Source: Risk and Insurance, February 22, 2011 By: Dan Reynolds, senior editor of Risk & Insurance Carriers look to “mine” coverage for smaller contractors and subcontractors working to uncork Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale natural gas reserves. The natural gas trapped in the shale layers running from below the Finger Lakes in New York to western Virginia […]

Source: BestWire Services, February 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Insurers could be facing a test of their pollution exclusions as the complex multidistrict litigation involving allegedly defective Chinese drywall moves forward. Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana rejected eight commercial general liability insurers’ contention that the […]

Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA), February 23, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owner of 20 Jiffy Lube stores in Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties has paid a $130,000 fine for violating environmental regulations, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced. Jiffy Lubes owned by M.C. LLC failed to mark and label tanks […]

Source: The Register-Guard, Eugene, OR February, 22, 2011 By: Christian Wihtol A Goshen storage facility says PCB-laced waste from a Eugene recycler forced it to shut down for months A waste oil storage facility in Goshen has been shut down for months because of contamination with toxic PCBs, and the facility’s operator is suing a […]

Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX), February 18, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A study of the air quality around natural gas drilling sites near Fort Worth schools found significantly high levels of the pollutant carbon disulfide, a committee of the Fort Worth League of Neighborhoods Association reported Thursday night. Among the committee’s recommendations are that wells […]

Source: Times Union (Albany, NY), February 18, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com A $150 million lawsuit against a natural gas drilling company in Chemung County is being billed as the first in modern memory against drillers for allegedly polluting ground water, according to a New York City law firm. The suit, filed Feb. 10 in state […]

Read here about a soon to be published paper regarding supposed pollution by the Arkansas Poultry Industry into the Oklahoma watershed.

Source: The Huntsville Item (TX), February 15, 2011 By: Matthew Jackson Sam Houston State University officials evacuated the campus’ Chemistry and Forensic Science building for more than three hours Tuesday morning after a teacher’s assistant spilled a small amount of bromine in a laboratory. The spill occurred just before 8 a.m. and required a Walker […]

Source: Lodi News-Sentinel (CA), February 12, 2011 By: Maggie Creamer The city of Lodi ended a long legal battle over groundwater contamination earlier this month. The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board unanimously approved $6.3 million in settlements from a federal lawsuit over groundwater pollution on Feb. 4. These settlements are with insurance companies […]

Read here about an energy company in Denver denies responsibility for water contamination in New York.

Source: The Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Three schools sharing a single Manhattan building joined the growing list of public schools where spot inspections have revealed elevated levels of polychlorinated byphenyls, or PCBs, leaking from aging light fixtures, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday. The latest inspection found that 12 of […]

Read here about how and why nine families in Elmira, NY sued a gas driller.