Source: http://www.mondaq.com, October 17, 2014 By: Michael H. Sampson, Courtney C. T. Horrigan, John N. Ellison, Kevin B. Dreher and David E. Weiss, Reed Smith Ebola has become a worldwide crisis. It has ravaged Liberia and other West African countries. It has been diagnosed in Europe. And, cases are now being reported in the United […]

Source: http://www.advisenrisknetwork.com, October 15, 2014 By: Chad Hemenway We’ve wondered about the insurance implications of the Ebola virus as its entrance into the US and other countries has stoked concern and prompted leaders at the highest levels to think of, and plan to mitigate, worst-case scenarios. The UN Security Council called the Ebola virus “a […]

Source: http://www.usatoday.com, October 9, 2014 By: Todd Unger Hazardous-cleanup companies get a lot of odd requests, but nothing prepared the crew at CG Environmental for this past week. A 15-person team spent the weekend decontaminating the Dallas apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, had stayed since coming Sept. 20 to the United States […]

Source: Daily Journal of Commerce, October 14,2014 A Louisiana waste disposal site says it won’t accept the ashes generated when a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings from his apartment were incinerated and a judge has signed an order temporarily blocking the disposal in the state. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order. Caldwell’s office said […]

Source: Reuters, October 7, 2014 Posted on: http://news.yahoo.com Pennsylvania environmental regulators on Tuesday sought a record $4.5 million penalty from EQT Corp, a natural gas producer, for damage caused by the release of fracking fluids from a gas drilling site in the Marcellus region. The production of shale gas using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, technology […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 29, 2014 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The state Department of Environmental Protection might have used incomplete and inaccurate test information to decide whether chemicals leaking from a Marcellus Shale wastewater impoundment and a drill cuttings pit contaminated a water well and springs in Washington County. The disclosures came last week during sworn […]

Source: http://enews.blazeletter.com A Dallas jury recently awarded $2.9 million dollars to a family that claimed serious health injuries related to Aruba Petroleum’s nearby oil and gas operations.  Although the wells had been hydraulically fractured, the case concerned exposure to air pollutants associated with oil and gas activities not hydraulic fracturing fluids.  Nonetheless, the verdict left […]

Read here for highlights of Marcellus Shale news from 2013.

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 15, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com When David Dewberry landed in Pennsylvania in 2010, the veteran of the migratory worldwide oil-and-gas workforce said he required more than a month to drill a typical Marcellus Shale natural gas well. On Dec. 4, a crew under Dewberry’s direction dug into the mountaintop of […]

Read here about a Pennsylvania city where the pace of gas drilling is slowing.

Source: http://www.naylornetwork.com By: Marc Goldman, Director of Strategy, The Blue Book Building and Construction Network Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the hottest topic in the construction industry and for good reason. Architects use BIM tools and process to deliver better designs; engineers use BIM to ensure designs meet codes and performance benchmarks. General contractors are […]

Source: Guardian Web, October 3, 2013 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Scientists have for the first time shown dangerous levels of radioactivity and salinity at a shale gas waste disposal site that could contaminate drinking water. If the UK follows in the steps of the US “shale gas revolution”, it should impose regulations to stop such radioactive […]