hazardous waste site News
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EPA Continues Success at Hazardous Waste Sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continued to achieve cleanup progress at the nation's most complex hazardous waste sites during the past year. Superfund, the federal government program that cleans up these sites, completed work at 24 sites during fiscal year 2007 for a cumulative 1,030 sites with construction work completed. Sixty-four sites were made ready for redevelopment by local ...
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EPA supports superfund “polluter pays” provision / agency submits administration’s guidance to congress (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today sent a letter to Congress in support of reinstating the lapsed Superfund “polluter pays” taxes. Superfund is the federal government"s program that investigates and cleans up the nation"s most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites. If reinstated, the Superfund provision would provide a stable, dedicated source of revenue ...
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EPA proposes the west troy contaminated aquifer site in Ohio for superfund national priorities list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding the West Troy Contaminated Aquifer in Troy, Ohio, to the National Priorities List 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 city of Troy operates two well fields along a 1.25-mile segment of the Great Miami ...
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EPA proposes Bautsch-gray mine in Illinois for superfund national priorities list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding the Bautsch-Gray Mine near Galena, Illinois, to the National Priorities List 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 Bautsch-Gray Mine site consists of the remnants of an abandoned lead-zinc mine and ...
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EPA to host public listening session on whether to add vapor intrusion as a criterion for superfund sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will host its second public listening session on whether to include vapor intrusion threats as a criterion for including hazardous waste sites on the National Priorities List of Superfund sites on March 16, 2011 at the Bentley Reserve in San Francisco, Calif. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or ...
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EPA Continuing Cleanup Progress at Hazardous Waste Sites
(Washington, D.C.) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency continued to make significant progress in cleaning up America's most contaminated hazardous waste sites over the past year. Superfund, the federal government program that cleans up these sites, completed work at 40 sites during fiscal year 2006 for a cumulative total of 1,006 sites with construction work completed. 'EPA continues to ...
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Progress continues in cleaning up hazardous waste sites in the US
EPA continues to make significant progress in cleaning up America’s most contaminated hazardous waste sites and making them ready for productive use. EPA’s annual summary of the Superfund program’s accomplishments shows that construction was completed at 30 sites in 2008, for a cumulative total of 1,060 sites or approximately 67 percent of the sites on the National Priorities List. Superfund is ...
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EPA adds Illinois hazardous waste site to Superfund National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today added the site of the former Estech General Chemical Co. to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. The 54-acre site includes adjacent properties in Calumet City and Burnham, Illinois. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. The Estech ...
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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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US$600m recovery act funding to clean up hazardous waste sites, create jobs
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has announced US$600 million in new funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the cleanup of hazardous waste (Superfund) sites across the nation. In most cases, this recovery act funding will accelerate the hazardous waste cleanup already underway at the sites and fund new clean-up projects. It will also jumpstart the local economy by ...
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EPA to hold listening session on whether to add vapor intrusion as a criterion for superfund sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host its fourth public listening session on whether to include vapor intrusion threats as a criterion for considering hazardous waste sites for the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. The session will also include a discussion of EPA’s efforts to develop final technical guidance for handling vapor intrusion. Superfund is the EPA ...
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EPA adds Sandoval, Illinois, site to Superfund National piorities lst
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today added the Sandoval Zinc Co. site in Sandoval, Illinois, to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) of hazardous waste sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. The Sandoval Zinc smelting facility closed in 1985 and filed for ...
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Chemical supplier W.R. Grace to pay toward clean-up of hazardous waste sites
W.R. Grace has agreed to a $34 million bankruptcy settlement for cleanup costs at 32 Superfund sites across the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced today. This action settles a bankruptcy claim brought by the federal government to recover money for site cleanup. 'Bankruptcy is not a safe haven to avoid environmental responsibilities,' said ...
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Superfund green remediation strategy
The U.S. EPA is seeking public comment on a new strategy that would make cleanups at hazardous waste sites greener. The Superfund Green Remediation Strategy is an initial effort to outline key actions and related activities that can be undertaken to promote green remediation and to reduce energy use. EPA is taking comment on action items that fall into three major categories: policy and guidance ...
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EPA adds Two and Proposes One Site in the Southeast to Superfund’s National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added two and proposed one new hazardous waste site 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 Comprehensive ...
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Clarke Energy in France Providing Above and Beyond Unscheduled Service Support in Difficult Times
Clarke Energy’s team in France have provided above and beyond unscheduled service support to our customers during the COVID pandemic. After an issue was reported, it was determined that a complete short block replacement was required on the Jenbacher J320 engine installed at the non-hazardous waste landfill site of Septêmes les Vallons operated by ...
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Solinst demonstrates equipment at GOwen course
pOn the afternoon of May 6, a href=http://www.contaminatedsite.com/ target=_blankGOwen Environmental Ltd./a, along with AEHS and IAH, hosted an outdoor field demonstration session as part of an annual 5-day course on Contaminated and Hazardous Waste Site Management. Always a well organized and informative event for over 100 attendees, Solinst Canada Ltd. was very pleased to be included as a ...
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EPA Proposes Mass. Hazardous Waste Site to Superfund’s National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a Franklin, Mass. hazardous waste site to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. The Superfund program, a federal program established by Congress in 1980, investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country and converts them into productive local resources by ...
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EPA Adds One Hazardous Waste Site in the Southeast to Superfund’s National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the addition of one new hazardous waste site in the southeast that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. The following site in the Southeast has been added to the National Priorities List: Walker Machine Products, Inc. (former machine screw products manufacturer) in ...
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EPA adds ten hazardous waste sites to superfund’s national priorities list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding 10 new hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. The NPL is a listing of priority sites that EPA investigates to determine if actions are needed to clean up the waste. Superfund is the federal program that cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or ...
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