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 […]

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Source: http://www.strausnews.com, May 27, 2011 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday released a plan to remove contaminated soil from the site of former lagoons at the Nepera Chemical Company Superfund site in Hamptonburgh. The 29.3-acre site is a former industrial waste disposal facility. Between 1953 and 1967, lagoons at the site received approximately 50,000 […]

Source: http://articles.boston.com, May 30, 2011 A Maine quarry owner and contractor has signed an agreement with the city of Augusta acknowledging a subcontractor failed to notify neighbors of two quarry blasts that sent dust into local neighborhoods. Contractor Steve McGee agreed to pay $3,500 through subcontractor Maine Drilling and Blasting, which wrote the check. McGee […]

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: Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC), May 24, 1011 Posted on: http://fpn.advisen.com Electronic components maker AVX Corp. has purchased the Myrtle Beach property that it contaminated with a suspected carcinogen called trichloroethylene, according to Horry County property records. AVX paid nearly $4.6 million for the approximately 21.5-acre parcel previously owned by Horry Land Co., according to a […]

Source:  http://www.wlfi.com, May 24, 2011 By: Tiffanie Dismore Attorneys are calling a Kraft Global Foods settlement one of the first successful environmental lawsuits of its kind. Those involved in the class action lawsuit against a multi-billion dollar Kraft are comparing it to a biblical story. “It was back and forth negotiations like David and Goliath,” said […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), May 24, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The expansion of West Virginia’s natural gas industry could open up new battlefronts in the courtroom over the protection of property rights, health and the environment. Some of the legal uncertainty may result from the failure so far of state lawmakers to settle questions […]

Source: Post & Courier (Charleston, SC), May 21, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Mark Teseniar was skeptical when his telephone rang in 2007. On the line were his tenants who had just moved into a Johns Island condominium that he and his wife, Nan, own at Twelve Oaks at Fenwick, off Maybank Highway. “They complained pretty […]

Source: Marin Independent Journal (CA), May 16, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com More than three years after a treatment plant spilled millions of gallons of sewage into Richardson Bay, a collection agency that feeds into the plant wants to hold the city of Mill Valley — the plant’s contract operator — legally and financially responsible. An […]

Read here about an egg producer recently fined nearly $2 million by the EPA.