Source: http://www.northjersey.com, September 22, 2011 By: Lindsey Kelleher Township resident Michael Gordon, partner in the Springfield law firm Gordon & Gordon, served as lead counsel representing the State of New Jersey in a case that is holding two chemical companies financially responsible for pollution in the Passaic River. The state is also represented by the […]

Source: http://savannahnow.com, September 22, 2011 By: Mary Landers King America Finishing has agreed to fund $1 million worth of environmental projects on the Ogeechee River as part of a consent order prompted by a massive fish kill in May. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division executed the order Wednesday after investigations into the fish kill revealed […]

Source: New York Times Online, September 23, 2011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com As bedbugs have made a comeback, aided by resistance to pesticides and spread by worldwide travel, scientists have found that panic over the blood-sucking pests may be more dangerous than their bite. Some people are misusing poisonous chemicals in a desperate bid to eradicate […]

Source: Hartford Courant (CT), September 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Contamination on 200 acres in the town’s Meadowood section that was once used to grow tobacco is being cleaned up this week in preparation for a proposed 296-home housing development. Residents living near the property, bounded by Hoskins Road on the south, County Road on […]

Source: Sun (Yuma, AZ), September 20, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com BTZ, a Yuma excavation and demolition contractor, has agreed to pay a $110,000 penalty for asbestos and air quality violations from its demolition activities and at its asphalt plant, according to the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and Arizona Attorney General’s Office. “Arizona companies […]

Source: Western Farm Press, September 20, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Kansas feedlot operator is trying to make hay by falsely claiming that EPA defined hay as a water pollutant. The owner of the Callicrate Feeding Company has been spinning a “hay-as-pollutant” myth through the blogosphere for a couple of weeks now. While the company […]

Source: The Daily Star (Oneonta, NY), September 20, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A lawsuit filed against the town of Middlefield last week that seeks to overturn its ban on gas drilling could set legal precedent in the state, several who spoke on the subject Friday and Monday said. Cooperstown Holstein Corporation vs. Town of Middlefield was filed […]

Source: http://www.nctimes.com, September 16, 2011 By: Paul Sisson Just as long-awaited efforts to clean up the site of former gravel mine in Oceanside got underway last month, heavy earth-moving equipment uncovered two more patches of contaminated soil near where Buena Vista Creek cuts through the land. Marvin Howell, director of land use planning and permitting […]

Source: http://onlineathens.com, September 20, 2011 By: Lee Shearer An Oconee County land development company has sued the state Board of Regents, claiming a University of Georgia construction waste landfill spilled over onto its property. According to Phoenix Development and Land Investment LLC of Watkinsville, UGA contract workers accidentally buried construction waste on the company’s land, […]

Source: http://www.manufacturing.net, September 19, 2011 Cleanup of household appliances, contaminated soil, drums filled with toxic waste and other hazardous materials was completed recently by the US Environmental Protection Agency at an abandoned one-acre residential parcel in Hillsborough, N.H. The cleanup of the Davison Property site at 471 Second NH Turnpike (Route 31) began in January […]

Source: http://www.dbusinessnews.com, September 19, 2011 Chromium 6 is used in dyes, pigments, leather tanning, wood preserving, and chrome plating. Chromium 6 is a by-product of metal plating and is classified as a carcinogen when inhaled as particles or fumes. When chromium 6 gets into water, the effects are equally as damaging. Out of 1,591 National […]

Source: Reuters, September 20, 2011 Posted on: http://www.businessinsurance.com A lawsuit challenging a small town’s ban on natural-gas drilling could have implications throughout New York state, where officials are poised to approve a controversial drilling method known as fracking. Privately held Anschutz Exploration Corp. filed suit Friday against Dryden, a rural suburb of Ithaca, N.Y., with […]