Source: http://www.omaha.com, April 22, 2016 By: Emily Nitcher Bill Vance’s house slippers were wet. It was the 74-year-old Bellevue man’s first indication, on Feb. 29, that something was wrong in the basement of his home on Hancock Street. Next came the smell. Two to three inches of murky brown water, including some human waste, had […]

Source: http://www.wisbar.org, March 17, 2015 By: Joe Forward An insurer that covered a contractor’s liability for “pollution” damages must cover a share of defense costs and settlement amounts from a natural gas explosion that caused property damage and bodily injury, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled. In 2008, Dorner Inc. was performing road construction in Oconomowoc, which included […]

Source: StarTribune, Minneapolis, April 18, 2013 By: Alejandra Matos Two years after a gas explosion in south Minneapolis, officials from the city and CenterPoint still dispute who is responsible for blast. The dispute between Minneapolis and CenterPoint Energy over who was at fault for a gas explosion near a south Minneapolis Cub Foods in 2011 […]

Source: Huffington Post, San Francisco, CA, April 23, 2012 By: Aaron Sankin An internal memo recently handed over by PG&E to state regulators shows that the company had known about weld failures on the pipeline running underneath San Bruno for over twenty years before it exploded into a destructive fireball in 2010. In 1988, PG&E […]

Source: Rockhill Environmental/NECC Newsletter A utility contractor was subject to clean-up costs after vandals opened an on-site mobile refueling tank causing diesel fuel to be released onto virgin soil.

Source: Rockhill Environmental/NECC Newsletter A utility contractor left an unfinished concrete vault open over the weekend. Heavy rains washed away sediment controls allowing sand and silt to be released from the unfinished vault into the adjacent bay. The contractor was subsequently fined by a regulatory agency for natural resource damage resulting from the release of sediments […]

Source: http://tristatehomepage.com By: Drew Gardner Sewer testing is causing some confusion in Evansville. The Water and Sewer Utility Department is performing smoke testing to look for leaks in the sanitary sewer system. Its all apart of the city’s lawsuit settlement with the EPA. At first glance the smoke may look like a sign of trouble, […]

Source: http://www.kentucky.com, April 29, 2011 By: Dori Hjalmarson Four coal companies have settled a lawsuit by 91 residents along Quicksand Creek in Breathitt County who claimed poor reclamation of surface mines exacerbated flooding after heavy rains in May 2009. The terms of the settlement are confidential, said the plaintiffs’ attorney Ned Pillersdorf, but others called […]

Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH), March 14, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The drilling boom that has created hundreds of natural-gas wells in Pennsylvania and West Virginia could shoot new pipelines across Ohio. State officials are weighing proposals for three pipelines that would help move ethane, propane and other liquefied natural-gas products to refineries in Ontario and […]

Source: San Jose Mercury News, March 3, 2011 Posted on: http://enr.construction.com By: Steve Johnson A PG&E inspector has expressed concerns to federal investigators about the methods used in 2008 to install a sewer line just inches below the natural gas line that erupted in San Bruno on Sept. 9, according to documents made public this […]

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Source: ENR By Pam Hunter The Environmental Protection Agency on Nov. 9 issued a subpoena to oil-field services contractor Halliburton for failing to provide information the agency needs to complete its congressionally mandated study on hydraulic fracturing, or “hydrofracking.” Eight other hydrofracking firms that received voluntary information requests in September agreed to submit “timely and […]