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US Navy agrees to clean up superfund sites where soil contaminated with PCBs, volatile organic compounds & metals
The U.S. Department of the Navy has signed an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Hawaii’s Department of Health to address clean up at Navy owned property at Wahiawa and Lualualei on Oahu. Under the terms of the Federal Facility Agreement, the Navy will work with the EPA and the state to address any remaining issues at the Naval Computer and ...
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Bremerton Gasworks in Washington proposed for national hazardous cleanup listing
Bremerton Gasworks, a former coal gasification plant that operated in Bremerton, Washington from 1930 to 1963, has been proposed for placement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s list of the most contaminated sites in the nation. Located in Bremerton, Washington, the site occupies approximately three and a half acres of land next to the Port of Washington Narrows in Puget Sound. ...
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EPA adds three hazardous waste sites to superfund’s national priorities list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding three new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. EPA’s Superfund program investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. “Superfund cleanups take contaminated ...
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Bremerton gasworks added to superfund national hazardous cleanup list
Bremerton Gasworks, a former coal gasification plant that operated in Bremerton, Washington from 1930 to 1963, will be listed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s national list of highly contaminated sites. Bremerton Gasworks is located a mile and a half from downtown Bremerton, along the Port of Washington Narrows. EPA will manage the site under the Superfund cleanup program. ...
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EPA to begin final cleanup of recovery act-funded South Minneapolis arsenic site; Open House Aug. 26
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said today that cleanup of arsenic-contaminated soil at nearly 500 South Minneapolis homes will begin after Labor Day. This project is supported by US$20 million in funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Residents pay nothing for the cleanup. From 2004 to 2008, an EPA Superfund team cleaned up 197 properties with arsenic levels ...
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EPA reaches settlement with companies to pay cleanup costs for Occidental Chemical Corp. Superfund site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that current and former owners and operators of the Occidental Chemical Corporation Superfund Site in Lower Pottsgrove Township, Montgomery County, Pa. have agreed to pay $2.1 million in past cleanup costs for the site. In a consent decree filed in federal court by the Justice Department on behalf of EPA, the companies also assumed ...
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Construction completed at naval station Norfolk superfund site (VA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the U.S. Navy has completed Superfund cleanup construction at the Naval Station Norfolk/Naval Support Activity Norfolk, culminating 27 years of investigation and remediation at the largest naval base in the world. EPA considers construction completion as the most important Superfund milestone because it means that all physical ...
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Cleaned-up superfund site to benefit New Jersey town
Exhibiting the very spirit of the Superfund program, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Regional Administrator, Alan J. Steinberg, joined Congressman Frank Pallone and Edison Township Mayor Jun Choi today in announcing the closure of the sale of a 5.7-acre property, which once was marked as a Superfund site, and will be put to productive use by the community of Edison Township, New ...
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Upstate New York fire academy costly to clean
Some of the country's largest corporations are required to reimburse the state of New York a total of nearly $1.6 million for cleanup costs at the Rochester Fire Academy, a hazardous waste site in Monroe County once used to train firefighters. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo Wednesday announced a settlement with eight entities, including Bausch & Lomb, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, and Xerox, which ...
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Allegheny-Ludlum to pay $535,000 in cleanup costs for Breslube-Penn Superfund site
In settlement papers filed in federal district court, Allegheny-Ludlum has agreed to reimburse the federal government for $535,000 of past cleanup costs at the Breslube-Penn Superfund site in Coraopolis, Pa., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. Allegheny Ludlum is the last of 158 responsible parties to reach a settlement with EPA since 2005 over cleanup costs associated ...
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EPA Honors 17 Environmental Job Training Program Graduates in Columbus, Miss.
During a ceremony today at the Genesis Dream Center in Columbus, Miss., representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized 17 graduates from the Superfund Job Training Initiative (SuperJTI). EPA provided the two-week environmental job training program in conjunction with the ongoing cleanup at the Kerr McGee Chemical Superfund Site. The SuperJTI program was offered to ...
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EPA recognizes Hillsborough County, Fl., for Taylor Road Landfill superfund site reuse (FL)
At a ceremony this morning, EPA honored Hillsborough County, Florida, with the 2010 EPA Region 4 Excellence in Site Reuse award for creatively reusing the former Taylor Road Landfill site to serve multiple purposes that benefit the community. Region 4 created the Excellence in Site Reuse award to recognize those who have gone above and beyond in redeveloping a Superfund site. Since clean up ...
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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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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: Lockheed West Seattle/Shipyard 2 cleanup will help Puget Sound
Another environmental milestone has been reached at the former Lockheed West Seattle Shipyard/Shipyard 2 on Seattle’s Elliott Bay. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an order to the Lockheed Martin Corporation for the cleanup of their property on Seattle’s Elliott Bay. Lockheed West Seattle/Shipyard 2, is the latest in a series of more than 50 federal, state and ...
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EPA Recognizes Excellence in Site Reuse in West Dallas
“Through EPA’s Superfund Redevelopment Initiative, our cleanups have helped communities across the country return over 850 of the nation's worst hazardous waste sites to safe and productive uses,” said Mathy Stanislaus, EPA’s assistant administrator of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. “There is no stronger testament to the power of redevelopment at a ...
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EPA adds three hazardous waste sites in the Southeast to superfund’s national priorities list (FL, TN)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added three new hazardous waste sites in the southeast that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. The following three sites in the Southeast ...
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US: New integrated cleanup initiative will help accelerate site cleanup and provide greater transparency for communities
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) marks the accomplishments of the Superfund program during the past 30 years, it is also taking steps to make the program stronger and more efficient to address the evolving challenges of cleaning up hazardous waste sites. The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) was signed into law on December ...
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EPA adds seven hazardous waste sites to superfund’s national priorities list/actions to help clean up and revitalize local communities (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding seven new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. To date, there have been 1,627 sites listed on the ...
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EPA adds two Hazardous waste sites in the Southeast to superfund’s national priorities list (GA, NC)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added two new hazardous waste sites in the southeast that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. The following two sites in the Southeast ...
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