Brooklyn's Infamous Gowanus Canal Given Superfund Status By EPA

2010-03-02T11:32:42Z

NEW YORK - MARCH 02: A city worker prepares to lift a draw bridge over the heavily polluted Gowanus Canal on March 2, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The 140-year-old Brooklyn waterway has just been named as a Superfund site by the federal

Decades-old dioxins pollute river, divide US community

2010-02-23T16:16:29Z

<div><p>The signs posted along Michigan's Tittabawassee River warning of dangerous dioxin levels don't really worry fisherman David Mitchell. </p><p>If he catches a fish that swims here year round he tosses it back. But if he hooks a walleye -- an occasional visitor...

Asarco pays $52 million for cleanup at EP smelter

2010-02-23T18:00:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Copper miner Asarco to provide $52 million for environmental cleanup at El Paso smelter</div><div><p>Copper miner Asarco LLC has provided $52 million to help pay for environmental cleanup at its closed El Paso smelter.</p><p>The state Indiana steel plant nearly complete</div><div><p>The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the first phase of a toxic waste cleanup at a north central Indiana Superfund site is nearly complete.</p>&a...

EPA writing rules for hardrock mine cleanups

2010-02-26T10:02:40Z

<div id="subtitle">EPA to develop rule to ensure hardrock miners will pay for environmental cleanup</div><div><p>The Environmental Protection Agency, complying with a court order, will develop a rule to guarantee companies that mine everything from copper to uranium will pay for needed environmental cleanup, not taxpayers.</p&g...

Court puts limits on liability in toxic spill

2010-02-27T15:59:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Supreme Court says Shell not responsible for contaminated site cleanup costs</div><div><p>The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered chemicals to the site.&lt...

EPA selects 50 polluted sites for stimulus money

2010-03-03T03:34:16Z

<div id="subtitle">Funds will accelerate cleanups in 28 states, removing hazards from tainted communities</div><div><p>For decades, the New Bedford Harbor was a dumping ground for industrial metals and other contaminants. But now that harbor and 49 other polluted and hazardous waste sites are a step closer to a major cleanup.</p><p>US Virgin Islands backs EPA plan to remove chemical factory from Superfund list</div><div><p>The U.S. Virgin Islands is endorsing a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to take an old chemical factory off a Superfund list of heavily pollute...

Supreme Court mulls who pays after toxic spills

2010-03-01T10:42:14Z

<div><p>The Supreme Court Tuesday heard arguments in a case to determine whether companies can be held financially liable for cleaning up polluted sites even when not directly to blame for the contamination.</p><p>The US high court heard petitions in two separate, but similar cases: Burlington Northern v. United States...

Redding California News - March 29, 2000

2009-04-24T02:02:08Z

Ted Arman stands near the top of Iron Mountain west of Redding. Arman plans to build a 200-foot Italian marble statue of Jesus Christ atop the 3,500-foot peak that is on U.S. Envir...

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