Source: http://www.recordonline.com, February 5, 2011 By: Michael Randall The town is going to federal court to force a company to clean up ground water contamination allegedly from a manufacturing plant the firm sold 20 years ago. The parties have a court date Feb. 17. The alleged contamination is in Little Falls Park in the Ducktown […]

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Publication Date 01/11/2011 Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Doctors will monitor the health of the children who inhaled mercury vapors in their Gloucester County day-care center, a judge ruled Tuesday. New Jersey Superior Court Judge James E. Rafferty ordered the state, county and Franklin Township, as well as the owners of Kiddie Kollege, […]

Publication Date 05/18/2010 Source: Valley News-Dispatch (Tarentum, PA) Allegheny Ludlum Corp. has reached a settlement with federal and county agencies regarding alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its Natrona melt shop. The agreement announced Monday by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Justice calls for Ludlum, a subsidiary of Allegheny Technologies […]

Publication Date 06/16/2010 Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (PA) A Montgomery County beef processing plant that officials said released fish-killing pollutants into the Skippack Creek will pay $2 million in penalties, federal officials announced Wednesday. The fines were levied after the firm, Moyer Packing Co. in Franconia Township, dumped pollutants into the creek. Skippack Creek is a tributary […]

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Publication Date 06/17/2010 Source: Philadelphia Daily News (PA) A beef-processing plant reached a settlement yesterday with the U.S. Attorney’s Office over its six-year history of pollution violations. JBS Souderton violated the Clean Water Act and the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law by releasing animal waste, E. coli, ammonia, oil and grease into Skippack Creek in Montgomery County, […]

Publication Date 11/21/2010 Source: Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA) A former Monticello circuit boards manufacturer pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Thursday for storing toxic waste and dumping the waste into Kitty Creek. Gene Riddle, 74, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of violation of the Clean Water Act, and also pleaded guilty on behalf of […]

Acknowledgement to Great American An unknown party illegally placed a container of hazardous liquid waste into a dumpster at a small manufacturing facility. The container leaked and contaminated the contents of the load which in turn contaminated the waste on the tipping floor of the transfer station. Clean-up costs and legal fees exceeded $150,000.

Source: http://envfpn.advisen.com/#top DENVER — La Plata County is scheduled to head to trial in October in its lawsuit against a rifle manufacturer over groundwater pollution at the jail. The trial is set to start Oct. 10 in federal court in Denver. The county wants Brown Group Retail Inc. to pay costs of cleaning up groundwater […]

Acknowledgement to XL Environmental THE CLAIM An XL insured, a battery manufacturing plant, closed its operations after operating at a property for 50 years. Buildings on the insured’s site were demolished and lead soil remediation was completed. Subsequently, while preparing their property for sale, an adjacent property owner discovered lead contamination. The highest soil concentrations […]