Source: http://www.pottsmerc.com, September 18, 2013 By: Evan Brandt The state is stepping in to make sure a half-million-dollar environmental cleanup at a closed plating facility in the borough gets completed after the bankrupt owner stopped work. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced Wednesday it would take over the removal of hazardous materials left over […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, September 4, 2013 By: Stanley A. Martin, Duane Morris LLP The contractor’s excavator digging the foundation for a new building undermines the abutting building, which collapses, and a worker is injured. In the subsequent lawsuits, one by the abutter and one by the injured worker, the project owner tenders the defense to its […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, September 13, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com (FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 9/14/13) RIO DE JANEIRO — U.S. energy firm Chevron Corp. on Friday agreed to pay about $42 million to settle lawsuits related to an offshore oil spill in late 2011, much less than the $20 billion in damages that […]

Source: Houston Chronicle, September 10, 2013 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Tons of toxic gases spewed from a tower at BP’s Texas City refinery for more than 40 days in 2010 without warning to the public. This week four of more than 48,000 residents who sued BP claiming health damage from the release will be the first […]

Source: The Economist, September 7, 2013 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com How much should upwind states care if their filth blows next door? “ON SOME days even if we shut down the entire state, we would be in violation of some health standards because of pollution coming over from other states.” Thus the late Senator Frank Lautenberg […]

Source: http://www.baltimorebrew.com, September 9, 2013 By: Mark Reutter City Council slated to give final approval tonight of the contentious $107 million financing package for Harbor Point. On the eve of tonight’s expected approval of a $107 million financing package for Harbor Point by the City Council, a group of Fells Point residents is seeking answers […]

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 […]