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EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells
Yerington :: NV :: USA | about 8 hours ago
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Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time. But she can look through the window from her kitchen table, just past her backyard with its swingset...
Tags: Nevada, Earle Dixon, BP America, Yerington Paiute Tribe, EPA, Anaconda Copper Co., Yerington, Uranium, Anaconda Copper, Mining, Uranium mining, Environment, Actinides, Fuels, Teratogens
E.P.A and Gore seek to block passage of Senate Health Care Bill
Portland :: OR :: USA | about 13 hours ago
Credibility And, in order to publicize their attempt to block the legislation, they enlisted the help of the most trusted name in journalism and the man who has dined with Princes, Kings and Presidents, world traveler, and Head of the Environmental News Desk of Stoos...
Tags: Senate Health Care Bill, Congress, Mr. Gore, Al Gore, United States District Court, care bills, skin cancer, polar bears, Obama Care, EPA, Portland, Barack Obama, Presidents of the United Nations Security Council, Google, Environment
W.Va.'s Capito troubled by EPA response on permits
Charleston :: WV :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Rep. Shelley Moore Capito says she's troubled by what she heard in a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson. The West Virginia Republican met with Jackson Thursday to discuss delays in the mine permitting process in Appalachia.
Tags: EPA, Lisa Jackson, mining permitting, capito says, Shelley Moore Capito, Charleston, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Watershed cleanup mandates set
State College :: PA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Federal regulators told state and local officials Thursday they will be held liable for meeting new water quality standards necessary to clean up the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay. “The Susquehanna is the lifeblood of the Chesapeake,” said Richard...
Tags: million pounds, EPA, Chesapeake Bay, Robert Koroncai, Richard Batiuk, Cory Miller, watershed cleanup, State College, Susquehanna River, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Total maximum daily load, Surface runoff, Water pollution, Clean Water Act, Stormwater, Environment
Magnesium firm, feds battle in appeals court
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility Enter your Zip code to find news and events in your area Font Resize Special To The Salt Lake Tribune Denver » The longstanding battle between government regulators and US Magnesium over toxic chemicals released from the company's plant in Tooele County...
Tags: Great Salt Lake, EPA, Salt Lake City, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Pollution in the United States, Magnesium, Hazardous waste, Environment, Law Crime
Simplot Company fined by EPA for not registering pesticide facilities
Grafton :: Australia | 3 days ago
Credibility Simplot, produced three pesticides in 2008 but inactivated its registration in 2002 and did not register until 2009, according to an EPA order. Facilities must be actively registered with EPA to produce pesticides. An additional facility in Moorhead,...
Tags: EPA, pesticide facilities, Australia, Grafton, Pesticides, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Soil contamination, Agriculture in Idaho, Simplot, Disaster Accident, Law Crime
EPA offers grants for environmental justice projects
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Environmental Protection Agency has pledged $1 million to help Utah communities deal with environmental justice challenges over the next two years. "Our 10 showcase communities," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, "will provide lessons for how we...
Tags: EPA, environmental justice, Salt Lake City, Glendale Salt Lake City, Environment, Justice, United States Environmental Protection Agency
Toxins found in wetlands threaten to quash land swap
Long Beach :: CA :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility A tipster's recollection of a hazardous substance spill in Los Cerritos Wetlands in the 1950s has led to the discovery of elevated levels of carcinogenic PCBs that could derail a controversial proposal to restore the degraded Long Beach salt marsh, officials...
Tags: Long Beach City Council, EPA, land swap, Long Beach, Cerritos California, Wetland, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Long Beach California, Polychlorinated biphenyl, Environment, Los Angeles County California, Los Cerritos Wetlands, Orange County California
Rice field in Tainan County poisoned by chromium
Hòubì :: Taiwan | 4 days ago
Credibility A rice field in Tainan County was contaminated with chromium but none of the product reached the consumer, the Council of Agriculture said yesterday. Tests found excess level of the potentially cancer-causing material in 0.04 hectares in the renowned...
Tags: Tainan County, steel slag, EPA, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan, Hòubì, Hexavalent chromium, Soil contamination, Chromium, Occupational safety and health, Pollution, Environmental issues, Disaster Accident, Environment
Frisco plant exceeds new limit on lead levels
Tehrān :: Iran | 5 days ago
Credibility Even with no expansion, airborne lead levels around the 45-year-old vehicle battery recycler are among the highest measured anywhere in the country. As recently as last year, they came close to the Environmental Protection Agency's legal limit for lead...
Tags: EPA, lead level, Dr. Deborah Cory-Slechta, ones lead, federal limit, Dr. Bruce Lanphear, cubic meter, nonattainment area, iq loss, Frisco, Iran, Tehrān, Frisco Texas, Air Quality Index, Blood lead level, Lead, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Lead poisoning
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