Read here about an underground oil leak in New York City that awaits cleanup.  

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com On a recent afternoon last month, a man and his dog jogged down a peaceful, winding lane in Moorestown past a row of tidy $725,000 homes that exhibited tiered fountains and stone goddesses. Not on display in the Wexford development were about 58 monitoring wells that […]

Read here about a plan in Colorado to sue over drilling bans.  

Read here about an oil refiner in Indiana who will pay millions to settle Clean Air Act violations.  

Read here about a landfill gas lawsuit filed in Hawaii by the EPA.

Source: http://www.lexology.com, February 22, 2013 By: Andrew H. Perellis and Ilana R. Morady, Seyfarth Shaw LLP If you sell products that you no longer need that contain residual hazardous substances, and the buyer mishandles them so as to create the need for remediation, are you liable under CERCLA for having arranged for disposal of the […]

Source: Indoor Environment Connections, April 2012 By: Thomas P. Bernier and Susan E. Smith, Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd., Baltimore MD Legionnaires’ disease is a serious, potentially lethal, type of pneumonia that is caused by bacteria of the genus Legionella. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 8,000 to 18,000 persons […]

Source: Business Insurance, February 24, 2013 By: Douglas McLeod Insurance coverage disputes are bound to follow fracking liability suits, including arguments over the scope of pollution exclusions in general liability policies, lawyers say. Along with operators extra expense policies, which cover cleanup costs from a well blowout, general liability policies also cover “sudden and accidental” […]

Source: http://theenergycollective.com, February 24, 2013 By: Jim Pierobon Illinois is on track to go where no push for hydraulic fracturing has gone before in the U.S.: a consensus on how to regulate the controversial practice of injecting chemicals and large amounts of water deep underground to flush out large quantities of natural gas and crude […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, February 25, 2013 By: Ryan Hutchins/The Star-Ledger A resolution may be near for scores of towns, public authorities and corporations that were dragged into one of the costliest hazardous waste cases in U.S. history. A confidential proposal, a copy of which was provided to The Star-Ledger, would allow towns to extricate themselves from […]

Source: http://www.heraldonline.com, February 22, 2013 By: David Wren The Southern Environmental Law Center on Thursday filed a notice with the Environmental Protection Agency and others alleging that state-owned utility Santee Cooper is violating the federal Clean Water Act by allowing pollution at its Grainger electric generating plant here to seep into the Waccamaw River. Santee […]

Read here about a regulatory bill in Illinois that is being negotiated to address ground rules for the hydraulic fracturing industry.