"EPA Targets Contaminated Alaska Mines"
With a push from EPA and some stimulus money, two contaminated Alaskan mines will be cleaned up.
Source: Juneau Empire, 07/22/2009
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Navajos Mark Uranium Spill 30 Years Later
"Thirty years ago today, an earthen tailings dam near the United Nuclear Corp. Church Rock Uranium mine collapsed, spilling ninety million gallons of liquid radioactive waste and eleven hundred tons of solid mill wastes into the Rio Puerco. The spill contaminated water, land and air at least 50 miles downstream on Navajo Nation land in New Mexico and Arizona."
Source: New Mexico Independent, 07/17/2009
EPA To Push Hard-Rock Mining Cleanup Bonds
"The Environmental Protection Agency, complying with a court order, will develop a rule to guarantee companies that mine everything from copper to uranium will pay for needed environmental cleanup, not taxpayers."
Source: AP, 07/14/2009
"EPA Attorneys Criticize Obama Nominee"
President Obama's nominee for the top Justice Department environmental enforcement job, Ignacia Moreno, has come under fire from EPA staff attorneys for her previous work defending GE -- a major polluter prosecuted by EPA. Backers say Moreno was tough on polluters in a previous stint at Justice.
Source: ProPublica, 07/08/2009
Enviros Have Rough Term in Supreme Court
"Environmental interests were trounced in the 2009 Supreme Court term that ends Monday."
Source: Greenwire, 06/26/2009
"EPA Plan Targets Vast DDT Deposit Off Calif. Coast"
"A plan to cap a vast, long-neglected deposit of the pesticide DDT on the ocean floor off Southern California got its first public airing Tuesday."
Source: AP, 06/24/2009
Agreement Reached on Fort Meade Clean-Up
The Army has finally agreed to an enforceable timetable for cleaning up Superfund sites at Fort Meade in Maryland.
Source: Baltimore Sun, 06/23/2009
"EPA to Test 10,000 Indiana Yards for Lead from Ancient Factories"
"At least 10,000 more properties in residential neighborhoods of Evansville will be tested for lead and arsenic contamination in the soil of their yards" from foundries going back to the 1880s.
Source: ENS, 06/16/2009
"EPA Downplays Dredging Risk to Bay City Water Supply"
"Nearly a month after the onset of a navigational dredging project in the Saginaw River that some worry will send dioxin-contaminated sediments downstream toward the intakes for Bay City’s water supply, EPA officials responded to citizen concerns by announcing it would not test the water for the toxin."
Source: Michigan Messenger, 06/16/2009
"Stimulus Money Put To Work at Superfund Sites"
As part of the economic stimulus package, EPA plans to spend $600 million -- double what it usually spends -- on cleaning up contaminated industrial waste sites.
Source: NPR, 05/27/2009
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