Source: National Real Estate Investor, January 9, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com When sustainability standards for commercial buildings were introduced in the mid-1990s, contractors were often expected to provide guarantees that the property would receive certification for the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) or Energy Star. But since professionals […]

Source: http://www.theolympian.com, January 10, 2012 By: John Dodge Plaza project: Total cost almost $5 million; spring opening targeted Environmental cleanup costs associated with the East Bay Plaza project totaled nearly $340,000, according to LOTT Clean Water Alliance officials. The 0.74-acre plaza between LOTT’s WET Science Center and the Hands On Children’s Museum on Olympia Avenue […]

Source: http://www.courierpostonline.com, January 9, 2012 By: Eileen Stilwell The U.S. Department of Environmental Protection has filed a civil lawsuit against a Philadelphia contractor for improperly removing asbestos from a commercial building in Gibbstown. The suit charges Lovett Contracting of Northeast Philadelphia with removing approximately 3,000 feet of asbestos insulation from above-ground piping and tossing it […]

Source: http://www.nj.com, January 10, 2012 By: Travis Fedschun/The Jersey Journal The Jersey Journal Jersey City firefighters and PSE&G crews responded to a gas main leak yesterday at 900 Garfield Ave. after a contractor mistakenly struck and ruptured the line, fire officials said. The gas line, located just east of Garfield and Dakota avenues, was punctured […]

Read here about an Atlanta company being held responsible for arsenic and iron coming from a an mine shaft and polluting a portion of a river system in Idaho.

Source: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com, January 9, 2012 By: Andrew George While Lower Mount Bethel Township supervisors aren’t necessarily pleased about sludge coming to township farms, there’s really not a lot they can do about it. Several township farmers approached the Lower Mount Bethel Township Board of Supervisors last week to inform members of their plans to begin […]

Source: http://www.gfmag.com, January 2012 By: Anita Hawser Environmental risk insurers are offering more sophisticated solutions and a broader range of coverage amounts. A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Moerdijk, Netherlands, in January 2011. The plant belonged to Dutch chemicals company Chemie-Pack, which used it to store hazardous chemicals. Although no one was […]

Source: The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA), January 2, 2012 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Harrisburg businessman says he didn’t quite know what he was bidding on when he offered to buy a plot of marshland where 5,000 tons of toxic waste was dumped in the 1990s. James Halkias didn’t know an additional 676 drums of metallic […]

Read here about how opponents of hydraulic fracturing in New York are looking to enact local laws to ban the practice.

Source: Beaver County Times (PA), December 26, 2011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com About 900 claims have been filed by motorists who suffered damage to their vehicles after a truck spilled thousands of gallons of liquid asphalt on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in November, and those claims will likely total more than the trucking company’s insurance policy will […]

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com, December 22, 2011 By: Tiffany Kary Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) can exclude some evidence from a $15.5 billion pollution lawsuit brought by creditors of Tronox Inc., the chemical maker that says it was driven into bankruptcy after it was saddled with environmental liabilities. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan today agreed to […]

Source: “Legal Insights,” A Publication of Havkins Rosenfeld Ritzert & Varriale, LLP, Spring 2011-Volume 5, Issue 1 By: Tara C. Fappiano Deep within the earth is a layer of sedimentary rock that is the gas-rich Marcellus Shale, a substantial portion of which lies in the Southern Tier, Twin Tiers and Catskills region of New York State. Hydro-fracking, […]