The signs are weathered and rusting, and their warning is outdated. "Caution," they read. "Waste containment site." Yet no danger lurks beyond the signs and the forbidding barbed wire-topped, chain-link fence to which they're affixed -- aside from the occasional skinned knee or elbow of a...
Eight years into the cleanup of the lower Fox River, tons of toxins have been removed, and proponents of clean water see light at the end of the culvert. "We want what's best for the river, and from everything I've been involved with in the process, both the EPA and...
More than 15 years after being named to the nation's Superfund list, the Beede Waste Oil site has taken a big step closer to cleanup now that the last responsible party has agreed to sign the cleanup agreement. Brodie Ski Mountain Area Inc. was the only party that would not...
CHURCH ROCK, N.M. -- This community has become a poster child on the Navajo Nation, but residents don't brag about it. Among the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines on the vast reservation the size of West Virginia, the Northeast Church Rock Mine here tops the list as...
In a critical report, a federal inspector general faults the Environmental Protection Agency and New Jersey for delaying cleanups of sites that have sat on the Superfund list for more than 20 years. The report by the EPA's inspector general chided both the EPA and the state Department of Environmental...
CHICAGO -- Federal officials on Wednesday ordered Dow Chemical to clean up high levels of dioxin recently discovered in the homes and yards of a Saginaw, Mich., neighborhood downstream from the company's world headquarters. Preliminary results from tests conducted in March by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found...
WEST MILLCREEK -- A potential hazardous wasteland is keeping developers at bay along a stretch of State Street. The area seems to have everything going for it. Two TRAX stations are just a short walk away, and new developments are popping up left and right. But...
HELENA, Mont. -- W.R. Grace & Co. has agreed to reimburse the federal government $250 million for the investigation and cleanup of asbestos contamination blamed for sickening hundreds of people, some fatally, in the northwestern Montana town of Libby. Approval of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge is necessary...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Don de Blasio, +1-312-886-4360, deblasio.don@epa.gov, or Phillippa Cannon, +1-312-353-6218, cannon.phillippa@epa.gov, or Mick Hans, +1-312-353-5050, hans.mick@epa.gov, all of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency CHICAGO,March 17/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 today announced that 2008 Kalamazoo River environmental cleanup work near the Plainwell Impoundment is underway....
Earlier this year there were more than 100 unresolved cases of underground storage tanks, most that contained gasoline, that have leaked just in Salt Lake City. Data compiled by the Utah Department of Environmental Quality showed there were 35 open cases in Ogden, 25 in St. George and 16 in...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- W.R. Grace, a global supplier of specialty chemicals, has agreed to pay $250 million, the highest sum in the history of the Superfund program, to reimburse the federal government for...
House Democrats began laying the groundwork for reauthorizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's EPA brownfields program by holding a hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Matt Zone, council member from Cleveland, presented the local government perspective on...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007, or TDD, +1-202-514-1888; or Environmental Protection Agency, +1-617-918-1017 WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- Boston and Maine Corp., BNZ Materials Inc., and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority MBTA, have agreed to perform environmental cleanup work expected...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $150,000 to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission for its State Environmental Response Program. Under this cooperative agreement with EPA Region 6, OCC staff will assist in identifying contamination, plan for cleanup if contaminants are found, and in some limited cases, assist in...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2007 WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- The American International Specialty Lines Insurance Company, Inc. AISLIC, has agreed to pay $42.5 million to clean up contamination at four industrial facilities in a suit in which the Department...
Rebecca Katers is going to try very hard not to let her discouragement show, but she's tired, to say the very least. With the PCB dredging efforts having ceased on Little Lake Butte Des Morts and the Fox River for the season, the Environmental Protection Agency and state...
Active Utah mines with toxic tailings could be affected by a lawsuit announced by the activist group Earthjustice. The group filed a legal notice with a federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, saying it intends to sue in 60 days to force the Environmental Protection Agency to...
WASHINGTON -- An environmental group announced plans Monday to sue the federal government over billions in cleanup costs at polluted mine sites in the West and around the country. Earthjustice said it was filing a notice to sue the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of four conservation groups...
ENVIRONMENTLeadville, CO, home to Climax molybdenum mine and the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, will not be removed from the list of the nation's most polluted sites until local officials enact permanent land-use restrictions and other safeguards to prevent exposure to heavy metals, according to a new federal...
What is good for the environment is good for communities. And what is good for communities is good for real estate. This dynamic is thriving in the booming trend of cleaning up brownfield sites-properties deemed by the federal government as toxic or potentially toxic, and requiring environmental remediation. Once...
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