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A southeast Texas industrial plant is scrapping plans to import and incinerate 20,000 tons of hazardous materials from Mexico, the facility's general manager said.
More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year.
A Wyoming refinery says it plans to fight the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's nearly $7 million fine levied in late September for allegedly dumping hazardous waste into a pond designed to hold storm water.
Environmental activists are trying to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from starting a daily 1 million gallon discharge of water that contains mercury, selenium and other pollutants into the same river where coal ash was spilled at its Kingston Plant.
Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream for a site still engaged in a $1 billion cleanup from a massive ash spill.
Businesses that handle some of Utah's most dangerous materials are being inspected less often because of dwindling funds to pay for the work.
Federal officials have reached an agreement with a Detroit company over alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at two oil recycling operations.
A bill designed to keep foreign countries from disposing their nuclear waste in the United States is taking a small but significant step toward getting a U.S. House committee vote for the first time.
A former Arkansas poultry company executive testified Thursday that he wrote a memo in 2005 warning of the environmental dangers of spreading too much chicken waste on farmland in certain areas.
Federal regulators told Congress on Friday that they have no power to stop Italy or any other country from dumping tons of radioactive waste in the United States.
Arkansas poultry companies claimed Wednesday that an Oklahoma agency could have gone to court long ago to enforce water quality standards in a sensitive watershed, but failed to do so until 2005, when it filed a federal lawsuit blaming the companies for pollution there.
An effort to ban the importation of foreign nuclear waste has been given new life with a hearing set for next week in Washington, D.C.
Frustrated by inaction in Congress, a growing number of states are trying to reduce the rising tide of junked TVs, computers and other electronics that have become one of the nation's fastest-growing waste streams.
Attorneys for Oklahoma and the Arkansas poultry industry traded barbs in federal court Thursday, disputing whether the companies knew for decades that over-application of chicken waste on farmland was polluting the Illinois River watershed.
Greenpeace said Thursday it has uncovered new evidence linking a major oil trading company to toxic waste that killed 15 people in Ivory Coast in 2006, and asked Dutch prosecutors to reconsider charging executives with illegal dumping.
About 50 medical waste incinerators nationwide will have to reduce their air pollution under new regulations announced Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
A British court approved Wednesday the settlement of thousands of claims against oil-trading company Trafigura Beheer BV related to the dumping of toxic waste around the Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan.
Pittsburgh City Council has passed an ordinance specifically banning public urination and defecation because they said other laws used to cite offenders sometimes don't hold up in court. The measure approved Tuesday carries a $500 fine for anyone who relieves themselves on public streets, private property or city parks.
Three people have died and an additional 17 required medical treatment after they were exposed to bags of a toxic chemical illegally dumped by a factory in eastern China, the local government said Wednesday.
Germany will investigate a 1983 report on a nuclear waste storage facility after allegations that the report was manipulated by officials at the time, the government said Friday.
The Utah attorney general's office said Friday it is not in negotiations with EnergySolutions Inc. to drop the state's objections to importing foreign nuclear waste for disposal here.
Oklahoma can't pursue monetary damages in its environmental lawsuit against a dozen Arkansas poultry companies because it didn't name the Cherokee Nation as a plaintiff, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a major blow to the state.
For generations, people in Leadwood have lived near huge piles of dangerous, lead-contaminated mining waste. Now the EPA has decided the answer to the problem is to pile on more lead-tainted earth.
An eight-state radioactive-waste-management entity plans to appeal a federal court ruling that said a company can dispose of foreign nuclear waste at its facility in the western Utah desert.
Necessity might be the mother of invention, but nastiness also played a big role in Curt Fournier's creation. Fournier, 34, developed the Powerloo and formed GreenDog LLC with fiancee Victoria Januszewski. It's an outdoor, handsfree flushable toilet for dog waste. The Powerloo sits just below ground level and taps into sewer lines. It's designed to be an environmentally safe and convenient way to dispose of dog poop.
Post office was $3.8 billion in the red last yearThe Postal Service reported a loss of $3.8 billion last year, despite a reduction of 40,000 full-time positions and other cost-cutting measures.
Gov't Wastes $98B in Taxpayer Dollars in 2009More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year. Among the reported waste:
Recent news reports across all spectrum's of news sources seem to be indicating that The President of the United States has rejected all of the recommendations of his National Security Advisers, all of which involved significant troops increases and has instead decided to direct …
North Mason Fiber: Environmental Stewardship Close to HomeOn a typical week, hundreds of tons of solid waste is hauled to Belfair and recycled into new products.
