News tagged with 'Specific Contaminated Sites'

EPA is listing Libby, Montana on the final National Priorities List (NPL). The state of Montana designated this site as its highest priority for Superfund cleanup. With the addition of Libby, the NPL now contains 1,234 final sites, with an additional 61 proposed. EPA has already begun cleanups at the Libby site to addr

Dozens of protestors representing several public interest groups were joined by supporting members of Congress and concerned citizens at a rally on Capitol Hill yesterday to oppose the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear dump. In February, the Department of Energy recommended that over 77,000 tons of nuclear waste be dump

Residents of Herculaneum, Missouri have complained for months that the town's 110-year-old smelter, operated by the Doe Run Company, is polluting the area with toxic substances such as lead. Their worst fears were confirmed yesterday when the state health department released the results from an analysis of nearly 1,00

Last week a Washington, D.C. family filed what may prove to be the first of many lawsuits against the United States Army for its role in the toxic contamination of Spring Valley. The Spring Valley neighborhood was once used as a dumping ground for World War I chemical munitions. The suit alleges that the Federal gove

Connecticut health officials do not know what is happening to workers at Pratt and Whitney's North Haven production facility. Nineteen plant employees have died from brain cancer since the early 1990s, leaving the Connecticut Department of Public Health desperate for answers. Workers were given new hope this month, t

Sixty-nine Dover Township, New Jersey families will share over $13 million in a settlement reached last month with two chemical companies and a public water provider. For years, Dover families claimed that environmental contamination caused by Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp., Union Carbide Corp. and United Water Toms R

Residents of Tarpon Springs and Holiday, two west coast Florida cities, were informed last week that radioactive slag, a byproduct of the now defunct Stauffer Chemical facility, does not pose a significant health risk. Excess slag was used to construct roads and concrete foundations in the area. Residents were concer

Earlier this week the Stauffer Management Company began a two-week cleanup of a riverbank running along the company's Superfund site in Tarpon Springs, Florida. According to officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, riverbank erosion over the last f

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the territory of Puerto Rico seeking to block the U.S. Navy from resuming bombing exercises on the island of Vieques. The suit was filed last year after Puerto Rico's governor signed noise control legislation as part of the U.S. Noise Control Act of 1

The Loughlin family lived in their Spring Valley home for nearly six years without knowledge of toxic arsenic that contaminated the ground beneath their property. Their two small daughters played in the yard, dug in the flowerbeds, and ran through sprinklers in the grass. Now their mother has nightmares about what ma

In a major setback for critics of the United States Navy's use of the offshore island of Vieques as an Atlantic training facility, lawmakers decided this week that the Pentagon, not local residents, will determine if the Navy should stay or go. The House and Senate Armed Services Committee also agreed that the May 200

At the request of Congressmen John D. Dingell, D-Mich., and Tom Sawyer, D-Ohio, the General Accounting Office (GAO) has conducted a year-long investigation of "Formerly Utilized Defense Sites" (FUDS) with environmental contamination. "The Corps' work to date has principally focused on the cheapest and least technologic

Puerto Rico has banned the sale of meat from Vieques Island pending the results of toxic substance testing. Two-thirds of the 51-acre island are used for U.S. Navy training exercises. Officials are unsure how much meat is produced from livestock that graze on Vieques, which is just east of Puerto Rico's main island. R

A family is moving away from the Sydney tar ponds after being notified that their son, 19-month-old Locklan Fraser, has two times the allowable level of arsenic in his blood. Locklan is just one of nearly 200 children living near the tar ponds and old coke oven. These sites are now being tested for arsenic and lead b

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) held a public hearing on June 18, 2001 regarding the contamination of the former Stauffer Chemical plant in Tarpon Springs, Florida. ATSDR had been urged to further investigate the site after an independent agency ombudsman issued a scathing report on the Su