Source: Business Monitor International, September 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com News: US-based supermarket chain Safeway is to pay US$600,000 and has agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from refrigeration equipment at its 659 US stores, reports USA Today. The company’s fine and agreed action make up the terms of a settlement it reached with the […]

Source: Ventura County Star (CA), September 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog is asking a Sacramento judge to halt the demolition and removal of buildings and contaminated waste from an area of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory used as a nuclear test site. Boeing Co., which owns most of the 2,800-acre […]

Read here about dredging activity that will take please in an effort to clean up an oil spill.  

Source: Akron Beacon Journal (OH), September 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Carroll County is the reigning Utica shale capital of Ohio. With 319 wells permitted, Carroll represents nearly 38 percent of the 858 wells the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has approved since late 2010. Chesapeake Energy, the No. 1 driller in Ohio, staked out […]

Read here about an Illinois sand company that has reached a settlement with the EPA over air pollution violations.  

Source: Dow Jones News Service, September 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Safeway Inc. (SWY) has agreed to pay a penalty of $600,000 and spend around $4.1 million to reduce its emissions of ozone-depleting substances and resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act, U.S. officials said. The supermarket company was accused of violating the […]

Source: The Telegraph, Nashua, NH, September 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The state is suing Shell Oil Co. for allegedly taking money that it wasn’t entitled to for oil spill cleanups and then suing its own insurance company for costs the state already had paid. Attorney General Joseph Foster announced the suit, filed in Merrimack […]

Source: The Daily Caller, August 30, 2013 By: Michael Bastasch The “war on coal” has five new casualties. A lawsuit brought by environmental groups has forced the shutdown of five Indiana coal-fired power plants by 2018, totalling 668 megawatts of power. Duke Energy announced that it would retire five coal plants as part of a […]

Source: Global Data Point, August 31, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com MarkWest Energy Partners LP agreed to invest $650,000 to reduce flaring events at its Javelina gas processing plant in Corpus Christi, Tex., as part of a settlement of charges it violated the federal Clean Air Act, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced. The consent decree […]

Source: Tulsa World (OK), September 1, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An array of computer monitors blinks with charts and graphs in a dark room at the south Tulsa headquarters of Explorer Pipeline. Employees are looking for even the slightest changes in pressure, outflow, anything that would indicate even the smallest discrepancy. Above the monitors on […]

Source: Legal Monitor Worldwide, August 31, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said “no” and the decision has already prompted at least one new air emissions lawsuit against a power plant owner. In Kristie Bell, et al. v. Cheswick Generating Station, GenOn Power Midwest, L.P., No. […]

Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH), September 1, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A fracking waste disposal well linked to 11 earthquakes that rocked the Youngstown area was the likely source of at least 98 additional temblors that were too weak for people to notice, according to new research. They were discovered by Columbia University researchers who analyzed […]