Read here about an MTBE Pollution Liability lawsuit against major oil companies that is expected to get underway soon.  

Source: http://articles.philly.com, January 3, 2013 By: Thomas W. Merrill and David M. Schizer In the new movie Promised Land, Matt Damon plays an energy worker in rural Pennsylvania who has a crisis of conscience about the environmental risks of the drilling method known as fracking. But the reality is much more promising than Promised Land […]

Source: BBC International Reports (Asia), January 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Contamination in a north Chinese river has led to the water supply in Handan, a city with more than 1 million people in Hebei Province, being cut off since Saturday afternoon. A statement by the city government said the cut-off was caused by an […]

Source: AFP World News, January 6, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Air pollution in Tehran has left 4,460 people dead in a year, an Iranian health official said in reports Sunday, with another sounding the alarm over high dose of carcinogens in domestically-made petrol. Hassan Aqajani, an adviser to the health minister, made the announcement on […]

Source: The News-Gazette (Illinois), January 6, 2013 By: Tracy Moss In the late 1980s, Zala Swigart worked at the Murdock coal mine, weighing the trucks hauling coal out of the underground operation that’s less than a mile from where she lives. Now, Swigart, 67, watches trucks hauling material into the former Douglas County mine even […]

Read here about an Oregon contractor who will pay nearly a quarter of a million dollars for allowing muddy water to flow into streams.

Read here about the head of the U.S. EPA resigning in response to Obama’s plans to approve TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline in the near future.  

Read here about how Perdue Farms is seeking over $2 million in attorney fees after it won a poultry pollution case in Maryland.

Read here about testing done by OSHA that revealed contamination from Sandy in New York and New Jersey is below permissible limits.

Read here about a lawsuit brought by environmentalists in North Carolina that aims to stop groundwater pollution from toxic coal ash waste.  

Source: Environment News Service, January 9, 2013 The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Los Angeles County’s Flood Control District can side-step responsibility for the high levels of polluted stormwater found in the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers, but only temporarily. In a lawsuit initiated in 2008 by the Natural Resources Defense Council […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, January 7, 2013 By: John David Dickenson and Matthew Criscuolo, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP On November 1, 2012, the Virginia Supreme Court issued its opinion in TravCo Insurance Company v. Ward,1 and became the first state high court to determine that several exclusions contained within a homeowners’ insurance policy were applicable and barred […]