"EPA: 1,154 Properties Taken Off Omaha's Lead Cleanup List"
"Federal environmental officials have completed part of a massive cleanup of lead from Omaha properties that began 15 years ago."
Source: Omaha World-Herald, 06/05/2013
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Duwamish Toxics Cleanup Could Leave Other Health Problems Unsolved
"If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency isn’t going to ensure Seattle’s Duwamish River is clean enough for needy residents to fish there for their dinner, the agency needs to ensure those people get fish some other way – even if that means supplying seafood through food banks. Or building clean urban fishing ponds. Or giving people shares in a seafood cooperative akin to a community-supported-agriculture operation."
Source: Investigate West, 05/16/2013
"Progress Reported in Cleaning Up Delaware's Largest Superfund Site"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is reporting promising but uneven results in its latest report on costly efforts to control toxic pollution creeping away from Delaware’s largest Superfund cleanup site."
Source: Wilmington News Journal, 04/29/2013
Kalamazoo Mayor: EPA's Plan for Superfund Landfill Is 'Unacceptable'
"KALAMAZOO, MI -- Members of the Kalamazoo community gathered at a public forum Monday to learn more about the Allied Paper landfill site and to voice concerns with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to consolidate and cap the site in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood."
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette, 04/24/2013
"EPA To Test Hazardous Barrel Site"
"SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will conduct tests at a Tremont City site containing buried barrels filled with 1.5 million gallons of hazardous waste."
Source: Springfield News Sun, 04/16/2013
Duwamish Residents Face Health Threat As EPA Chooses Superfund Cleanup
"The residents of south Seattle's 98108 ZIP code, some living cheek-by-jowl with the Duwamish River Superfund site, face a high degree of environmental health threats and are likely to live sicker and die younger than residents of other Seattle neighborhoods, says a new report by two nonprofit groups."
Source: Investigate West, 03/28/2013
Portland Harbor Superfund Cleanup Plans Deficient: EPA
"A landmark report on Portland harbor cleanup alternatives drafted by key harbor property owners last year has 'many deficiencies' and needs 'substantial revision,' the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 01/23/2013
"EPA Finds Contamination at Former Rocket Test Site"
"SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- Lingering radioactive contamination exists at a former rocket test lab outside of Los Angeles that was the site of a partial nuclear meltdown, federal environmental regulators said Wednesday."
Source: AP, 12/13/2012
"Sandy Stirs Up Superfund Site In New Jersey"
"As Northeast states take measure of the destruction brought by Hurricane Sandy, there's a new concern. New York and New Jersey have dozens of Superfund sites close to the shore. Some of these toxic zones were flooded by Sandy's storm surge. There are worries in Newark that toxic chemicals may have been swept into some people's home."
Source: NPR, 11/19/2012
Arkema, Portland Harbor Superfund Site, Launches Long-Delayed Cleanup
"It's been a long time coming, but work is finally under way to contain pollution from one of Portland harbor's dirtiest sites, the former home of a DDT and rocket-fuel maker that's loaded with the full suite of harbor toxics."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 10/24/2012
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