Source: Las Cruces Sun-News, March 27, 2011 By: Diana M. Alba The National Guard’s use of a gun-cleaning chemical for more than four decades at a former armory site off North Solano Drive is to blame for most groundwater pollution at a federally designated cleanup site, a city-county study found. And, officials with the city […]

Source: Daily Freeman, Kingston, NY, March 23, 2011 Contractors working on refurbishing the sidewalk canopies in the city’s Uptown business district have found asbestos that will have to be removed, Mayor James Sottile said on Tuesday. Sottile said the amount of asbestos is unknown and that a deeper examination will be needed. The mayor said […]

Source: http://www.itemlive.com A Lynnfield asbestos removal company, its owners and an employee have been indicted for the improper removal and disposal of asbestos for work performed on numerous public and private buildings in the city of Lynn, Beverly and Marblehead, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced in a press release. AEI Environmental, LLC (AEI), David Harder, […]

Source: http://www.oregonlive.com, March 23, 2011 The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division has fined a Newport retailer for asbestos violations. OSHA issued three citations, totaling $300 in fines, to the Dollar Tree Store for failure to identify the asbestos, repair or remove it and for failing to provide employees with an awareness training course. The […]

Source: Charleston Daily Mail (WV), March 24, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Three environmental groups sued coal operator ICG Eastern in federal court Wednesday over a Webster County surface mine they say has been discharging toxic selenium into streams for years. The Sierra Club, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy filed […]

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: Philadelphia Inquirer , March 23, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The level of salty compounds in the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh spiked above acceptable limits in late 2008 — not a health risk, according to federal and state regulators, but drinking water drawn from the river tasted like mud. Environmentalists blamed the contamination on […]

Read here about a company sued by three environmental groups over selenim pollution from a West Virginia mine.

Source: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A plaintiff in a 10-year-old lawsuit in which hundreds of Hazleton residents claimed they were sickened or had their property damaged in a gasoline spill settled his case Monday. Attorneys for ExxonMobil and plaintiff Robert J. Stevens were in Luzerne County Court on Monday […]

Read here about a Pennsylvania company that is being held liable for polluting the Conemaugh River.

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 […]