Source: http://articles.philly.com, June 9, 2007 By: Jeremy Rogoff Residents of parts of West Conshohocken and Upper Merion were advised to stay indoors yesterday after a dump truck carrying 40,000 pounds of sulfur waste overturned yesterday morning on a Blue Route off-ramp, spilling its load and causing a cloud of hazardous gas to form. Traffic was […]

Source: Merced Sun-Star (CA), July 15, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The city of Merced will pay $1.5 million to more than 2,200 plaintiffs as a settlement in the 4-year-old Beachwood contamination and flooding case, in which residents alleged a plant near the neighborhood contaminated the air and water around them. The plant used industrial chemicals […]

Source: Bangor Daily News, June 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Nearly three weeks after a tractor-trailer accident caused 5,000 gallons of gasoline to spill out onto the ground, officials with the state Department of Environmental Protection and additional crews continue to oversee the cleanup effort. Samantha Depoy-Warren, spokesperson for the DEP, said there are no […]

Source: Dow Jones News Service, June 19, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The natural-gas industry, bowing to longtime pressure, will disclose more information about the chemicals it uses in the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing. On Friday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed into law a bill that will require companies to make public the chemicals they […]

Source: Greeley Tribune (Colorado), June 5, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Last month, researchers at Duke University unleashed a mini bombshell on the oil and gas industry with a study demonstrating a strong link between oil and gas drilling and groundwater contamination. But no sooner did their study come out that many refuted its findings, stating […]

Source: http://www.scpr.org, May 24, 2011 By: Molly Peterson Homeowners in Carson’s Carousel neighborhood have faced setbacks in their efforts to hold developers and the Shell Oil company responsible for toxic soil under their houses. Regional water regulators have told Shell to clean up what was for 40 years a tank farm with open reservoirs of […]

Source: http://themorningsun.com, March 31, 2011 By: Linda Gittleman After five long years of negotiations, St. Louis has reached a $26.5 million settlement in its suit against Velcisol Chemical Co. and others over contamination of the city’s water supply. In special meetings on Sunday and again on Tuesday, the St. Louis City Council unanimously approved the […]

Source: http://themorningsun.com, March 30, 2011 By: Linda Gittleman After five long years of negotiations, St. Louis has reached a $26.5 million settlement in its suit against Velcisol Chemical Co. and others over contamination of the city’s water supply. In special meetings on Sunday and again on Tuesday, the St. Louis City Council unanimously approved the […]

Read here about a family in Colorado who filed a lawsuit alleging oil and gas drilling activities contaminated their drinking water.

Source: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), March 25, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A Philadelphia law firm representing hundreds of plaintiffs in a 10-year-old gasoline spill lawsuit resolved all of their outstanding cases, according to the law firm’s public relations firm. The Locks Law Firm represented more than 200 plaintiffs in the case in which Hazleton-area residents […]

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press, March 10, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com An environmental cleanup crew is soaking up the remains of a 200-gallon diesel spill that happened in Bledsoe County when a tractor-trailer flipped over on a hairpin curve. Bledsoe County 911 dispatcher Patricia Edmons said the call came in about 11:50 a.m. CST Tuesday […]

Source: The New York Times, March 1, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Interior Departmentsaid Monday that it had approved the first new deepwater drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP explosion and spill last spring, a milestone after a period of intense uncertainty for industry and a wholesale remaking of the nation’s […]