Source: Xinhua News Agency (China), March 13, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A pig farm in Jiaxing City, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on Wednesday confessed to dumping dead pigs into the Huangpu River, local authorities said. The admission came after a preliminary investigation traced the birthplace of some of the dead pigs found in a section […]

Read here about a painting company in St. Louis that has been fined for not taking precautions with lead-based paint.  

Read here about the owner of an aircraft painting company who pleaded guilty to hazardous waste violations.  

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 12, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Authorities in Shanghai late Tuesday appealed for calm as they acknowledged finding far more dead pigs in local rivers than earlier indicated and laid blame for the gruesome waterway disposal on careless farmers in a neighboring Chinese province. In its latest estimate, the Shanghai […]

Source: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 9, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An engineering group that influences building codes nationwide is drafting tough new standards to prevent Legionella, the waterborne bacteria blamed in a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Pittsburgh. Federal estimates show Legionnaires’, a form of pneumonia, kills more than 4,000 people and sickens about 21,000 […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 11, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chinese authorities said they found more than 3,300 dead pigs in a river that supplies water to Shanghai, a stark illustration of China’s problems with environmental pollution. Health and agricultural authorities in Shanghai said on Monday they were investigating any potential health impact from […]

Source: Buffalo News, March 11, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Nearly one-third of the people who recently applied to join a Love Canal lawsuit no longer live in Niagara Falls. And at least one of those people, according to a Buffalo News analysis of court records, never did live in the Love Canal neighborhood. “I anticipate […]

Source: http://www.enewspf.com, March 7, 2013 Corporate owners of dirty coal plant face hundreds of millions in potential fines and upgrades Corporate owners of one of the largest and most polluting coal plants in the nation, Colstrip Generating Facility located in Montana, landed in federal court today for what the Sierra Club and the Montana Environmental […]

Read here about new fracking rules that, if approved, could be the counties most strict.  

Source:c, March 6, 2013 Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. and PulteGroup, Inc. have agreed to pay civil penalties of $130,000 and $56,000 respectively in separate settlements with EPA resolving alleged Clean Water Act violations at construction sites in Maryland and Virginia. EPA alleged that the companies failed to take actions to prevent discharging sediment to nearby surface […]

Source: Zurich, C&DR Briefings, Winter 2013 By: J. Kent Holland, J.D., ConstructionRisk, LLC Pollution Liability Policies Necessary to Fill the Coverage Gap Introduction This newsletter reviews several court decisions from around the United States that applied the pollution exclusion in contractor’s commercial general liability (CGL) policies to deny coverage for damages that were deemed to […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 27, 2013 By: Edward V. Walsh, III, Reed Smith LLP Proposed hydraulic fracturing legislation in Illinois, with strong bi-partisan support and the backing of Illinois Governor Quinn, would impose strict controls on fracking companies relative to most other states where fracking occurs, including chemical disclosure requirements and in the case of water […]