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Vapor Intrusion -- EPA Offers Guidance For Comment, But Now More Issues Than Ever

After being taken to task by states and its own Inspector General for lack of final guidance on Vapor Intrusion, EPA has just released draft guidance documents for hazardous substances and petroleum products for comment. The...more

5/8/2013 - Air Pollution CERCLA EPA Hazardous Substances OSHA

Massachusetts Packaging Plant Pays Nearly $485K Penalty For Environmental Violations

A packaging company in Dudley, MA has agreed to pay $484,900 in penalties to settle EPA claims that the company violated numerous federal and state regulations. The violations occurred at the company’s liquid and aerosol...more

4/17/2013 - Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Environmental Liability EPA EPCRA Hazardous Substances Manufacturing Facilities

Maine DEP Publishes Revised Remedial Action Guidelines On Hazardous Substances For Comment

The Remedial Action Guidelines (RAGs) are useful – if conservative – default cleanup guidelines used by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). DEP proposed changes in 2012, and has just proposed changes...more

3/18/2013 - Contamination Department of Environmental Protection Hazardous Substances Remedial Action Guidelines Voluntary Response Action Program

DEP Hazmat Specialist Pleads Guilty To Spill Records Destruction – Implications For Those Affected By Spills

Former HazMat Specialist Jon P. Andrews, assigned to the Augusta Region of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, has pleaded guilty to destroying three years of spill records on his final day on the job. The...more

3/8/2013 - Department of Environmental Protection Destruction of Evidence Public Records

Should Tenants Worry About Environmental Liabilities For Their Leased Property?

By 2013, most property owners have heard of the advantages of performing environmental due diligence and conducting “All Appropriate Inquiry” by obtaining an Environmental Site Assessment before purchase. Doing so is key to...more

1/23/2013 - Bona Fide Purchaser Commercial Leases Contaminated Properties Environmental Site Assessment EPA Landlords Superfund Tenants

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