California lawmakers excoriated the state agency tasked with cleaning up the neighborhoods surrounding a shuttered battery recycling plant, blasting cost overruns and the excruciatingly slow pace of operations.
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Cleaning up the abandoned Exide battery recycling plant in Los Angeles County will cost California taxpayers nearly $400 million dollars in addition to other costs the state has already paid and the regulatory agency in charge is woefully behind schedule, the state auditor found.
Read moreA California appellate court has revived a lawsuit Wednesday from the city of Riverside who claim Black & Decker and several other companies contaminated the local drinking water with chemicals used to make explosive cartridges, flares and rocket fuel.
Read moreWhile advancing cleanup claims by a group of people who live on a Superfund site, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must approve of any restoration plans.
Read moreArconic, BASF and 29 other companies sued Cal-Tron Plating, Halliburton Energy Services and 7 other companies in federal court, claiming they poisoned groundwater under Whittier and Santa Fe Springs, California, at the Omega Superfund Site.
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Adding to its $1.4 billion already spent on cleaning up former mining sites near Butte, Montana, Atlantic Richfield Company agreed Tuesday to pay another $28 million for mining cleanup costs in Anaconda, Montana.
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The Trump administration completed the fewest cleanups of toxic Superfund sites last year than any administration since the program’s first years in the 1980s, figures released by the Environmental Protection Agency showed Wednesday.
Read moreThe 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.
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