hazardous waste site News
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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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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 Proposes One Hazardous Waste Site in the Southeast to Superfund’s National Priorities List
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is proposing the 35th Avenue site in Birmingham, AL, a site that pose risks to human health and the environment, 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 ...
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EPA Adds a Franklin, Mass. Hazardous Waste Site to Superfund’s National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will add 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 eliminating ...
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EPA Adds Two Hazardous Waste Sites in the Southeast to Superfund’s National Priorities List, Proposing an Additional Two Sites
EPA Adds Two Hazardous Waste Sites in the Southeast to Superfund’s National Priorities List, Proposing an Additional Two Sites ATLANTA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the addition of 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. EPA is also ...
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EPA Adds A Vermont Hazardous Waste Site to Superfund’s National Priorities List
EPA will add a Bennington, Vt. 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 eliminating or reducing health risks and environmental ...
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Public Meeting Scheduled for 35th Avenue Site in North Birmingham
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public meeting on Thursday, October 9, 2014 at 6:00 pm in the Trinity CME Church sanctuary on 3313 Shuttlesworth Dr., Birmingham, AL 35207 to inform community stakeholders about inclusion of the 35th Avenue Site on the National Priorities List (NPL). Citizens are invited to attend the presentation by Agency officials to learn more about ...
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EPA Adds Seven Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List/Agency also proposes to add an additional five sites
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding seven hazardous waste sites that pose risks to people's health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. EPA is also proposing to add another five sites to the list. 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 12 Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding 12 new hazardous waste sites that pose public health and environmental risks to the National Priorities List (NPL) for cleanup under the Superfund program. EPA is also proposing to add another eight sites to the list. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous ...
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EPA proposes former smelter site in Pueblo, Colo., for addition to Superfund National Priorities List
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed adding the former Colorado Smelter site in Pueblo, Colo., to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. The NPL proposal will be published in the Federal Register on May 12, initiating a 60-day public comment period on the proposed action. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, ...
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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 Administrator, Lisa Jackson, invited as Keynote for NEHA 2010 AEC & Exhibition
EPA Administrator, Lisa P. Jackson, has been invited as the keynote speaker for the NEHA 74th Annual Educational Conference & Exhibition. Her proposed presentation plans to focus on emerging public policy in regards to environmental concerns. It is also expected Administrator Jackson will talk about the relationship between a healthy environment and human health, and the environmental health ...
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EPA to discuss environmental justice at Washington conference
The Environmental Protection Agency will address environmental justice issues at a conference tomorrow at the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. Craig Hooks, EPA acting administrator for the Office of Administration and Resources Management, will deliver the keynote speech at the Third Annual State of Environmental Justice in America Conference on May 27. The conference will ...
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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 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 to add Makah Reservation Warmhouse Beach dump to federal Superfund cleanup list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add the Warmhouse Beach dump, on the Makah Reservation, in Neah Bay, Washington, to the Superfund National Priorities List. The proposed cleanup listing includes a public comment period from May 23 through July 23, 2013. “Adding the Warmhouse Beach dump to EPA’s Superfund cleanup list will help protect the Makah Tribe’s ...
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Environmental justice volunteers mobilize nationwide for Earth Month cleanup of former Washington, D.C. landfill
To help fuse the ideals of Earth Month and environmental justice, EPA and hundreds of volunteers from across the country tomorrow will clean up Kenilworth Park, the former landfill for Washington, D.C., as part of the Earth Day Environmental Justice Green Challenge Community Beautification Cleanup. EPA and the Earth Conservation Corps worked together to organize hundreds of volunteers from New ...
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EPA Awards US$800k in environmental justice grants to communities in 28 states
EPA is awarding approximately $800,000 in grants to organizations working with communities facing environmental justice challenges throughout the country. Forty grants, up to $20,000 each, are going to community-based organizations and local and tribal governments in 28 states for community projects aimed at addressing environmental and public health issues. “These grants mark the beginning of ...
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EPA Proposes Two Massachusetts Sites to be Added to National Superfund List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed two additions to the National Priorities List (NPL) – commonly referred to as Superfund – in Massachusetts. The NPL is a national list of sites that require further investigation and potential cleanup in order to protect human health and the environment in the long term. The sites being proposed to the NPL are the former Walton ...
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