SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers investigating the recent Bay Area oil spill and cleanup effort are suddenly facing a major difficulty in probing what happened. Company officials responsible for the initial response are refusing to be questioned at a hearing today. Imelda Ilerenas, a spokeswoman for Louisiana-based The...
SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers investigating the recent Bay Area oil spill and cleanup effort are suddenly facing a major difficulty in probing what happened. Company officials responsible for the initial response are refusing to be questioned at a hearing today. Imelda Ilerenas, a spokeswoman for Louisiana-based The...
SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers investigating the recent Bay Area oil spill and cleanup effort are suddenly facing a major difficulty in probing what happened. Company officials responsible for the initial response are refusing to be questioned at a hearing today. Imelda Ilerenas, a spokeswoman for Louisiana-based The...
SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers investigating the recent Bay Area oil spill and cleanup effort are suddenly facing a major difficulty in probing what happened. Company officials responsible for the initial response are refusing to be questioned at a hearing today. Imelda Ilerenas, a spokeswoman for Louisiana-based The...
SACRAMENTO -- State lawmakers investigating the recent Bay Area oil spill and cleanup effort are suddenly facing a major difficulty in probing what happened. Company officials responsible for the initial response are refusing to be questioned at a hearing today. Imelda Ilerenas, a spokeswoman for Louisiana-based The...
WASHINGTON -- The Senate agreed to a firm 2019 deadline for the Energy Department to clean up the Moab uranium mill tailings, in a Defense authorization bill passed late Monday. Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, had pushed for the firm deadline after Energy Department officials earlier this year said...
It would have been an absolute shame had Gov. Rendell's budget deal with the General Assembly required stealing money from parks and libraries to fund cleanups of hazardous waste sites.But it almost happened.Which raises this question for Rendell and state lawmakers: Would you really close the local library and padlock...
The Rendell administration late yesterday suggested an alternative to a controversial Senate proposal to pay for the cleanup of hazardous sites by taking $40 million a year from a state land-preservation fund.Criticism swiftly followed.Environmental advocates and legislative representatives contended the Rendell plan would only inflict the fiscal pain on other...
When most town officials hear "pollution," they usually don't think "asset."But under state legislation reportedly heralded as "unique" by federal officials, the Brownfields Reclamation Assistance Center is helping municipalities across West Virginia turn abandoned, mildly polluted grounds into sites of economic development."It's bringing together academia, state level government folks and...
Gov. Corzine's pick to be New Jersey's environmental chief said yesterday that she would review the state's controversial decision not to accept the donation of Petty's Island as a nature preserve. Lisa Jackson, a former state and federal environmental administrator, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that she would reconsider...
WASHINGTON -- House and Senate conferees abandoned giving makers of the gasoline additive MTBE liability protection against environmental lawsuits on Sunday, removing the major roadblock to enactment of broad energy legislation. Senate negotiators rejected a House proposal for an $11.4 billion MTBE cleanup fund that House Republicans had...
By Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 15--Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., took the first step Tuesday to stave off the end of the federal program that cleans up abandoned coal mines. Byrd won...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS ? As the leaders of the eight most industrialized countries gather at Sea Island on the coast of Georgia this week, about 150 miles inland at the Savannah River Nuclear Site much of America's most radioactive waste sits in huge tanks, several of which are leaking. Some...
CHICAGO, Jan. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Though conservation organizations welcome an expected announcement tomorrow by U.S. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt of increased funding for toxic sediment cleanup under the 2002 Great Lakes Legacy Act, they call it a "drop in the bucket" compared to what's actually needed. The conservation community...
Byline: Valerie Denney Communications CHICAGO, Jan. 28 AScribe Newswire -- Though conservation organizations welcome an expected announcement tomorrow by U.S. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt of increased funding for toxic sediment cleanup under the 2002 Great Lakes Legacy Act, they call it a "drop ...
By Lloyd Dunkelberger, The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 16--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--Senate President Jim King said Wednesday that lawmakers may consider legislation to revive a phosphate cleanup fund during next week's special session. Gov. Jeb Bush has...
By Kevin Bouffard, The Ledger, Lakeland, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 23--LAKELAND, Fla.--With budget crunching and the still unresolved issue of medical malpractice litigation reform dominating its agenda, a proposal to raise phosphate taxes didn't make the Florida Legislature's A-list...
By Angela Couloumbis, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 15--TRENTON, N.J.--He's been spotted in Camden, scouting out properties ripe for redevelopment. He's been in Jersey City, where a federal judge appointed him to oversee cleanup of contaminated soil....
Industrial manufacturing, particularly in petroleum and chemical industries, has a history associated with hazardous waste disposal practices leading to highly contaminated sites. The evolution of the U.S. Superfund policy addressing the cleanup of these sites is an opportunity to examine principles upon which Superfund was founded and subsequent myths that...
WASHINGTON, May 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Two national drinking water associations announced their opposition to a couple of hotly contested provisions in House and Senate energy legislation at a press conference today. The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies and the American Water Works Association, which together represent water systems...
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