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EPA Proposes Fairmont City, Illinois, site for Superfund National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding the Old American Zinc site in Fairmont City, 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 Old American Zinc Plant is a 132-acre former zinc smelting facility that ...
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EPA extends public comment period on proposed remedies for radford army ammunition plant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period until Aug. 31 on the proposed remedies for cleaning up the Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RAAP). The public comment period, which opened May 25, was originally scheduled to close July 25. But residents requested additional time to comment on the proposed remedies that are outlined in the Corrective Action Statement ...
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Food Processing Company Settles Violations of Chemical Release Reporting Requirements at Allentown, Pa. Facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that SunOpta Consumer Products Group, a division of SunOpta Foods, Inc., has agreed to pay a $19,049 penalty for failing to properly report a September 12, 2012 ammonia release at its food processing facility in Allentown, Pa. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) mandates that facilities immediately notify state ...
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EPA sets june 27, 2011 for public hearing on proposed remedies for radford army ammunition plant
On Monday, June 27, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public meeting followed by a public hearing for members of the community on the proposed remedies for cleaning up the Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RAAP). The remedies are outlined in the Corrective Action Statement of Basis (SB) and EPA will present information and answer questions from the community on the SB ...
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US Settles With DuPont to Resolve Clean Air Act Violations and Protect Communities and Kanawha River Near West Virginia Facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Justice announced today a settlement with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) at its Belle, W. Va. facility for eight alleged releases of harmful levels of hazardous substances between May 2006 and January 2010. Several of the releases posed significant risk to people or the Kanawha River. One DuPont worker died after ...
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US Settles with DuPont to Resolve Clean Air Act Violations and Protect Communities, Kanawha River Near West Virginia Facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced today a settlement with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) at its Belle, W. Va. facility for eight alleged releases of harmful levels of hazardous substances between May 2006 and January 2010. Several of the releases posed significant risk to people or the Kanawha River. One DuPont worker died after ...
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EPA publishes notice identifying hardrock mining industry for financial responsibility requirements
The U.S. EPA has identified the hardrock mining industry as its priority for developing financial assurance requirements. Financial assurance requirements help ensure that owners and operators of these facilities, not taxpayers, foot the bill for environmental cleanup. These requirements will be developed under section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability ...
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Dunbar Asphalt to Clean up 29-Acre Portion of Sharon Steel Superfund Site, Hermitage, Pa.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a proposed settlement the government has reached with Dunbar Asphalt Products, Inc., to clean up a 29-acre portion of the Sharon Steel Corporation Superfund Site in Hermitage, Pa. The cleanup will better protect workers from exposure to contaminants on the site and prevent airborne releases of the contaminants. “This settlement ...
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EPA requires Southern California metal finishers to stop illegal hazardous waste releases, wastewater discharges
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today the resolution of a series of enforcement actions at five Southern California metal finishing companies which will collectively pay more than $223,700 in civil penalties for hazardous waste and Clean Water Act violations. The violations were uncovered during inspections conducted at facilities in the cities of Compton, Paramount, Ontario, ...
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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 Proposes Indianapolis hazardous waste site for Superfund National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding the West Vermont Drinking Water Contamination site, Indianapolis, Indiana, 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. At the site, an 18-acre groundwater plume of chlorinated ...
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U.S. EPA proposes $17 million settlement with 275 parties to clean up former Los Angeles area Hazardous Waste Landfill
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Southwest Region is proposing to enter into settlements with 275 small parties, called de minimis parties, for the Operating Industries, Inc. (OII), Superfund Site. The OII Site is a 190-acre facility located in Monterey Park, Calif., about 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The OII Site was operated as a landfill accepting commercial, ...
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EPA adds former Colorado Smelter site in Pueblo, Colo. to Superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today added the former Colorado Smelter site in Pueblo, Colo., 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 to protect public health and the environment. “Listing the Colorado Smelter site on the ...
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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 Region 7 Announces Proposed Deletion of 1,154 Properties from National Priorities List at the Omaha Lead Superfund Site
National and regional EPA officials, along with state and local leaders, gathered today in Omaha, Neb., to announce EPA’s proposed deletion of 1,154 properties from the National Priorities List (NPL) at the Omaha Lead Superfund Site, a first official signal of completed cleanup for part of the nation’s largest residential lead remediation site. “Today’s action is a ...
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U.S. EPA Requires AllenCo to Pay Penalty for Federal Violations
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with AllenCo Energy, Inc., requiring the company to pay $99,000 for violations of federal environmental laws. The penalty is in addition to the ongoing work identified in an April 2014 consent agreement with EPA. EPA’s November 2013 inspection, prompted by community complaints regarding emissions coming from the facility, ...
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EPA Protects New Mexico and Citizens from leaks and releases of hazardous waste
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $450,000 to the New Mexico Environment Department as the first funding portion of an annual $900,000 state program continuing grant. The grant helps to fund the state’s Hazardous Waste Program. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program is delegated to New Mexico by EPA. Program activities include permitting, clean ...
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EPA places Salt Lake City groundwater plume on National Priority List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that the 700 South 1600 East PCE Plume site in Salt Lake City, Utah, was finalized to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) of contaminated sites. Sites on the NPL are priorities for additional study and cleanup resources under EPA's Superfund program. The 700 South 1600 East PCE Plume site is located near the George E. Wahlen ...
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Settlement will pay clean air act penalties and repay portion of clean up costs from Danvers, Mass. explosion in 2006
The United States has reached agreement with the owners and a former operator of an inks and paint products manufacturing facility in Danvers, Mass., that exploded and burned in 2006 the day before Thanksgiving. Under a consent decree lodged today by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the owners and operator will pay the U.S. Government a ...
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California to set drinking water level for dangerous chemical hex chrome
Hexavalent chromium (hex chrome), the notorious cancer-causing chemical made famous in the film Erin Brockovich, contaminates drinking water in over 500 California communities, according to environmental and public health experts. The California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) held a hearing to take public comment on a proposed level for hex chrome in drinking water. Although the ...
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