Source: Dow Jones News Service, April 15, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Recent pipeline ruptures, including one at an Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) pipeline that caused a major oil spill in Arkansas last month, are raising fresh questions about the safety of pipes made decades ago using obsolete welding techniques. Though the industry stopped making what […]

Source: Ottawa Business Journal (Blog), April 15, 2013 By: Jeysa Martinez, Brazeau Seller LLP Innocent and blameless property owners may be exposed to significant environmental liability risk. When assessing environmental liability one might think that, if a land owner did not create nor contribute to an environmental spill or contamination, fault and fairness would be […]

Read here about a settlement that has been reached in a dispute over pulp mill pollution in Oregon.  

Source: http://www.lexology.com, April 5, 2013 By: David Erickson and Mark Anstoetter, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has entered a consent decree calling for two companies to conduct a cleanup and reimburse EPA’s cleanuprelated costs at the Puchack Well Field Superfund site in Pennsauken, New Jersey. United States v. SL […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, March 29, 2013 By: Kevin R. Fincel and John O’Connor, Steptoe & Johnson LLP In Westport Insurance Corporation v. VN Hotel Group, LLC, et al., 2013 WL 1196957 (11th Cir. March 22, 2013), the Eleventh Circuit, applying Florida law, held that the fungi/bacteria exclusion in the policy at issue did not exclude from […]

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com, April 8, 2013 By: Scott Learn After more than a year of legal wrangling, the city of Portland and five current and former property owners have agreed to move forward on one of Portland Harbor’s most contaminated sites. The $1.5 million in ” preliminary design” work agreed to at River Mile 11 is […]

Read here about a pollution trial in New Hampshire that has resumed after two weeks.

Read here about a lawsuit that has been brought against metals recycler in Nashville, Tennessee.  

Read here about the approval of a $243 million cleanup that has been approved for the Grasse River in New York.  

Source: Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ, April 7, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The company handling disposal of Hurricane Sandy debris here has a rather dirty history from the work it did along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, according to the director of the Sierra Club New Jersey chapter. The company, AshBritt, left new contaminated sites in […]

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press, April 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Environmental advocates in the region worry that the State Building Commission’s approval of the University of Tennessee’s request to seek natural gas drilling bids on UT property sets a bad precedent for publicly owned land. If the UT school of forestry can shop hydraulic […]

Read here about a fracking rush that is being seen in the southern counties of Illinois.