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Homeless South Africans complained they were being forced from the streets of Cape Town to make way for a host of star-studded, glamorous events surrounding next year's World Cup tournament. Complete Story...
The World Bank has agreed to loan India $1 billion to help clean the Ganges river, sacred to hundred of millions of Hindus and also one of the most polluted rivers in the world.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the first phase of a toxic waste cleanup at a north central Indiana Superfund site is nearly complete.
The U.S. Department of Justice says two companies and the city of St. Maries, Idaho, have agreed to clean up creosote left at the site of a former wooden utility pole treatment plant.
Expanded regulation of large livestock farms is among the recommendations in federal agencies' draft reports on restoring the Chesapeake Bay.
U.S. authorities have begun a review of a five-year study that found no ill effects caused by decades of military exercises on the tiny island of Vieques.
Washington state and federal officials announced a court-enforceable schedule Tuesday for cleaning up the nation's most contaminated nuclear site, ending more than two years of negotiations that followed dozens of missed deadlines.
The federal government plans to spend up to $3 million a year to demolish and rebuild uranium-contaminated structures across the Navajo Nation, where Cold War-era mining of the radioactive substance left a legacy of disease and death.
Federal contractors that were heavily fined for environmental and safety violations at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site will receive much of the $2 billion in economic stimulus money the government is spending on cleanup there.
A Superior Court jury says two chemical companies must pay Modesto $18.3 million to remove dry-cleaning chemicals from the soil and groundwater.
A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and removal of toxic sediments from river bottoms around the Great Lakes.
The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered chemicals to the site.
The Energy Department will spend $6 billion as part of President Barack Obama's stimulus package to clean up nuclear weapons sites at Cold War-era facilities, with more than half the money going to sites in Washington and South Carolina, a senior official told Congress on Wednesday.
Easter Sunday prayers were offered for victims of deadly storms that hit western Arkansas and the Southeast last week with signs of damage done by a tornado evident throughout St. Agnes Church.
Amsterdam unveiled plans Saturday to close brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in its ancient city center as part of a major effort to drive organized crime out of the tourist haven.
Washington state is suing the federal government to seek a faster cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation, after nearly 18 months of negotiations failed to produce an agreement.
China faces a new problem with the tainted milk that has sickened babies and battered public confidence: How to get rid of the toxic stuff.
In polarized Lebanon, flaunting a political leader's poster can be enough to spark a gunfight. So shopkeepers on Beirut's al-Maamoun Street are breathing a little easier now that "poster disarmament" has been declared.
The U.S. Department of Energy has revived a plan to salvage millions of dollars from radioactive scrap culled from old uranium enrichment operations in Tennessee and Kentucky.
Building the world's first full-scale uranium enrichment factory — a 45-acre monster that was the biggest industrial structure in the world at the time — took 18 months amid the race for the first atomic bomb.
A government campaign targeting China's karaoke parlors will try to stamp out the selling of sex and drugs and the use of unlicensed music, the Ministry of Culture said.
A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally. Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned home on Tuesday after a week away to find that thieves had emptied almost everything the family of five owned, Tiffany McKinnon said through tears.
Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
For years, the Rouge River was among the nation's dirtiest waterways, little more than a dumping ground in the shadow of the massive Ford industrial complex that churned out cars from Model As to Mustangs.
$21.5 million deal reached to fix dirty creek in OceanportAlong the shores of Branchport Creek in Oceanport, residents swim, fish and boat in what looks to be an idyllic setting.
Baltimore's efforts to repair, cleanup Dundalk after breaking of water main on FridayBALTIMORE -- Baltimore City Public Works crews continued to work Monday in Dundalk, where a 72-inch water main broke Friday afternoon and flooded homes.
Cleaning up is a long-haul projectSam Fowler is trying to help the city's appearance improve, but he said it has gotten out of hand for so long, it can't be improved overnight.
City hopes to expand cleanupThe city of Muskogee is chipping away at the problem of yards that are full of junk and yards that are badly overgrown.
$600,000 grant announced to clean up contaminated sites in ElkhartThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted the County of Elkhart $400,000 and the City of Elkhart $200,00 in funds to clean up environmentally hazardous sites, also known as brownfields, Rep. Joe Donnelly's office has announced.
