Settlement reached to clean Idaho superfund site

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.

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EPA adds US Magnesium to Superfund site list

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has added the U.S. Magnesium site near Utah's Great Salt Lake to the federal Superfund list.

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Attorney: Ford settles NJ toxic waste lawsuit

The Ford Motor Co. has settled a lawsuit filed by residents of a northern New Jersey town over toxic waste dumped there in the 1960s and '70s.

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USVI backs plan to remove site from Superfund list

The U.S. Virgin Islands is endorsing a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to take an old chemical factory off a Superfund list of heavily polluted sites.

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Top court will review who pays for Superfund site

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide what share railroads and an oil company should bear of the cleanup of a contaminated industrial site in Arvin, Calif., near Bakersfield, that threatened drinking water supplies.

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Government and tribal representatives have released a plan to calculate natural resource damages from decades of Portland Harbor pollution, saying that high levels of contamination have been found in wildlife in the harbor, from salmon to river otters to osprey.

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Decades of industrial pollution in the Portland Harbor Superfund site have left high levels of contaminants in river sediment, an exhaustive survey concludes, posing risks to wildlife, fish and humans who eat fish from the nine-mile stretch of the Willamette River.

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The Environmental Protection Agency announced that $528 million in recently approved economic stimulus funding would be used to help clean up the sites in 28 states.

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NIAGARA FALLS — When Debbie Cerrillo Curry was asked what she saw when she scanned the almost park-like setting in what used to be her neighborhood, her response came in a slightly trembled voice. "Don't make me cry," she said.

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Two mining giants have agreed to pay Colorado $20.5 million to compensate for a legacy of polluted streams, fish kills and contaminated groundwater from decades of hard rock mining around Leadville, Colo.

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Now that the price of uranium has gone up to $136 a pound, at least five firms are eager to reopen mining in New Mexico. With Superfund sites still not cleaned up from the last go-round of uranium mining, the locals are understandbly reluctant to jeopardize the health of another …

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Though the dumping stopped more than a dozen years ago, no one is sure who will clean up the 26 billion pounds of hazardous waste from a Canadian smelter that has turned the reservoir behind Eastern Washington's Grand Coulee Dam into an environmental nightmare. The dispute has …

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Washington Governor Chris Gregoire is headed to Washington, D.C., next week. And she says reviving negotiations on cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear site is a top priority. Richland Correspondent Anna King reports. THERE'S A CONTRACT IN PLAY BETWEEN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, THE U.S.

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NEW YORK, Feb 8 (OneWorld) - A much-delayed U.S.

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Atlantic Richfield Co has agreed to pay $187 million to restore the upper Clark Fork River Basin, marking a milestone in the effort to clean up the nation's largest Superfund site. The settlement clears the way for a full-scale restoration of the watershed, where the mining indu …

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cleaned up contaminated soil on properties near an abandoned uranium mine in Church Rock last year after Navajo officials spent years trying to persuade the federal agency to do so.

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The Puget Sound region is getting an infusion of federal cash to help return the waterway to better health. The more than $24 million included in the federal budget will help raise the recovery of the Sound to national prominence, environmentalists said. "This is great.

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OUR VIEW: Rialto can't wait for the courts; it needs state and federal help to clean up groundwater contamination as quickly as possible. For Rialto's leaders, it's becoming apparent that the battle against perchlorate contamination is more than the city can handle on its own.

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Little by little, death devours the Duwamish:

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The True Cost of Superfund

Our society has often drawn the line between what is good for the environment and what is good for people. This is, however, a false dichotomy.

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IN the summer of 2005, around the time that residents of Upper Ringwood, N.J., began to wonder whether the skin rashes, nose bleeds and bronchitis that plagued their community were more than bad luck, the Ford Motor Company and the Environmental Protection Agency made a request:  …

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Despite prodigious effort, still 25% of Americans live within 3 miles of a Superfund-designated contaminated site... Moreover, 25 million Americans live within 10 miles of a site where potential human exposure to contaminants is not yet under control.

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Equality in America ~ Bush Trying To Kill Us All

Since the 1930's petrochemical companies have known about the serious negative environmental, health and cancer causing effects of many of their products.

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The White House has renominated three people for top jobs affecting the environment who were previously blocked in Congress because of their pro-industry views.

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There are so many instances of conflicts of interest within our government and this is a prime example of such.

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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is closing libraries around the country, saying it wants to cut costs and make materials more accessible by moving them to the Internet.

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Internal EPA Memo "Democratic Election Win Promises Restored Oversight"

This was sent as an e-mail to EPA employees. It reflects the concern on the part of EPA staff ,who battle the Congress protecting corporate interests, to do the job they are mandated, and committed to do, protect human health and the environment.

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American taxpayers will pay more than $1.2 billion to clean up after polluters at Superfund toxic waste sites across the country in 2006, according to a new analysis released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.

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Senate Democrats on Thursday accused the Bush administration of withholding key details about toxic waste sites that present risks of exposure to nearby residents.

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