Source: USA Today.com, March 14, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Armed with long bamboo poles, masked workers continued to haul dead hogs from a river in the Shanghai suburbs Thursday, where the pig body count now exceeds 6,600, according to the municipal government. City officials repeated reassurances to a nervous public that the drinking water in […]

Source: The Baltimore Sun, March 9, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Times are good these days at the Linde Corp., where despite a sluggish economy nationally, the company is on a hiring binge. The construction company, based near Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, has seen its workforce nearly triple over the past five years as it switched […]

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Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 14, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Generic-drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA, TEVA.TV) will pay $2.25 million to settle allegations its plant in Missouri broke environmental laws over a period of years, including by releasing pollutants that discolored part of a nearby river, the U.S. Justice Department said. The […]

Source: Modern Contractor Solutions, February 2013 By: Jeff Slivka, New Day Underwriting Managers LLC Green has become the new mantra for the construction industry. As a result, contractors nationwide are increasingly striving to meet owner demands for projects that are not only designed with sustainable and eco-friendly products, but also achieve measurable results such as […]

Source: http://www.mondaq.com, March 12, 2013 By: Andrea Cortland, Cozen O’Connor On February 15, 2013 a Pennsylvania federal district court held that the shipment of defective drywall from China to the United States constituted one “occurrence” for purposes of insurance coverage, and the occurrence took place when the damage caused by the drywall manifested itself in […]

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 […]

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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 […]