Source: Bangor Daily News, July 26, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Maine Department of Environmental Protection on Friday continued to oversee the cleanup of 200-225 gallons of home heating oil that spilled Wednesday on Higgins Road. West Bath firefighters were called Wednesday afternoon to 44 Higgins Road, where homeowners reported the oil spill. Ann Hemenway […]

Read here about lawsuit brought by environmental groups in New York over dairy farm regulations.  

Source: http://www.propertycasualty360.com, July 26, 2013 By: Anya Khalamayzer The rate of global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) has seen a recent uptick, prompting a need for growing companies to review their global environmental liability strategies, says a report by ACE’s retail operations group. 2012 showed M&A growth, according to Mergermarket statistics, with the year’s first quarter […]

Source: http://www.northjersey.com, July 29, 2013 By: Scott Fallon After a month’s delay, preliminary work to remove dioxin-laden mud from the banks of the Passaic River next to a popular county park is scheduled to begin Tuesday, according to the companies funding the $20 million project. The delay came when workers were unable to open the […]

Source: Business Insurance, July 29, 2013 By: Judy Greenwald A federal appellate court panel has upheld a $104.7 million judgment for New York City against Exxon Mobil Corp. for allegedly contaminating city-owned wells in Queens with a gasoline additive from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s. Irving, Texas-based Exxon Mobil said it plans to appeal the […]

Source: Quad-City Times, July 26, 2013 Attorney General Tom Miller announced Thursday the filing of an amendment to the State’s environmental lawsuit against Grain Processing Corporation (GPC), pending in Muscatine County District Court. The original suit, which was filed in December 2011, alleged air and water pollution control violations by GPC. According to a press […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, July 19, 2013 By: John L. Watkins and Russ Rogers, Thompson Hine LLP Overview On July 18, 2013, in Taylor Morrison Services, Inc. v. HDI-Gerling Ins. Co., the Supreme Court of Georgia decided two important certified questions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that affirm and expand the […]

Source: http://www.wyomingnews.com, July 21, 2013 By: Trevor Brown Proposed new regulations move forward after an informal rule-making process. A plan to require energy companies to test groundwater quality before and after drilling in Wyoming is closer to becoming a reality. But environmentalists, landowner groups and industry members say how the state implements the policy could […]

Source: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com, July 19, 2013 By: David Wren A pollution trial that was sidetracked last year by a lack of jurors is scheduled to start Monday in Conway with would-be condominium developers JDS Development of Myrtle Beach Inc. blaming the failure of their project on groundwater contamination caused by electronics manufacturer AVX Corp. David and […]

Source: Oil & Gas Journal, July 19, 2013 By: Nick Snow ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary XTO Energy Inc. agreed to pay a $100,000 fine and to spend $20 million to improve wastewater management practices in Pennsylvania and West Virginia natural gas operations. The agreement came in a settlement of federal water pollution charges, the US Department […]

Read here about a study that showed that chemicals from natural gas drilling did not contaminate drinking water aquifers in Pennsylvania.

Source: http://www.startribune.com, July 13, 2013 By: Tony Kennedy In Wisconsin, frac-sand mines in Trempealeau, Buffalo and Barron counties are creating unstable piles of sand waste and illicit wastewater runoff. In Minnesota, state health officials are studying two chemicals widely used in frac-sand processing as contaminants of “emerging concern.” Four years into a mining boom that […]