Source: Dow Jones News Service, March 2, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) said some of its oil-and- gas-drilling operations in Pennsylvania and West Virginia are being investigated by environmental regulators. In Pennsylvania, the state Department of Environmental Protection is looking into the possible contamination of groundwater and residential water wells with methane, […]

Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), March 1, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Arch Coal Inc., the nation’s second-largest coal producer, will pay a $4 million penalty to settle claims that it violated federal water-quality standards in three eastern states. The agreement was announced Tuesday morning by the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency. Under the […]

Source: The New York Times, February 27, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The American landscape is dotted with hundreds of thousands of new wells and drilling rigs, as the country scrambles to tap into this century’s gold rush — for natural gas. The gas has always been there, of course, trapped deep underground in countless tiny […]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), February 26, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Just a week after repealing a policy requiring an environmental assessment of Marcellus Shale gas well permit proposals in state parks, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has announced it is suspending and reconsidering key air pollution controls governing the drilling industry. The latest policy […]

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

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

Source: http://www.txattorneys.com, December 18, 2009 By: Juan A. Lozano, Houston Chronicle A federal jury Friday awarded more than $100 million to 10 workers who claimed they were injured in 2007 when a toxic substance was released at BP PLC’s Texas City plant. The jurors in Galveston, about 50 miles southeast of Houston, gave each contract […]

Read here about a Pennsylvania company that was fined for air quality violations.

Read here about a driller that will pay some Pennsylvania residents over tainted water.

Publication Date 11/22/2010 Source: BestWire Services Energy and environmental insurers are eagerly eyeing an emerging energy boom: the development of the Marcellus shale natural gas area. “It’s a major, major find that I think will impact the energy market not only locally, but globally,” said Chris Moscardelli, director of Societe Generale’s energy project finance group. […]

Acknowledgement to Great American A financial institution was preparing a foreclosed site for re-sale. While the facility was unoccupied thieves broke into the structure in an attempt to steal wiring and copper piping. In the process the thieves damaged a transformer releasing PCB containing oil to the floor. The financial institution was responsible for the […]

Acknowledgement to XL Environmental THE CLAIM An XL-insured coal-fired power plant stored baghouse dusts containing heavy metals in an uncovered dumpster behind the facility. Whenever it rained, storm water mixed with the dust, forming a slurry, which eventually migrated off-site. Contamination to an adjoining, third-party property was determined to have occurred over the course of […]