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"President Barack Obama's top environmental adviser urged the natural gas industry on Tuesday to disclose the chemicals it uses in drilling, warning that the development of massive U.S. shale gas reserves could be held back otherwise.""Obama Aide Urges Listing Of Gas-Drilling Chemicals"
Reuters, 03/11/2010
Congressional investigators want to know why the Marines for years failed to provide documents about benzene in Camp Lejeune's drinking water to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry."Lejeune Water Probe: Did Marine Corps Hide Benzene Data?"
McClatchy, 03/10/2010
"Bipartisan legislation that promises the largest federal investment ever to clean up the Great Lakes -- $650 million annually for the next five years -- has been introduced in the Senate and in the House to applause from environmental groups.""Bipartisan Great Lakes Restoration Bill Wins Environmental Support"
ENS, 03/10/2010
"The Supreme Court declined today to review a lower court's ruling prohibiting U.S. EPA from suspending normal emissions standards for major pollution sources during "startup, shutdown and malfunction" (SSM) periods.""Supreme Court Won't Review Decision That Closed EPA Emissions 'Loophole'"
Greenwire, 03/09/2010
"The top U.S. environmental regulator said she was 'very concerned' about fluids blamed by some for polluting water supplies near sites where drillers use them to extract natural gas from shale deposits.""US EPA Chief Concerned About Gas Drilling Fluids"
Reuters, 03/09/2010
"More than a year after a Tennessee coal ash spill created one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in United States history, the problem is seeping into several other states.""In Aftermath of Ash Spill, a New Round of Challenges"
AP, 03/08/2010
"Environmental activists filed suit Tuesday against the poultry giant Perdue Farms and an Eastern Shore farm where Perdue chickens are raised, contending that the farm is polluting the Chesapeake Bay with manure-laden runoff.""Perdue, Poultry Farm Sued for Polluting Chesapeake Bay"
Wash Post, 03/04/2010
EPA added Brooklyn's long-polluted Gowanus Canal to the Superfund National Priority List -- along with nine other sites. The designation means that EPA will oversee the cleanup. New York City Mayor Bloomberg had been pushing for a city-run cleanup.EPA Adds NY's Gowanus Canal, 9 Other Sites, to Superfund List
AP, 03/03/2010
"The U.S. arm of chemical giant LyondellBasell is in negotiations to settle its environmental cleanup liabilities — which include the Kalamazoo River Superfund site — with the U.S. government, according to a company spokesman.""Company Seeks To Settle River-Cleanup Liability"
Kalamazoo Gazette, 03/02/2010
"Animal manure, a byproduct as old as agriculture, has become an unlikely modern pollution problem, scientists and environmentalists say.""Manure Becomes Pollutant as Its Volume Grows Unmanageable"
Wash Post, 03/01/2010
"The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a petition from farm worker and public health advocates to ban pesticide spraying near schools, hospitals and child care centers.""'Pesticide Drift' Eluding Efforts To Combat It"
NPR, 03/01/2010
A deliberately caused oil spill of some 660,000 gallons in Northern Italy snaked down the Po River and reached the province of Parma raising fears of contamination in a farm district that produces Italy's famed prosciutto and parmesan cheese."Oil Spill Threatens 'Ecological Disaster' in Italy"
AP, 02/26/2010
"At least 31 more coal-ash impoundments across the country -- including two in West Virginia -- have been found to have polluted nearby groundwater, wetlands and streams, according to a report issued Wednesday by two national environmental groups. The report brings to more than 100 the total number of sites where coal-ash disposal has been linked to contamination of water supplies with toxic pollutants including arsenic, cadmium and selenium.""Coal-Ash Sites Polluting Water, Report Says"
Charleston Gazette, 02/25/2010
"The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee said on Thursday it was investigating the potential impact of hydraulic fracturing on the environment and human health.""House Committee Investigates Drilling Practice"
Reuters, 02/19/2010
"State and federal officials were, at one point, looking at almost a complete loss of support from Asarco for projects to clean up contaminated sites. Then, a dramatic recovery of copper prices lead to benefits for Tacoma, Everett, and elsewhere in the state.""Asarco's Unlikely Boon To the Environment"
Crosscut, 02/19/2010
