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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 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 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 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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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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Three phoenix area firms fined for hazardous waste violations
Three Phoenix area companies were fined for violating state and federal hazardous waste laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. In separate actions, the manufacturing and processing companies will pay penalties that total $131,000. “We impose strict environmental controls to make sure hazardous waste is properly handled,” said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA’s ...
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Leominster Dye company to pay fine for environmental violations
A Leominster company that produces plastic dye pellets has agreed to pay $17,409 to settle claims it violated state and federal hazardous waste management laws. Hudson Color Concentrates, located at 50 Francis St., produces custom color plastic pellet concentrates for the plastics industry working with mixtures of color pigments. Hudson is a division of L&A Molding. This settlement resolves ...
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EPA analysis shows reduction in 2008 Toxic Chemical Releases
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is releasing its annual national analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The TRI database contains information on chemical releases into the air, land and water, as well as waste management and pollution prevention activities. The analysis of the 2008 data, the most recent data set available, shows that 3.86 billion pounds of toxic chemicals were ...
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