Por: Orlando Sentinel 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 the greater DDT family, was flushed into a pit dug into an old sinkhole that percolated way down to the Floridan Aquifer. The pollution, exacerbated by a burn pit, churned... + full article
Orlando Sentinel USA 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... + más
EPA aims to finally knock out Lake’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 27, 2023
The rare use of high-tech helicopter surveillance has led to federal pollution violation notices for a list of Louisiana oil and gas facilities, documents and officials say, with the inspections having targeted a wide range of plants throughout the state.The overflights using an... + más
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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
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
Orlando Sentinel USA Nation November 08, 2022
An industrial facility in Groveland using a cancer-causing gas has been classified by federal authorities as posing elevated risks to nearby residents and is scheduled to be the subject of a virtual public meeting Thursday. Under pressure from health and environmental groups,... + más
EPA: Racial disparity in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' | WPLG Local 10
EPA: Racial disparity in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' | Associated Press
WPLG Local 10 USA Politics October 14, 2022
NEW ORLEANS – The said it has evidence that Black residents in an industrial section of Louisiana face an and that state officials have allowed air pollution to remain high and downplayed its threat.The agency's 56-page letter to Louisiana officials describes early... + más
EPA says state agencies' regulation of air pollution may violate civil rights of Black residents | The Advocate
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