hazardous waste sample News
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EPA Announces Hiring of Pollution Prevention Expert Dr. Anahita Williamson will Lead EPA Region 2 Science Division
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 announced that it has selected Rochester Institute of Technology engineer Dr. Anahita Williamson to be the Director of EPA Region 2’s Division of Environmental Science and Assessment in Edison, NJ. Dr. Williamson is currently director of the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology. In her six ...
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EPA fines Western refining Southwest, Inc. for illegally disposing hazardous waste and improper sampling (NM)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fined Western Refining Southwest, Inc. for failing to adequately monitor benzene discharges and illegally disposing hazardous waste. The company is in noncompliance of a Consent Agreement and Final Order (CAFO) filed in Aug. 2009. “It is important to everyone that companies are following proper protocols needed to protect the environment and ...
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EPA adds Corozal well Site in Corozal, Puerto Rico to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has added the Corozal Well site in Barrio Palos Blancos, Corozal, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling at the site, which is in a rural area near the municipalities of Corozal and Naranjito, found that the chemical tetrachloroethylene or PCE is ...
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EPA adds mansfield trail dump site in Byram Township, NJ to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added the Mansfield Trail Dump Site in Byram Township, New Jersey to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling has shown that chemical contamination in a wooded area of the site where waste was dumped in trenches is affecting a number of nearby homes. Chemicals have vaporized from ...
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EPA adds two Puerto Rico sites to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added the Cabo Rojo Ground Water Contamination site in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico and the Hormigas Ground Water Plume site in Caguas to its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling at the sites found chemical contamination that is impacting wells once used to supply drinking water to the ...
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EPA proposes to add Puerto Rico site to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding the Corozal Well site in Barrio Palos Blancos, Corozal, Puerto Rico to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling at the site, which is in a rural area near the municipalities of Corozal and Naranjito, found that the chemical tetrachloroethylene (or PCE) is contaminating a well ...
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EPA proposes to add Mansfield trail dump site in Byram Township, NJ to the superfund list (NJ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to add the Mansfield Trail Dump Site in Byram Township, New Jersey to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling has shown that chemical contamination in a wooded area where waste was dumped in trenches is affecting a number of nearby homes. Chemical vapors from contaminated soil ...
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EPA proposes to add two Puerto Rico sites to the superfund list (PR)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to add both the Cabo Rojo Ground Water Contamination Site in the municipality of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico and the Hormigas Ground Water Plume Site in the municipality of Caguas to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling at the sites has found chemical contamination that is ...
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