"Cold War Missile Site Targeted"
Cleanup of toxic chemicals at 26 former Cold War missile sites in Kansas is an unfinished project.
Source: Topeka Capitol-Journal, 11/16/2009
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD)
"Sewer Plants Pollute Water"
"Iowa's outdated sewage treatment plants regularly dump excess pollution into rivers and streams that provide drinking water for up to 900,000 people and recreation for many more, a Des Moines Register analysis of state records shows."
Source: Des Moines Register, 11/02/2009
"EPA Signals It's Ready To Buy Out Treece"
"Congress authorized buying out the residents of the contaminated community of Treece [Kansas] on Thursday, and the Environmental Protection Agency signaled it's ready to move forward with emptying the town of people."
Source: Wichita Eagle, 10/30/2009
"High Lead Levels Return Near Doe Run Smelter"
"More than 100 properties near the Doe Run Co.'s smelter have been recontaminated with dangerous levels of lead, a finding that comes less than a decade after regulators ordered the company to remove and replace polluted soil on the properties, the U.S. EPA said Monday."
Source: St.Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/28/2009
"Even More E. coli Tests at the Lake of the Ozarks Were Withheld"
Missouri "allowed tourists at the Lake of the Ozarks to swim in waters that officials knew were infested with harmful E. coli bacteria for two weeks at the beginning of the summer tourist season, Gov. Jay Nixon said Wednesday."
Source: St.Louis Post-Dispatch, 10/02/2009
Keeping The Breadbasket From Drying Up
Right now, America's Bread Basket relies on an aquifer that's nearly drained. And, many say, it will dry up if farmers keep pumping water from it at the current rate. The Environment Report's Devin Browne reports the government plans to pay farmers as one way to get them to cut water use.
Source: Environment Report, 09/18/2009
"SD Board OKs Air Quality Permit for Oil Refinery"
"A state board voted unanimously Thursday to approve an air quality permit for a $10 billion oil refinery that Hyperion Resources wants to build in southeastern South Dakota."
Source: AP, 08/21/2009
"Iowa Universities Will Not Alter Coal Ash Disposal Practices"
"Iowa’s three largest public universities have determined that their coal ash disposal method does not pose a risk to the public health, a decision some say was made without sufficient evidence or regard for experiences with contamination in neighboring states."
Source: Iowa Independent, 08/07/2009
Missouri To Probe Secrecy on Lake E. Coli Data
"Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is investigating whether a state agency violated the law by not releasing data showing E. coli bacteria above safe levels in the Lake of the Ozarks."
Source: Kansas City Star, 07/21/2009
"EPA Plan for Missouri Lead Waste Worries Residents"
"For generations, people in Leadwood have lived near huge piles of dangerous, lead-contaminated mining waste. Now the EPA has decided the answer to the problem is to pile on more lead-tainted earth. To many folks, that makes no sense at all."
Source: AP, 07/21/2009
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