Por: Orlando Sentinel Crime February 02, 2023
One of Central Florida’s most notorious pollution messes is a little more than two months away from a heavy assault by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Tower Chemical Superfund site, located in a once-remote area now quickly developing east of Clermont and just north of State Road 50, has been poked, tested, scraped and pumped with cleanup agents for decades. The primary contaminant, a chemical related to DDT called... + full article
Orlando Sentinel USA Crime February 02, 2023
A local company that brewed bug killer for the region’s formerly robust citrus industry used DDT as an ingredient. That recipe at Tower Chemical spit out an unwanted mess, including dicofol, another pesticide, and a nasty concoction, DCBP. The deadly, discarded stuff, all in... + más
EPA readies final cleanup of Central Florida’s Tower Chemical Superfund site | Orlando Sentinel
Gov. John Bel Edwards asks EPA to add Capitol Lakes to Superfund cleanup list | The Advocate
The Advocate USA Business January 12, 2023
A controversial chemical plant near LaPlace is pushing back against mounting pressure from federal regulators to reduce emissions of a likely cancer-causing chemical.The neoprene manufacturing plant on Wednesday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over longstanding air... + más
Denka tests method to reduce some chloroprene emissions, while EPA orders new monitoring | The Advocate
EPA says Denka wastes emitting likely cancer-causing chemical stored at site | The Advocate
Associated Press USA Health January 11, 2023
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the state’s claims for environmental damages, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced... + más
The Last Days of an Outback Town Where Every Breath Can Be Toxic | The New York Times
$6 million awarded in asbestos lawsuit against Ford, others | Associated Press
The Advocate USA Business December 21, 2022
Gov. has asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency to add the contaminated Capitol Lakes to the agency's National Priorities List, a move that would make the site eligible for federal cleanup funds. The letter was the last step needed for the EPA to add the lakes... + más
Louisiana's first daughter Sarah Ellen Edwards married; an inside look at 'magical' ceremony | The Advocate
Montana site fouled by copper smelter to get final cleanup | WPLG Local 10
ABC News USA Business December 05, 2022
TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- The German chemical company BASF will restore damaged natural resources at a notorious Superfund site where decades or pollution and illegal dumping caused vast contamination of the , New Jersey officials said Monday.The state Department of Environmental... + más
Drought-ravaged L.A. seeks surprising source of water: A contaminated Superfund site | Los Angeles Times
Pollution concerns about this Louisiana swamp were raised decades ago. A new plan could help. | The Advocate
Associated Press USA Business October 01, 2022
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A subsidiary of London-based oil giant BP agreed to finish its cleanup of a in Montana that’s contaminated with arsenic and other pollutants from decades of copper smelting, and to repay the U.S. government $48 million in response costs. Under a legal... + más
Why There’s Confusion Over Whether Plan B, Ella, and IUDs Cause Abortions | Slate
WPLG Local 10 USA Politics October 01, 2022
BILLINGS, Mont. – A subsidiary of London-based oil giant BP agreed to finish its cleanup of a in Montana that's contaminated with arsenic and other pollutants from decades of copper smelting, and to repay the U.S. government $48 million in response costs. Under a legal... + más
Montana site fouled by copper smelter to get final cleanup | Associated Press
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