The number of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects accumulated under the Trump administration amount to the largest backlog in about 15 years, according to figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays.
Read moreNCR Corp. reached a $245 million settlement Wednesday of federal claims by the United States and Michigan over the cleanup of the Allied Paper/Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Superfund Site.
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The Supreme Court appeared concerned Tuesday about the practical consequences of siding with a group of Montana landowners who live on land contaminated by arsenic and lead and want a more aggressive cleanup of the Superfund site than what has been approved.
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At least 60% of U.S. Superfund sites are in areas vulnerable to flooding or other disasters wrought by climate change, and the Trump administration’s reluctance to acknowledge global warming is deterring efforts to safeguard them, a congressional watchdog agency says.
Read moreThe Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a case that would deem the owner of a Superfund site a responsible party for pollution damages and require it to fork out funding for toxic cleanups beyond what is mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Read morePeople living near a Cold War-era rocket fuel testing site and nuclear facility in Southern California want an independent study of toxins in the area even as the federal government released a report Tuesday detailing how it will clean up the site.
Read moreThe University of California at Davis will pay $14 million toward cleaning up the Laboratory for Energy-related Health Research/Old Campus Landfill Superfund site in Davis, in an agreement with the U.S. EPA and California.
Read moreBy dawn on Saturday, Sept. 15, a dozen cars were parked at the newly opened Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge and at least as many hikers wandered down trails surrounding the site of a former-nuclear weapons factory near Arvada, Colorado.
Read moreUncle Sam must cover some of Exxon Mobil’s cleanup costs for jet fuel and gasoline produced for World War II and the Korean War, a federal judge ruled, rejecting the government’s contention that the oil giant’s claims are time-barred.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday refused to block public access to a former nuclear facility that has been turned into a wildlife refuge.
Read moreA federal judge heard testimony Tuesday from Colorado groups concerned about plutonium contamination on a former nuclear facility that has been turned into a wildlife refuge.
Read moreA lawyer tapped to lead a task force at the Environmental Protection Agency overseeing cleanups at the nation’s most polluted places worked until recently for a top chemical and plastics manufacturer with a troubled legacy of creating some of those toxic sites.
Read moreTwo companies reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remove cancer-causing pollutants from a Houston riverbank, a deal spurred by damage Hurricane Harvey did to caps containing the toxins.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency proposed a $13.5 million plan Friday to clean up contaminated groundwater in the eastern area of the Old Roosevelt Field, a Superfund site in Garden City, New York.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it has placed four sites on the Superfund national priorities list, including a creosote-contaminated site near DeRidder, Louisiana.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency says an internal task force appointed to revamp how the nation’s most polluted sites are cleaned up generated no record of its deliberations.
Read moreEvery time it rains in Pascagoula, Mississippi, something bad happens to the water in Bayou Casotte: the rain helps flush 7 million gallons of contaminated wastewater into the bay on the Pascagoula River.
Read moreA Chicago property owner says People’s Gas “secretly” made a deal with the EPA to include his property in a superfund program covering former gas manufacturing sites in Chicago, costing him millions because the land cannot be sold for development.
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The Environmental Protection Agency will make two companies pay $115 million to remove toxic waste from a riverbank in Houston submerged under a makeshift cap that was damaged by flooding from Hurricane Harvey.
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