Source: http://idahobusinessreview.com, June 27, 2013 By: John Baker An architect had occasion, for the first time, to call on his errors-and-omissions insurance policy for coverage. No suit had been filed; the architect’s client had not even made a claim. But over a period of months, the architect had grown concerned that some problems he had […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 25, 2013 By: Wayne J. D’Angelo and Andrew M. McNamee, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP The Environmental Protection Agency has abandoned its investigation into alleged groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing operations near Pavillion, Wyoming. The investigation will be continued by the state, funded by a $1.5 million grant from Encana Oil & […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 26, 2013 By: Megan R. Galey, Sarah Dotson Mathews and Scott E. Stewart, Husch Blackwell LLP On June 17, 2013, Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law the Illinois Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act, establishing a highly regulated permitting program for high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing activities that will be overseen by the Illinois […]

Source: http://www.flamboroughreview.com, June 29, 2013 By: Kevin Werner The federal Environment Ministry’s has cleared the $140-million project to clean up Randle Reef under the federal environment assessment program is one of the last hurdles to finally begin constructing the facility to contain the toxic sediment. “It’s exceptionally good news,” said Chris McLaughlin, executive director of […]

Read here about the increase of fracking waste in Ohio resulting from the shale gas and oil drilling process.

Read here about a chemical plan explosion in Louisiana that released thousands of pounds of toxic chemicals.  

Source: Dow Jones News Service, June 26, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com (FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 6/26/13) Poorly sealed natural-gas wells — not hydraulic fracturing of shale-rock formations — are likely to blame for dissolved gas found in private water wells in Pennsylvania, according to a new study by Duke University. Duke scientists found that […]

Source: http://www.nature.com, June 25, 2013 By: Jeff Tollefson Chemical analysis links methane in drinking wells to shale-gas extraction. As shale-gas operations expand across the United States, industry officials and environmentalists are at loggerheads over whether or not shale-gas extraction can contaminate groundwater. Now researchers have traced low levels of methane and other contaminants to a […]

Source: Greeley Tribune (CO), June 21, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com From her back porch on Wednesday evening, lifelong Windsor-area resident JoAnn Ochsner stared across a corn field and remembered the flurry of crews that raced to cap a damaged oil well that in February sent flowback fluid soaring into the air. That incident gathered widespread […]

Source: Xinhua News Agency (China), June 24, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com People living within one kilometer of shale gas wells appear to be at higher risk of having their drinking water contaminated by stray gases, a new U.S. study has found. Shale gas accounts for an increasing fraction of the U.S. natural gas supply, but […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, June 14, 2013 By: Wiley Rein LLP Applying Nevada law, a federal district court has held that an insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify claims alleging damage from design defects in houses constructed by the insureds due to the policy’s professional services exclusion. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. […]

Source: Greeley Tribune (CO), June 18, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com PDC Energy on Monday formally agreed to pay $35,000 in response to February’s 30-hour, 84,000-gallon fracking flow back fluid spill north of Windsor. During the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s meeting in Grand Junction, PDC offered to go above and beyond an otherwise minor […]