The Trump administration appeared to execute an about-face on the use of Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump facility after the president tweeted reassurance to Nevadans that he would drop a proposal to resurrect the site.
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Ten U.S. oil refineries were in late 2019 spewing levels of the cancer-causing pollutant benzene above a regulatory limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency, an environmental group said in a report released Thursday.
Read moreA federal class action claims Kerr McGee Chemical Corp., Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Occidental Petroleum Corp., BNSF Railway Co. and International Paper Co. dumped toxic chemicals from creosote wood treatment processes for years across multiple states.
Read moreCoeur Rochester sued the U.S. Department of Energy in federal court, claiming its long-delayed yet still hasty and sloppy regulations on mercury storage and disposal are irrational and illegal.
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One of the companies responsible for polluting an 80-mile stretch of river and floodplains in southwestern Michigan with toxic chemicals will pay at least $245.2 million to advance a cleanup effort that began more than 20 years ago, federal officials said Wednesday.
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As a plan to ship highly radioactive waste from the nation’s nuclear power plants to a remote corner of the West Texas desert slogs its way through government bureaucracy, environmental groups’ hopes of having a say in the matter appear to be vanishing.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the enforcement of a judgment of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal Court of Appeals, which ruled that FMC Corporation – a chemical manufacturer – must pay an annual use permit fee for storing “radioactive, carcinogenic, and poisonous” waste within the Fort Hall Reservation.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency cannot ignore “legacy uses” of chemicals when evaluating their impact on public health, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday while upholding most new rules for reviewing toxic substances.
Read moreThe Justice Department said Friday that Dow Chemical Company has agreed to pay $77 million to restore wildlife habitats damaged by toxic chemicals released from its facility in central Michigan.
Read moreA relatively quiet proceeding underway at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission could open a new chapter in a years-long debate about whether Texas should help solve the nation’s nuclear waste problem.
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Italian officials warned Wednesday Rome’s burgeoning garbage crisis constituted a health risk, as rat control services worked overtime and the waste-collection company board resigned.
Read moreFour counties sued California Resources Corp. in Ventura County Court, claiming it violated environmental and hazardous waste-disposal rules after acquiring gas and oil assets and liabilities from Occidental Petroleum.
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Threatening to derail the project, an environmental analysis found arsenic contamination more than double the legal limit at the site of David Beckham’s proposed $1 billion Major League Soccer complex in Miami.
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New Mexico’s Environment Department and attorney general filed an injunction asking that the U.S. Air Force be compelled to quickly clean up contamination from toxic firefighting foam that lingers in the ground around Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases.
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Nevada’s governor and congressional delegation are pointing to earthquakes this month in the California desert and calling for the U.S. Energy Department to look again at seismic risks of burying the nation’s most radioactive nuclear waste at a site in the Mojave Desert.
Read moreAutoZone will pay California $11 million to settle claims that it illegally disposed millions of hazardous-waste items.
Read moreDiving into a decades-long stalemate, federal lawmakers considered three bills Thursday that take different approaches to the storage and disposal of America’s nuclear waste.
Read moreThe federal government on Wednesday reclassifed some of the nation’s most dangerous radioactive waste to reduce its threat level, outraging critics who say the move will make it cheaper and easier to walk away from cleaning up nuclear weapons production sites in Washington state, Idaho and South Carolina.
Read moreClaiming that they and and the environment were exposed to dangerous toxins, 15 named plaintiffs brought a federal class action against The 3M Co., DuPont and others that manufactured and sold Aqueous Film Forming Foam and related materials in and around Oscoda, Michigan.
Read moreCompanies specializing in nuclear demolition and radioactive waste storage are buying up aging U.S. reactors and promising to decommission them in dramatically less time than their utility owners had planned — eight years instead of 60 in some cases.
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