hazardous release News
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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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US Ecology to pay nearly $500,000 for hazardous waste violations (NV)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today fined US Ecology $497,982 for 18 counts of hazardous waste violations. US Ecology operates a commercial hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facility in Nye County, Nev., on the outskirts of Beatty. EPA inspectors found numerous violations at a hazardous waste unit designed to thermally treat contaminated materials, like soils, to remove ...
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Three parties to pay nearly $2 million for clean-up at N. Dighton, Mass. site (MA)
Three parties EPA has found responsible for cleaning up contaminated land known as the Winthrop Street Drums Site in North Dighton, have agreed to perform a removal action estimated at almost $2 million dollars. The settlement, effective June 1, requires the three parties – Zeneca Inc., Waste Management Disposal Services of Massachusetts, Inc., and the Barbara Gustafson Trust – to ...
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EPA Adds Five, Proposes Three Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is adding five hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. In addition, the agency is proposing to add three additional sites to the list. The Superfund program, a federal program established by Congress in 1980, investigates and cleans up the most complex, ...
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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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NH Hazardous Waste Site Added to Superfund’s National Priorities List; Windham, Maine Site Proposed
Today EPA is adding one New Hampshire hazardous waste site posing a risk to people’s health and the environment to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites. EPA is also proposing to add one Maine site to the list. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country to protect ...
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EPA proposes site in New Jersey for the superfund list of hazardous waste sites
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add the Curtis Specialty Papers, Inc. site (also known as the James River Paper site) in Milford, Hunterdon County, New Jersey to the EPA’s National Priorities List (NPL) of sites with known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories. The NPL ...
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New Site in Puerto Rico Added to the EPA’s Superfund National Priorities List
Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it was adding the Ochoa Fertilizer Co. site in Guánica, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). The move allows EPA to protect the nearby community where releases of contamination could pose a significant human health and environmental risk. According to EPA: The Ochoa Fertilizer Co. site includes a ...
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Muncher prototype providing greener option for waste disposal
Revolutionizing the way companies and facilities dispose of everyday waste and materials, Nevada-based company Ecologico-Logic is unveiling and demonstrating its machine prototype, the Muncher, as an environmentally friendly alternative to waste disposal. Ecologico-Logic consists of seven individuals with strong backgrounds in business, manufacturing, mechanical engineering and environmental ...
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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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