Source: Modesto Bee (CA), November 28, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Stanislaus County and Modesto are in a legal dispute regarding who is responsible for environmental work and the cleanup of pollutants that are released from the former Geer Road landfill. In April 2011, state authorities ordered the county to take more aggressive cleanup action for […]

Source: Daily Mail, London England, November 27, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com LIVING near a busy road could treble the risk of childhood autism, scientists warned yesterday. Exposure to air pollution in the womb or during the first year of life was linked to a twofold increase in a child’s chances of having the disorder. But […]

Read here about an oil recycling facility in Wisconsin that has been fined for violating hazardous waste laws.  

Source: http://www.lexology.com, November 2, 2012 By: Mary Beth Forshaw and Bryce L. Friedman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP A Missouri district court ruled that a pollution exclusion excused an insurer from any duty to defend claims arising out of exposure to harmful lead products. Doe Run Resources Corp. v. Lexington Ins. Co., 2012 WL 4480732 […]

Source: The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, VA, November 23, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Winter dredging, a century-old method for harvesting blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay, has long been vilified for harming the ecosystem and undercutting crab populations. When it was banned four years ago, conservationists cheered — and crab abundance boomed. Now, with stocks continuing to […]

Source: The Record, Hackensack, NJ, November 25, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Superstorm Sandy inundated hundreds of homes in Moonachie and Little Ferry with dirty floodwater and caused one of the largest sewage spills in North Jersey history. While the environmental damage brought about by the superstorm is significant, it could have been much worse: Officials […]

Source: Tribune-Review, November 25, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Hempfield taxpayers shelled out more than $32,000 to dredge a creek running through a township park that damaged nearby wetlands, according to a review of bills and work orders obtained under the state’s Right-to-Know Act. Taxpayers can expect the costs to keep climbing because remediation work on […]

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press, November 23, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A man who chose the cheap way to tear down an old textile mill in East Chattanooga and exposed a neighborhood to asbestos will be allowed to appeal his four-year sentence on the taxpayers’ dime — at least for now. Don Fillers, while awaiting […]

Read here about why fracking regulations in New York will be delayed into 2013.  

Source: http://www.rep-am.com, November 21, 2012 By: Barbara Moran Laundry find in Waterbury leads to larger probe The moment Mark Spiro walked into G&K Services, an industrial laundry in Waterbury, the steamy air stung his eyes and made his head ache. The place reeked of chemical solvents: methyl ethyl ketone, xylene, toluene — the sickly sweet […]

Source: http://www.lexology.com, November 2, 2012 By: Sean Wajert, Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP The issue of mold-related litigation remains of interest to our readers, perhaps even more so in the aftermath of the widespread damage from Sandy. Recently a federal judge rejected claims alleging that Welk Resort San Diego allowed mold to grow in its […]

Source: BestWire Services, November 21, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Even now, weeks after Hurricane Sandy battered much of the East Coast of the United States, the storm is causing damage to some of the hardest hit areas in New York and New Jersey. As John Beauchamp of Beazley Group points out, Sandy’s devastation not only […]