Source: Lawyers USA, March 14, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Virginia legislature has passed a pair of measures aimed at preventing more homeowners from the dangers of tainted Chinese drywall. Senate Bill 1294 bars the sale of Chinese drywall, although not the sale of a home with Chinese drywall installed. It awaits the governor’s signature, […]

Source: Daily Star, The (Oneonta, NY), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Like Middlefield, Springfield and Otsego, the town of Cherry Valley is moving to ban drilling and hydraulic fracturing for natural gas within its borders. The town’s zoning commission will hold a public hearing Monday on a draft land-use law that prohibits new drilling […]

Source: Belleville News-Democrat, IL, March 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Seven years after water districts filed suit against the makers of a farm herbicide, the class-action lawsuit is still mired in legal machinations in Madison County. The Holiday Shores Sanitary District was one of 13 public water districts to file suit against Syngenta, maker of […]

Read here about an Arizona school district that had to pay over $850K to cleanup pesticide.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 18, 2011 State prosecutors charged a Greene County man Thursday with illegally dumping millions of gallons of Marcellus Shale wastewater, sewer sludge and greasy restaurant slop in holes, mine shafts and waterways in a six-county region from 2003 to 2009. “He was pouring the stuff in any hole he could find,” […]

Read here about this California county that was fined for environmental violations during highway construction.

Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH), March 14, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The drilling boom that has created hundreds of natural-gas wells in Pennsylvania and West Virginia could shoot new pipelines across Ohio. State officials are weighing proposals for three pipelines that would help move ethane, propane and other liquefied natural-gas products to refineries in Ontario and […]

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 […]

Read here about the EPA asking Pennsylvania to increase their monitoring of gas well waste.

Source: San Jose Mercury News, March 3, 2011 Posted on: http://enr.construction.com By: Steve Johnson A PG&E inspector has expressed concerns to federal investigators about the methods used in 2008 to install a sewer line just inches below the natural gas line that erupted in San Bruno on Sept. 9, according to documents made public this […]

Source: New York Times Online, March 3, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Congressional Democrats are demanding answers from the Environmental Protection Agency about the safety of hydraulic fracturing, a form of natural gas drilling also known as fracking, after revelations that wastewater from such drilling, which contains radioactive material, is regularly dumped into rivers and streams […]

Source: Times-Tribune (Scranton, PA), March 2, 1011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com U.S. Sen. Bob Casey joined a chorus of lawmakers on Tuesday seeking additional testing of public water supplies following a report that the wastewater produced from Marcellus Shale gas wells in Pennsylvania contains higher levels of radioactive materials than was previously disclosed. An article published […]