factory in California that is the subject of a lawsuit.  

Source: http://www.lexology.com, October 22, 2013 By: Anne C. Foster, Baker & Hostetler LLP A recent article published in the Akron Beacon Journal indicates (click here) that of the 183 water-well complaints received by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) between 2010 and mid-October 2013, “only six water supplies were impacted by drilling over the […]