"Sapping the Superfund's Strength"
The Superfund hazardous waste cleanup program has been slow to start and finish hundreds of cleanups.
Source: Nation, 04/19/2010
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"Lyondell Leaves Kalamazoo Poisoned as Bankruptcies Mar Cleanups"
"Environmentalist Jeff Spoelstra says an 80-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River that runs through toxin-laced land in southwestern Michigan was on its way to becoming safe again. ...Then, in January 2009, Lyondell Chemical Co. filed for bankruptcy protection. The Houston-based petrochemical giant argued in court that as it reorganized, it could avoid what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said were about $2.5 billion in cleanup costs...."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/07/2010
EPA Adds NY's Gowanus Canal, 9 Other Sites, to Superfund List
EPA added Brooklyn's long-polluted Gowanus Canal to the Superfund National Priority List -- along with nine other sites. The designation means that EPA will oversee the cleanup. New York City Mayor Bloomberg had been pushing for a city-run cleanup.
Source: AP, 03/03/2010
"Company Seeks To Settle River-Cleanup Liability"
"The U.S. arm of chemical giant LyondellBasell is in negotiations to settle its environmental cleanup liabilities — which include the Kalamazoo River Superfund site — with the U.S. government, according to a company spokesman."
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette, 03/02/2010
"Conflicts on PCBs' Removal"
"General Electric Co. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offered different lessons Wednesday on the first year of PCB Hudson River dredging -- starting with how much PCBs were removed."
Source: Albany Times-Union, 02/19/2010
"Milestone Report on Portland Harbor Pollution Lowballs Risk, EPA Says"
"An exhaustive report on Portland Harbor contamination -- written by industries and local government agencies that will likely have to pay for much of the cleanup -- tends to 'minimize the risks to human health and the environment' from harbor pollution, federal regulators say."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 01/22/2010
EPA Finds Hudson PCBs 25 Times Higher Than Expected
"Hudson River dredging released almost 25 times more PCBs into the water than expected, General Electric said Thursday in calling for changes in performance standards before the massive Superfund cleanup resumes."
Source: AP, 01/22/2010
Arizona: "ANP Agrees To $5 Million Groundwater, Soil Cleanup"
"The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Apache Nitrogen Products, Inc. entered into a $5 million consent decree to remove toxic nitrates and perchlorates from groundwater and to monitor the progress. at the Apache Powder Superfund Site, near David [Arizona]."
Source: Arizona Range News, 01/07/2010
"Health Care Reform Could Expand Coverage to Libby Residents"
"Sen. Max Baucus, one of Montana's two senators and a chief figure in the federal government's attempt to pass health care reform, added a provision to the U.S. Senate version of the bill that would expand Medicare coverage to 'individuals exposed to environmental health hazards.'"
Source: Flathead Beacon, 12/29/2009
"Portland Harbor Contamination Poses Risk To Humans, Environment, Study Shows"
"Decades of industrial pollution in the Portland Harbor Superfund site have left high levels of contaminants in river sediment, an exhaustive survey concludes, posing risks to wildlife, fish and humans who eat fish from the nine-mile stretch of the Willamette River."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 10/26/2009
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