Source: http://www.hrrvlaw.com, Legal Insights, Spring 2011 By: Tara C. Fappiano Deep within the earth is a layer of sedimentary rock that is the gas-rich Marcellus Shale, a substantial portion of which lies in the Southern Tier, Twin Tiers and Catskills region of New York State. Hydro-fracking, a type of hydraulic drilling, offers opportunities for extracting […]

Source: http://www.telegram.com, March 26, 2011 By: Martin Luttrell The owner of the Bancroft Commons apartment building downtown pleaded guilty in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston yesterday to the improper removal and disposal of asbestos and for failing to provide pay records and evading unemployment insurance payments. Worcester Commons LLC and JM Realty Management Inc., real estate […]

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: 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 […]

Source: Salem News (MA), March 22, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The owners of an unlicensed Lynnfield asbestos removal business and an employee have been indicted on charges of violating state environmental and wage laws, including while working on projects in Beverly and Marblehead. The business, which calls itself AEI Environmental LLC, is based out of […]

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: 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,” […]

Source: http://www.newsinferno.com, March 15, 2011 Another bed bug lawsuit is making headlines, this time in Maryland. Sam Alfrey, the plaintiff in a small claims case against the owner of the Travelers Hotel LLC brought a bottle of dead bed bugs to court in a lawsuit seeking $2,480 for the rent he has paid since moving […]

Source: http://washingtonexaminer.com, March 9, 2011 By: Kytja Weir Asbestos has been found during renovations of Metro’s Farragut North and Union Station stops, The Washington Examiner has learned. Crews have been quietly working during off-hours to remove the cancer-causing flame retardant since last week, according to the transit agency. The remediation work is expected to last […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 11, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Two municipal sewage treatment facilities that together discharge 150,000 gallons a day of Marcellus Shale wastewater into the Monongahela River watershed don’t have federal permits for such pollution discharges and should, according to two environmental organizations that say they will sue the facilities in federal court. […]