Source: The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, March 19, 2013 By: John G. Nevius, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C. Many jurisdictions have announced that they plan to more actively pursue natural resource damages (“NRDs”) from potentially responsible parties (“PRPs”) deemed liable under CERCLA or Superfund. Recent developments in case law have changed the landscape when it comes […]

Source: Earth Techling, March 2013 By: Beth Buczynski Anti-fracking activists in New York State have conducted one of the first methane baseline assessments on an area that will soon be home to a natural gas compressor station. It’s hoped that by establishing a baseline measurement of ambient methane, residents will be able to prove fracking’s […]

Read here about a Connecticut bill that would ban hydraulic fracturing waste.  

Read here about an appeals court in New Jersey that ruled that the state is within its rights to waive its own rules on request.  

Source: http://blog.al.com, March 21, 2013 By: Ben Raines Mobile Gas failed to report its 2008 mercaptan spill in Prichard’s Eight Mile community to the National Response Center as required by federal law. Anytime a company spills a “reportable quantity” of a listed hazardous substance into the environment, federal officials must be notified, according to the […]

Source: The Wilson Daily Times (NC), March 16, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com State regulators are investigating a reported hog waste spill that environmental groups say could contaminate the Contentnea Creek and Neuse River. N.C. Division of Water Quality inspectors on Friday took water samples from an unnamed stream near a Murphy-Brown farm southeast of Stantonsburg. […]

Source: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com, March 18, 2013 By: Dan Stamm About 50 gallons of chemical Phenol spills into river About 50 gallons of a chemical spilled into the Delaware River overnight leaving two people hospitalized. Firefighters responded to the Kinder Morgan plant at 3300 N Delaware Avenue in the industrial area of the Port Richmond section of […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 12, 2013 By: Alba Alessandro, Hodgson Russ LLP Wind energy is a force to be reckoned with. U.S. wind power capacity represents more than 20 percent of the world’s installed wind power with a utility scale of 60,000MW. In 2012, of the 39 states with utility-scale wind installations, Texas, California, Iowa, Illinois, […]

Source: Palos Verdes Patch, March 16, 2013 Federal regulators have just sided with San Pedro area activists who claim that a tank farm storing up to 26 million gallons of liquid petroleum gas sits in an earthquake danger zone and is otherwise unsafe. The Environmental Protection Agency late last week told Plains LPG Services it […]

State of Vermont, Waste Management & Prevention Division Solid Waste Management Moretown Landfill – Online Documents    

Source: BBC Newsfile (UK), March 17, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has vowed to tackle with mounting problems of environment pollution and food safety with “greater resolution and actions.” “We are going to upgrade China’s economic development model, which means the people should be able to enjoy clean air, safe drinking water […]

Source: Tampa Tribune, March 17, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An East Tampa scrap yard is in line to become the city’s latest industrial site targeted for environmental cleanup. Trademark Metals Recycling LLC has asked the city and state to designate property it owns in an industrial zone east of Ybor City as a brownfield. The […]