Source: http://www.desertdispatch.com, June 20, 2011 By: Karen Jonas The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board released a draft order last week that would require Pacific Gas and Electric to provide whole-house replacement water for Hinkley residents who have been affected by chromium 6. The current cleanup and abatement order requires PG&E to provide temporary bottled […]

Read here about a chromium contamination settlement that was reached between the State of New Jersey and three chemical companies.

Source: http://www.vcstar.com, June 14, 2011 By: Kevin Clerici Environmental regulators noted in their latest findings that there is contaminated soil in a drainage canal and lagoon near the shuttered Halaco metals recycling plant at Ormond Beach in Oxnard. Like previous results from a ditch in March, the contamination levels could pose a risk to wildlife […]

Source: http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com, June 8, 2011 A Lakewood property owner is being sued by the state attorney general for hiring a contractor who did not follow asbestos removal protocol when demolishing two buildings on Middle Avenue in Elyria. The two properties at 518 and 522 Middle Avenue came down in May 2007. At that time, Donald […]

Source: http://greenanswers.com, June 8, 2011 By: Julie M. Rodriguez Across the US, abandoned mines languish awaiting cleanup efforts – up to 500,000 of them. An estimated 40% of Western rivers are tainted with the toxic discharge of these sites. There are at least 7,300 abandoned mines across the state of Colorado alone. 450 of these […]

Source: Record (Hackensack, NJ), June 6, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Three years after EnCap’s collapse, renewed efforts to seal four contaminated Meadowlands landfills are more than a year behind schedule and running out of cash. Closing the old dumps, which have despoiled waterways and defied would-be developers for decades, could eventually cost more than $172 million and […]

Source: http://www.post-gazette.com, June 6, 2011 By: Don Hopey GenOn Northeast Management Co. has agreed to pay $5 million to settle charges that wastewater discharges from its Conemaugh coal-fired power plant into the Conemaugh River violated the federal Clean Water Act on 8,684 days since 2005. The 13-page proposed settlement, which also requires the power plant […]

Source: http://www.denverpost.com, May 30, 2011 By: Bruce Finley As mountain snow starts to melt, trickling toxic acid laced with dissolved metals — arsenic, cadmium, copper, zinc — is fouling Colorado watersheds. Nobody dares try to stop it. Among the casualties: Peru Creek east of the Keystone ski area has been pronounced “biologically dead.” State environmental […]

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review , May 19, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Companies whose specialty is treating wastewater are hoping for a surge of business after today’s deadline for natural gas drillers to voluntarily stop sending their toxic flowback from hydraulic fracturing to publicly owned treatment plants. “It’s a game changer. My phone is ringing off the […]

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 12, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency authorized the cleanup of the Carter Carburetor plant in north St. Louis earlier this year, it was supposed to mark the beginning of the end for the industrial eyesore staining part of North Grand Boulevard. But a quarter-century after […]

Source: http://www.sbnonline.com, May 1, 2011 Virtually every real property deal carries a risk of environmental liability. Prior to acquiring or leasing a site, the business should consult a competent transactional lawyer to negotiate contractual protections in the contract or lease that minimize the exposure and risk of environmental liability. These protections may include lengthy due […]

Check out Tim Farrell’s article “Insurance Is Far More Than a Piece of Paper,” which is published in the April issue of Construction Executive Magazine. http://ow.ly/4A8yx