Earth Week? Let's Clean the RiverIt was a typical Saturday morning in South Orange's Cameron Field Park. There was sunshine, friends, bagels — and rubber gloves and heavy-duty rain boots.
Dumped vehicles to be hauled from NJ river[NJ] State police plan to haul submerged cars out of the Hackensack River next month in an effort to rid the waterway of an environmental hazard and prosecute those who abandoned the vehicles.
Scores of Australians flee new wildfire flare-upsScores of people fled their homes in Australia on Monday after strong winds fanned still-burning wildfires, triggering fears of new destruction after the blazes that already killed more than 200 people.
30-mile pile a symbol of FEMA delaysA 30-mile scar of debris along the Texas coast stands as a festering testament to what state and local officials say is FEMA's sluggish response to the 2008 hurricane season.
Cleanup pace in bay irks lawmakers -- baltimoresun.comCalling the Chesapeake Bay a national treasure, lawmakers in Washington expressed dismay yesterday that 2010 cleanup goals for the country's largest estuary would not be met.
Tarantulas, fire ants lurk in Texas floodwatersTarantulas, fire ants, and venemous snakes make clearing away flood debris left by hurricane Dolly.
Yellow smoke sparks evacuation of Tenn. siteWorkers have been evacuated from a former uranium enrichment plant in Tennessee after yellow smoke was seen coming out of a ventilation stack.
The Columbus Dispatch : Feds to pay Ohio $13.75 million for Fernald cleanupRadioactive waste left in the groundwater at the former Fernald uranium-processing plant in southwestern Ohio could linger for a century, state officials estimate.
North County Journal | News | BRIDGETON: EPA presents plan to handle nuclear waste at landfillA plan to put a cap over the radioactive waste in the West Lake Landfill has too many what-ifs for some North County residents.
Hanford Cleanup: The legal recourseWe hope the U.S. Department of Energy is serious about its commitment to clean up the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. But the feds are leaving Gov. Chris Gregoire, Attorney General Rob McKenna and the state little choice but to go to court for results.
The Buffalo News: Citizens groups in Lewiston and Porter say landfill officials have ignored their concernsWhat happens when two citizens groups ask a lot of questions about long-standing issues at a pair of Western New York hazardous waste dumps?
STLtoday - EPA is asked to move radioactive wasteBRIDGETON — Community members urged federal environmental regulators Thursday to remove radioactive waste from a local landfill which they say is vulnerable to flooding from the nearby Missouri River.
Bridgeton residents seek action on radioactive landfillBRIDGETON, Mo. — Bridgeton residents are pushing for removal of a landfill that contains radioactive waste. The landfill has been in the north St. Louis County town for decades, and the Environmental Protection Agency wants to keep it there forever.
FederalTime: Funding shortfalls mean missed cleanup milestones for EnergyCleanup of some of the most contaminated nuclear waste sites in the country is behind schedule because of inadequate funding, experts say. While the Energy Department has been able to reduce cost overruns and delays through robust project management, overall progress has been st …
Hanford regulators criticize 2010 proposals | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia newsThe Department of Energy is facing a bow wave of unfunded environmental cleanup needs at Hanford that could exceed $1 billion in the 2010 fiscal year, according to the state.
Feds trying to clean up Hanford on the cheap | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WAWashingtonians once counted on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation being cleaned up in their lifetimes. Increasingly, it's looking like not even their great-grandchildren will live to see the day.
Risky eight-year nuclear clear-out complete - Scotsman.com NewsONE of the most hazardous tasks in shutting down the Dounreay nuclear plant has been completed after a painstaking eight years. All 1,500 tonnes of liquid metal have been drained from the 250 megawatt Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR), once the hub of Britain's fast breeder research …
New trials on seabed clean-up - John O'Groat Journal and Caithness CourierMOVES to employ robotic search-and-retrieve devices as part of the intended partial clean-up of the contaminated seabed off Dounreay are continuing this week with a new series of underwater trials.
Reactor cleanup making progress : Local News : Knoxville News SentinelOAK RIDGE - After years of technically challenging work, upsets and schedule delays, and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, government contractors are about to complete a major milestone at the Molten Salt Reactor.
Groundwater cleanup to speed up at HanfordYAKIMA -- The federal government is accelerating cleanup of one plume of contaminated groundwater at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site in an effort to better protect aquatic life in the neighboring Columbia River.
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