"Final Families Wait Out Mining Town's Last Days"
Residents of Treece, Kansas, try to go forward as they wait for buyouts at a Superfund site created by years of lead and zinc mining.
Source: Lawrence Journal-World, 12/14/2009
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"Taxpayers Could End up With Big Bills From Fox River Cleanup"
"If taxpayers end up paying only 1 percent of the cost of cleaning up PCB contamination in the Fox River, that could be between $10 million and $15 million. If the taxpayer obligation reaches 10 percent, the figure becomes $100 million or more."
Source: Green Bay Press Gazette, 12/14/2009
"Digging up the Past"
After decades of putting hazardous and toxic waste into the Parker Street Dump, the city of New Bedford Massachusetts built a high school and middle school on the site. Today, the city is dealing with the toxic legacy.
Source: South Coast Today, 12/14/2009
$1.79 Billion Paid in Record ASARCO Settlement
"As a result of the largest environmental bankruptcy in U.S. history, $1.79 billion has been paid to fund environmental cleanup and restoration under a bankruptcy reorganization of American Smelting and Refining Company, ASARCO, federal officials announced today."
Source: ENS, 12/14/2009
"Senate Climate Road Map Caters to Nuclear, Offshore Drilling Proponents"
"Architects of Senate energy and climate legislation reiterated their support for nuclear power and offshore drilling yesterday in an effort to garner the support of moderate Democrats and Republicans."
Source: ClimateWire, 12/14/2009
"New CDC Survey Tracks Mercury Levels in Americans"
"Mercury exposure in the United States increases with age, then starts tapering off when people turn 50, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found in a study released today."
Source: Greenwire, 12/14/2009
Developing Nations Walk Out; Climate Talks Suspended
"Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after developing countries withdrew their co-operation."
Source: BBC News, 12/14/2009
"Pentagon, CIA Eye New Threat: Climate Change"
"Global warming is now officially considered a threat to U.S. national security. For the first time, Pentagon planners in 2010 will include climate change among the security threats identified in the Quadrennial Defense Review, the Congress-mandated report that updates Pentagon priorities every four years."
Source: NPR, 12/14/2009
NJ Landfill Owner Payment of $1.8 Billion Largest in History
"The owner of the highly polluted Kin-Buc Landfill in Edison has agreed to make the largest environmental clean-up contribution in the United States, $1.79 billion, as part of a bankruptcy settlement."
Source: Newsroom Jersey, 12/11/2009
"Friends Remember Slain Mexican Activist as Dedicated, Honest Man"
"TORONTO - A Mexican man who strongly opposed the presence of a Canadian company in his hometown felt sure his activism would lead to his murder but was willing to pay that price to protest what he regarded to be human rights abuses, friends said Thursday."
Source: Canadian Press, 12/11/2009
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