industrial waste law News
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EPA Adds Louisiana Site to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding the Colonial Creosote site in Washington Parish, LA, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment. In a separate action, EPA also proposes to add the SBA Shipyard site in Jennings, La., to the list. “The goal of Superfund programs is to make ...
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EPA Proposes the Addition of Sites in Atlantic, Iowa, and Norfolk, Nebraska, to Superfund’s National Priorities List
EPA is proposing to add two environmentally contaminated sites in Region 7 – the PCE Former Dry Cleaner Site in Atlantic, Iowa, and the Iowa-Nebraska Light & Power Company Site in Norfolk, Neb. – to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL), potentially making both sites eligible for long-term cleanup funding. The proposed addition of the two Region 7 sites to ...
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EPA Proposes to Add Roswell, NM, Groundwater Plume to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to add the Lea and West Second Street Groundwater Plume site in Roswell, NM, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in ...
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EPA Adds Burnet Co., TX, Groundwater Plume to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the Main Street Groundwater Plume site in Burnet Co., TX, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country and ...
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EPA Adds Five Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List and Proposes an Additional Seven
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding five hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). A separate action includes a proposal to add seven sites to the list. “Since the creation of the Superfund program 35 years ago, EPA has been addressing the risk to human health and the environment as ...
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EPA Proposes to Add Burnet Co., TX, Groundwater Plume to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to add the Main Street Groundwater Plume site in Burnet Co., TX, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country ...
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EPA Proposes to Add Washington Parish, LA, Creosote Site to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to add the Colonial Creosote site in Washington Parish, LA, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country and ...
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EPA proposes Columbia Falls Aluminum Plant site for Superfund designation (Montana)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed adding the Anaconda Aluminum Company’s Columbia Falls Reduction Plant (also known as the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company Plant), near Columbia Falls, Mont., to the National Priorities List (NPL) making it eligible for additional study and cleanup resources under EPA’s Superfund program. The proposed listing will be subject ...
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EPA Adds Two, Proposes Six Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding two hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, reducing health impacts, including protecting infant health, and encouraging economic revitalization of a formerly toxic site. In addition, the agency is proposing to add six additional sites to the ...
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Responsible parties to pay $29.8 million in cleanup costs for Big John’s Salvage-Hoult Road Superfund Site
In settlement papers filed in federal district court, three companies have agreed to pay about $29.8 million in cleanup costs for a Superfund site in Fairmont, Marion County, W. Va., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. The three companies -- Exxon Mobil Corp., Vertellus Specialties Inc., and CBS Corp.-- will perform cleanup work and reimburse the EPA and the state of ...
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