"Incinerator Plan Needs Help From Lawmakers"
"S.C. legislators are being asked to loosen state rules so a New Jersey company can build a $450 million garbage incinerator in jobs-hungry Chester County."
Source: The State, 02/16/2010
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"Certification for Electronic Waste Recycling Gathers Support"
"The Natural Resources Defense Council Tuesday announced its endorsement of the first certification program for electronics recycling."
Source: ENS, 02/11/2010
Feinstein, Boxer Urge Delay on Expanding Central Valley Landfill
"The senators seek a moratorium on the facility's growth until investigations into birth defects in Kettleman City are completed."
Source: LA Times, 02/11/2010
EPA Reveals More High-Hazard Coal-Ash Sites
Disclosure of 22 electric-utility plans for handling coal-ash waste is a good start... but EPA also released the identities of some 40 more — previously undisclosed — scary ash impoundments.
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"North Central W.Va. is Ground Zero for Surface Mine Coal Ash"
"Mine operators are spreading serious amounts of coal combustion waste in W.Va. before the EPA declares it to be a hazardous material."
Source: WV State Journal, 01/28/2010
"Expansion of West's Largest Toxic-Waste Dump Is Approved"
"A county board in central California approved the expansion of the largest toxic-waste dump in the West, despite concerns about an increase in birth defects in a nearby farming town."
Source: AP, 12/24/2009
NJ Landfill Owner Payment of $1.8 Billion Largest in History
"The owner of the highly polluted Kin-Buc Landfill in Edison has agreed to make the largest environmental clean-up contribution in the United States, $1.79 billion, as part of a bankruptcy settlement."
Source: Newsroom Jersey, 12/11/2009
"Texas Plant Won't Burn Mexican PCB Materials"
"DALLAS -- A southeast Texas industrial plant is scrapping plans to import and incinerate 20,000 tons of hazardous materials from Mexico, the facility's general manager said Wednesday."
Source: AP, 11/19/2009
Coal-Ash Disposal Remains A Front-Burner Issue at EPA
Most of the 580-plus coal-ash impoundments and landfills in the
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