NJ: "Polluters Rewriting Rules for Site Cleanup"
"Key committees writing rules for New Jersey's new program to clean up contaminated sites are made up entirely of the polluting companies and their contractors."
Source: Bergen Record, 05/31/2011
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MA Superfund Sites Still Toxic Nearly 30 Years and $1 Billion Later
The ugly truth in Massachusetts is this: after some three decades and $1 billion worth of Superfund cleamup work at scores of toxic sites, nobody knows whether they are still poisoning people.
Source: NECIR, 05/23/2011
5-Year Deadline Sought for Ridding NYC Schools of PCBs
"The federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, are both calling for replacing school light fixtures that are leaking PCBs in five years or less, putting more pressure on the Bloomberg administration to speed up its planned time line of 10 years."
Source: Green (NYT), 04/13/2011
"Better Cleanup Planned at Former Chrome Plant"
Neighborhood organizers won a settlement Tuesday that promises better cleanup of "green water" runoff from a former chrome production plant in Jersey City.
Source: NY Times, 04/06/2011
"New York Demands Fire Safety Enforcement at Indian Point Reactors"
"The Indian Point nuclear power plant is currently in violation of fire safety regulations and is seeking more than 100 exemptions from those regulations, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday."
Source: ENS, 03/31/2011
"PA Environment Chief Now Must Approve Any Shale-Drilling Citations"
"In an unprecedented policy shift, inspectors in Pennsylvania have been ordered to stop issuing violations against drillers without prior approval from Gov. Corbett's new environmental chief."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 03/31/2011
"Pittsburgh's Ash, Oak Trees Expected To Die Off"
"Woodpeckers are already very busy, digging emerald ash borer larvae out of the city's ash trees and loving it."
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 03/28/2011
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