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Colorado area open to Superfund cleanup after mine spill

Southwestern Colorado officials said Friday that they are ready to talk to the Environmental Protection Agency about a federally financed Superfund cleanup of inactive mines, including one that spewed millions of gallons of wastewater and polluted rivers in three states this summer. It would be an important step toward cleaning up hundreds of idle mines that have been pouring acidic wastewater ...

Nov. 21, 2015

By Associated Press

Pueblo of Laguna Resident Receives National Community Involvement Award

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Amy Garcia of the Pueblo of Laguna as the winner of the national 2013 Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award. This annual award recognizes outstanding achievements in environmental protection and community-involvement leadership during Superfund cleanups. Superfund is the federal program created by Congress to address the ...

Aug. 21, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to evaluate four Superfund cleanups in Delaware

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing site cleanups and remedies at four Superfund sites in Delaware. These routine check-ups, known as ‘five-year reviews,’ will be done at Superfund sites across the Mid-Atlantic region this year. EPA conducts evaluations every five years to determine if the remedies at each site continue to be protective of human health and the ...

May 6, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Makes It Easier for States, Tribes and Others to Get Involved in Superfund Cleanup

EPA is updating the regulation governing Superfund cooperative agreements and Superfund state contracts to promote greater involvement in the cleanup of Superfund sites by states, Indian tribes, intertribal consortia and other government divisions. EPA has issued a final rule, Cooperative Agreements and Superfund State Contracts for Superfund Response Actions, to make changes that will improve ...

May 2, 2007

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Duwamish job training initiative produces 14 graduates funded by EPA program

On Tuesday, June 18, 14 men and women will graduate from the EPA Superfund Job Training Initiative with skills and certifications that make them eligible for jobs associated with the Lower Duwamish Waterway Superfund cleanup. The graduation will be held at the McKinstry Innovation Center in Seattle. The EPA-funded training included health and safety training, history of the Duwamish ...

Jun. 18, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to evaluate Superfund cleanup in Suffolk City, Va.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing the site cleanup and remedy at the Suffolk City Superfund Sites in Virginia. These routine check-ups, known as ‘five-year reviews,’ will be done at Superfund sites across the Mid-Atlantic region this year. EPA conducts evaluations every five years to determine if the remedies at each site continue to be protective of human health ...

May 6, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to evaluate Superfund cleanups in 16 Pa. communities

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing site cleanups and remedies at the 16 Superfund Sites in Pennsylvania. These routine check-ups, known as ‘five-year reviews,’ will be done at Superfund sites across the Mid-Atlantic region this year. EPA conducts evaluations every five years to determine if the remedies at each site continue to be protective of human health and ...

May 6, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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 ...

Mar. 24, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

US$600m recovery act funding to clean up hazardous waste sites, create jobs

EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson has announced US$600 million in new funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the cleanup of hazardous waste (Superfund) sites across the nation. In most cases, this recovery act funding will accelerate the hazardous waste cleanup already underway at the sites and fund new clean-up projects. It will also jumpstart the local economy by ...

Apr. 27, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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 ...

Sep. 16, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to evaluate Superfund cleanup in Suffolk City, Va.

The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency is reviewing the site cleanup and remedy at the Suffolk City Superfund Sites in Virginia. These routine check-ups, known as ‘five-year reviews,’ will be done at Superfund sites across the Mid-Atlantic region this year. EPA conducts evaluations every five years to determine if the remedies at each site continue to be protective of human health ...

May 6, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA invites public to meeting on ten-mile drain site

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 will hold an open house followed by a public meeting Thursday, Aug. 26, to update the community on the ongoing investigation and provide details about the next phase of work at the Ten-Mile Drain site in St. Clair Shores, Mich. At the open house, 1 to 4 p.m., Aug. 26, at the St. Clair Shores Public Library, 22500 E. 11 Mile Road, St. Clair Shores, ...

Aug. 24, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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 ...

May 21, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to Clean Up Final Section of Portage Creek in Kalamazoo

This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will begin the final stage of cleanup work on Portage Creek, which flows into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. Approximately 4,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment will be removed from the creek. EPA expects to complete the Portage Creek cleanup this year -- months ahead of the initially-projected Summer 2014 completion date. The cost of ...

Jul. 31, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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 ...

Mar. 24, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA completes cleanup of over 600 South Minneapolis homes ahead of schedule

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Susan Hedman today announced that the Agency has finished its cleanup of contaminated soil in a South Minneapolis neighborhood a full year ahead of schedule. Hedman was joined by officials from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the city of Minneapolis at an event today for neighborhood residents at the East Phillips Community ...

Jun. 5, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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 ...

Mar. 24, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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 ...

Sep. 17, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Construction completed at naval station Norfolk superfund site (VA)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the U.S. Navy has completed Superfund cleanup construction at the Naval Station Norfolk/Naval Support Activity Norfolk, culminating 27 years of investigation and remediation at the largest naval base in the world. EPA considers construction completion as the most important Superfund milestone because it means that all physical ...

Nov. 1, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA: Lockheed West Seattle/Shipyard 2 cleanup will help Puget Sound

Another environmental milestone has been reached at the former Lockheed West Seattle Shipyard/Shipyard 2 on Seattle’s Elliott Bay. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an order to the Lockheed Martin Corporation for the cleanup of their property on Seattle’s Elliott Bay. Lockheed West Seattle/Shipyard 2, is the latest in a series of more than 50 federal, state and ...

Apr. 28, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

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