British households pour away £470 million of wine every year British households are pouring £470 million worth of wine down the plughole every year.
Congress Set to Vote on HealthcareHouse lawmakers were preparing for a historic vote Saturday on a bill that would re-make the U.S. health-care system, with Democrats seeking the 218 votes needed to pass the measure and hand President Barack Obama a key procedural victory on his top domestic priority.
Obama creates 640,329 jobs at a cost of $323,739.83 per jobFunds paid out so far = $83.8 billion + $52.1 billion + $71.4 billion = $207.3 billion $207,300,000,000 / 640,329 = $323,739.83 per job created
Stimulus dollars going to accused contractorsPresident Obama and members of Congress told federal agencies earlier this year to avoid awarding funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to contractors with troubled histories of work for the federal government.
Kentucky Association of Counties Audit Finds 'Lavish' Spending, Gifts and Extra Benefits"State Auditor Crit Luallen's examination of the Kentucky Association of Counties found $3 million in questionable and "lavish" spending over the last three years." This audit was released on October 29, 2009.
Late last night (Wednesday night) the President of the United States of America made an unannounced trip to Dover AFB to greet the bodies of 15 Americans who died a few days ago in Afghanistan.
Healthcare system wastes up to $800 billion a yearThe U.S. healthcare system wastes between $505 billion and $850 billion every year, the report from Robert Kelley, vice president of healthcare analytics at Thomson Reuters, found.
Projects in CaliforniaBelow are the "shovel-ready" projects the mayors of this state submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report. You can click on a project to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the project and vote on whether you believe it is critical or not.
Tracking Your Taxes: Millions Spent to Send Professors on Vacation As if the life of a college professor weren't easy enough, millions of taxpayer dollars are going to fund monthlong vacations for sightseeing scholars in Europe and South America, part of the $144 million budget provided for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Fraud and Waste Rampant in D.C. Health Care Program for AIDS PatientsMore than $1 million in AIDS money went to a housing group whose ailing boarders sometimes struggled without electricity, gas or food. A supervisor said she was ordered to create records for ghost employees.
Republicans for Waste and Abuse in MedicareMedicare Advantage, however, failed in its mission: prices shot up. Private insurers complained that they couldn't compete with Medicare for the same amount of money Medicare spends.
Tracking Your Taxes: Is Essential Air Service Really Essential?Here is another prime example of government waste and corruption. When you can print your own money, the sky is the limit.
Federal Highway Administration Urges States to Purchase Road Signs Announcing Use of Stimulus Funds, but some states prefer not to waste their moneyThe Great Depression had its red, white and blue "U.S.A. Work Program" signs and the ubiquitous "We Do Our Part" blue eagle emblems, which can still be seen in the credits of films of the era.
50 Examples of Government WasteBefore everyone dismisses this as a Heritage article - read it. The waste cuts across both sides of the aisle. In the race to spend money on earmarks the Republicans and the Democrats are neck-and-neck. This article points out waste and misuse of OUR money.
Ending all fraud, not just alleged ACORN fraudSenator Bernie Sanders discusses the alleged ACORN fraud versus the confirmed fraud of other entities receiving government funds. From Sanders:
Energy-from-waste powers US armyQinetiq say that the system, already in use on British navy ship HMS Ocean, has been "containerised" for US army use. The approach could see use in urban areas, reducing municipal waste volume by 95% while producing energy.
Coal Ash: 130 Million Tons of WasteWe burn so much coal in this country for electricity that every year that process generates 130 million tons of waste. Most of it is coal ash, and it contains some nasty stuff.
Attack on remote Afghan outposts kills 8 US troopsMilitant fighters streaming from a village and a mosque attacked a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight American soldiers and as many as seven Afghan forces in one of the fiercest gunbattles of the troubled eight-year war.
America Is a Toxic Dump (country of wasteful ways)we have become such a disposable society that we are one of the top garbage producers in the world, dumping an estimated 254 million tons a year, less than a third of which is recycled. That's enough rubbish to fill more than 82,000 football fields packed six feet deep.
California Government Theft of Funds uncovered AGAIN!!!The California Supreme Court has left intact a lower court's ruling that the state illegally raided money intended for local public transit projects, a decision that could leave the cash-strapped state on the hook for up to $3.6 billion.
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