"State Alerts Mpls. Neighborhood About Underground Vapors"
"Fumes could enter Minneapolis homes from the soil, once contaminated with a solvent from an old General Mills lab."
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11/08/2013
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New Jersey: "EPA Announces $46.7M Ringwood Cleanup Plan"
"Almost 200,000 tons of contaminated soil would be removed from the 500-acre Ringwood Superfund site — where the Ford Motor Co. dumped toxic paint sludge from its Mahwah factory 40 years ago — under a proposal issued Monday by federal environmental officials."
Source: Bergen Record, 10/01/2013
"EPA Approves Gowanus Cleanup Plan"
"The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday released its formal, final decision on how to complete the Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, a waterway whose depths contain toxins from long-ago industry and more recent sewage overflows."
Source: Brooklyn Bureau, 10/01/2013
"Industry Still Churns, Even as Cleanup Plan Proceeds for a Canal"
"The federal government is about to release its final, $500 million cleanup plan for the Gowanus Canal, one of New York City’s two Superfund sites, a long-awaited moment in the effort to cleanse more than a century of environmental abuse."
Source: NY Times, 09/27/2013
"The Wound That Won’t Heal: Idaho’s Phosphate Problem"
"An elemental phosphorus plant owned by the FMC Corp., on the Shoshone-Bannock homelands in Idaho, has been abandoned for more than a decade. But its legacy of pollution remains -- and it’s jeopardizing economic progress, public and environmental health on the reservation and in surrounding communities."
Source: Indian Country Today, 09/26/2013
"What It Means To Be 95 Percent Certain About Climate Change"
"WASHINGTON -- Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill."
Source: AP, 09/25/2013
"Long Island's 254 Superfund Sites Threaten Its Drinking Water"
"Long Island's sole source of drinking water lies beneath many of the most contaminated places in New York State."
Source: LI Newsday, 09/24/2013
"Major Cleanup To Begin at NH $50M Superfund Site"
"CONCORD, N.H. -- Cleanup at one of the state's major Superfund pollution sites is moving into high gear."
Source: AP, 09/20/2013
3 Years Later: Sunken Oil Is Looming Threat to Kalamazoo River
"Once black with oil, the Kalamazoo River runs clear now. But EPA orders dredging and says it will be years before the spill's long-term effects are known."
Source: InsideClimate News, 07/26/2013
"DWP To Build Groundwater Treatment Plants on Superfund Site"
"The facilities will restore pumping of drinking water from scores of contaminated San Fernando Valley wells, lessening L.A.'s reliance on imported water, agency says."
Source: LA Times, 06/24/2013
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