Source: Vindicator, Youngstown, OH, December 26, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The amount of air pollution associated with hydraulic fracturing continues to be a point of contention among environmentalists, industry leaders and scientists. Scientists have been divided about the potential air-quality benefits of natural gas compared with coal when fugitive emissions — gas that escapes from […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 24, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com When the VA Pittsburgh Health Care System first revealed on Nov. 16 that it had an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease that sickened four patients at its Oakland veterans hospital, it blamed a water treatment system that had been in use there since 1993. In the last […]

Read here about new shale gas regulations that are likely to pass by the end of February in New York.  

Source: Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ, December 24, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com For more than a month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has said that Hurricane Sandy didn’t cause significant problems at any of the 247 Superfund toxic waste sites it’s monitoring in New York and New Jersey. But in many cases, no actual tests of soil […]

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 23, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Early next year, a sophisticated air quality monitor is expected to go into operation near O.D. Wyatt High School in Fort Worth, the 11th such device deployed to measure pollutants in the Barnett Shale. The monitors, four of which were installed this year in Arlington, […]

Source: http://www.nctimes.com, December 19, 2012 By: Michael J. Williams Residents of a Wildomar neighborhood attending a meeting with county and state officials this week vehemently called on them to investigate whether the soil on their properties is contaminated. “People are sick and dying. We have lost everything,” said Xonia Villanueva, directing her remarks at representatives […]

Source: Courthouse News Service, December 20, 2012 By: Joseph Celentino Owners and insurers connected to an Indiana landfill abandoned in the early 1980s may have to shell out additional funds for cleanup efforts, the 7th Circuit ruled. From 1977 to 1982, Environmental Chemical and Conservation Co., or Enviro-Chem, operated waste-disposal and recycling sites near Zionsville, […]

Source: http://blog.cleanenergy.org, December 21, 2012 By: Angela Garrone, Esq. Just before 1 a.m. on Monday, December 22, 2008, TVA’s coal ash impoundment at its Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, TN ruptured and spilled 1.1 billion gallons (5.4 million cubic yards) of toxic coal ash into the surrounding community and waterways – covering more than […]

Read here about a hearing date that has been set as a result of a media request to open files related to a drilling lawsuit.  

Read here about a Maryland judge who has ruled that a chicken farmer is not responsible for pollution in a nearby river.  

Read here about a Texas company that has been fined for a sinkhole and oil and methane releases in Louisiana.  

Source: The Joplin Globe (MO), December 19, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A munitions demolition plant near Carthage has agreed to pay a federal penalty of nearly $600,000 to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act. Those allegations against EBV Explosives Environmental Co. include operating a thermal treatment unit without obtaining a valid permit, exceeding […]