Toxic Cleanup
The 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.
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Wildlife Refuge Opens on Colorado Superfund Site, Despite Lawsuit
By 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 moreFeds Must Help Exxon Pay for Wartime Pollution
Uncle 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 moreJudge Won’t Block Opening of Nuclear Site Turned Refuge
A federal judge on Thursday refused to block public access to a former nuclear facility that has been turned into a wildlife refuge.
Read morePublic Trails at Former Colorado Nuclear Site Debated
A 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 moreEx-Chemical Industry Lawyer to Lead Superfund Task Force
A 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 moreDeal Reached to Clean Up Hurricane-Damaged Superfund Site
Two 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.
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The 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 moreEPA Puts Four Sites on Superfund List
The 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 moreEPA Says Superfund Task Force Left Behind Little Paper Trail
The 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 moreEPA Promises to Ramp Up Superfund Cleanups
Every 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 moreWould-Be Chicago Developer Peeved at ‘Secret’ Deal Between People’s Gas & EPA
A 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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$115 Million Toxic Waste Cleanup Ordered in Houston
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.
Read moreEnvironmental Corruption & Bribery Alleged at Alabama Coal Site
Federal prosecutors this week indicted two attorneys and a coal company executive, accusing them of bribing an Alabama lawmaker to try to duck the expense of cleaning up a contaminated site in Birmingham.
Read moreNew Jersey Superfund
A class of Gibbsboro, New Jersey, residents brought a federal complaint against the Sherwin-Williams Co. to have it clean up a Superfund site that is sickening people with cancer and various diseases.
Read moreSettlement Reached Over Pollution at Minnesota Superfund Site
Minnesota, Wisconsin and the federal government reached a deal Thursday for three companies to pay more than $8 million for natural resource damages at a Superfund site in Minnesota.
Read moreRadioactive Waste Still Flooding Columbia River, EPA Says
Groundwater contaminated with radioactive waste from the decommissioned Hanford nuclear facility in Washington state is still “flowing freely” into the Columbia River, a program manager with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said at a meeting of the Hanford Advisory Board.
Read moreHudson River Cleanup Review Divides NY and Feds
Overshadowed by America’s exit from the Paris climate accord, U.S. regulators released a hotly disputed report Thursday on efforts to clean up the Hudson River after three decades of contamination by General Electric.
Read moreTrump EPA Chief to Prioritize Toxic Sites’ Cleanup
As the head of the Environmental Protection Agency rolls back regulations aimed at preventing future pollution, he also is pledging to focus on cleaning up decades-old contamination.
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