New 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.
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Settlement 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.
Read moreNY AG Lowers Boom on Long Island Dumping Legacy
Gathering reporters at a Long Island park sullied in an asbestos-dumping scandal, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman unveiled federal charges Thursday against the dozens he said left tens of thousands of tons of deadly debris there in 2014.
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Major Victory for New Orleans’ 9th Ward in Fourth Circuit
Thousands of people in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward got some welcome news when the Fourth Circuit affirmed they deserve compensation for property devaluation and emotional distress for living and working for years atop a landfill Superfund site.
Read moreToxic Cleanup Fight Hits Mont. High Court
Does a federal law intended to help people clean up polluted areas stop those same people from using state laws to take the cleanup a step or two further? That’s what the Montana Supreme Court will decide after hearing oral arguments Friday in a fight over the cleanup of two communities tainted by arsenic.
Read moreNewburgh Hauled Into Court Over Toxic Water
Unaware before this summer that they have been bathing in, drinking and cooking with water polluted by a nearby airbase, dozens of Newburgh, New York, residents are fighting to file a late notice of claim.
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EPA Sounds Last Call on Asbestos Cleanup Effort
Property owners in Libby, Montana, have until the end of this month to have their homes or businesses cleaned of dangerous asbestos particles left over from decades of mining in this small northwest Montana town.
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Yakama Sue Polluters for Cleanup Costs
The Yakama Confederated Tribes and Nation sued dozens of major corporations for dumping toxic chemicals into the Willamette River for years, polluting fishing grounds the Yakama have used “since time immemorial.”
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Polymer manufacturer Tate and Lyle Ingredients Americas seeks a defense and indemnity from two dozen insurers in connection to the federal remediation of the lower 17 miles of the Passaic River, part of the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site in New Jersey.
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US, Rhode Island Get $40M Toward Pollution Clean-Up
Nearly 100 entities facing liability for pollution at a Rhode Island Superfund site reached a $40 million settlement with federal and state authorities.
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