Source: The Willits News (CA), January 19, 2013 By: Bruce Finley, The Denver Post A snow-covered tailings heap on Boreas Pass leaks toxic cadmium and zinc, deadly for fish, into creeks that flow down through Breckenridge and, eventually, into Denver’s Dillon Reservoir. This mining mess from a century ago sat largely ignored until Friday, when […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 11, 2013 By: David Erickson and Mark Anstoetter, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP A federal court in California has determined that the manufacturer of a dry-cleaning machine is not liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) for releases that occurred during the machine’s operation. KFD Enters. Inc. v. […]

Source: Law360, January 16, 2013 By: Sean McLernon A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday allowed property developers to add a new plaintiff and additional claims in a $20 million environmental cleanup suit against Honeywell International Inc., finding that the allegations are timely and relate back to the original complaint. U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas E. […]

Source: Law360, Janauary 16, 2013 By: Ama Sarfo Odors emanating from a Roxbury, N.J., landfill that has battled with the state and a proposed class of residents are a nuisance, but not a health hazard, a court-appointed independent environmental expert said in a report Tuesday. Following a request from Morris County Superior Court Judge Deanne […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 15, 2013 By: Brian Margolies, Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLC In its recent decision in Hardy Oil Co. v. Nationwide Agribusiness Ins. Co., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4760 (E.D. Ky. Jan. 11, 2013), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky had occasion to consider the application of […]

Source: Mondaq Business Briefing, January 15, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com In addition to widespread power outages and property damage, Hurricane Sandy also generated a host of other issues for employers. One issue that local employers face is whether their worksites contain biological or chemical hazards due to flooding or contamination. A common concern for employers […]

Source: New Hampshire Union Leader, January 14, 2013 By: Dave Solomon Attorneys for Citgo Petroleum Corp. called for a mistrial on Monday only half way into the first day of what many observers believe is the largest civil trial in New Hampshire history. Superior Court Justice Judge Peter H. Fauver denied the motion, but agreed […]

Source: The Baltimore Sun, January 14, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The operator of three coal-fired power plants in Maryland has agreed to pay a total of $2.2 million in penalties and fix long-standing pollution problems at the landfills in Southern Maryland and Montgomery County where it disposes of the ash from those plants, according to […]

Read here about reactions of environmentalists to the Perdue lawsuit outcome.  

Source: Chicago Tribune, January 13, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Thousands of landowners downstate have sold their rights to drill for oil and natural gas for upfront fees ranging from $50 to $350 per acre, plus a cut of the profits. Others are fighting to prevent the drilling out of fear that they could be exposed […]

Read here about a Superfund site in New Jersey that is nearing completion of arsenic cleanup.  

Source: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (MN), December 29, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chuck Alvord’s job used to be so simple. Smash. Remove. Repeat. But today, Alvord and others in the demolition business don’t destroy buildings as much as recycle them — and saving about 70 percent of what they find. “When I started, we’d just […]