Source: Lodi News-Sentinel (CA), April 4, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Save Mart Supermarkets must pay $2.6 million in civil penalties, costs and expenses for supplemental environmental projects furthering consumer protection and environmental enforcement in the state in a settlement reached Tuesday with 35 California district attorneys. The civil enforcement action was filed in San Joaquin […]

Read here about thousands of barrels of oil and water that have been recovered after a pipeline ruptured in Arkansas.  

Source: Straits Times (Singapore), April 3, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A new “environmental time bomb” is ticking away in China, according to a new Greenpeace report citing tonnes of hazardous waste being dumped illegally by fertiliser manufacturers near residential areas. Investigations carried out by the environmental activist group in several areas in south-western Sichuan province […]

Read here about a manufacturing company in Iowa that has been fined by the EPA for mishandling hazardous waste.  

Read here about how wildlife in the Northeast is being threatened because of the gas drilling boom.  

Read here about an oil spill in Michigan that left a sheen on the Grand River.  

Source: http://www.irmi.com, March 2013 By: Mark M. Bell, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP CGL coverage for pollution-related losses has seen significant changes over the past 40 years. These changes have resulted both because of changes within the standard Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), CGL policy and because of courts’ inconsistent application of the term […]

Source: The Gazette, Colorado, April 1, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A wave of oil and gas exploration in El Paso County may be short-lived. Ultra Resources has shelved plans for drilling in the area after its wells in eastern El Paso County produced disappointing results; Ultra is waiting to see what another company, Hilcorp Energy, […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 31, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com (FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 4/1/13) Crews cleaned up thousands of barrels of crude over the weekend after an Exxon Mobil Corp. pipeline ruptured and polluted an Arkansas town — an incident that underscored the fragility of the U.S. pipeline network. Exxon said Friday’s […]

Read here about a $3 million fine to be paid by Honeywell for pollution at its Hopewell, VA plant.  

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 22, 2013 By: David Erickson and Mark Anstoetter The owner of a Colorado company that paints aircraft has pleaded guilty to improper treatment of a hazardous waste. United States v. Teltow, No. 1:13-0027 (D. Colo. 3/12/13). Owner Norman Teltow could be sentenced to a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 […]

Source: Wisconsin State Journal, March 27, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Responding to the explosion in the number of frac-sand mining operations in Wisconsin, state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout is circulating a set of five bills that would give local governments and property owners more information and more power over the location and operation of such facilities. […]