Source: http://content.usatoday.com, October 3, 2011 By: Douglas Stanglin A massive industrial fire at a chemical processing plant is sending plumes of black smoke into the sky near Waxahachie, in north-central Texas, The Dallas Morning News reports. The fire began before noon at the Magnablend chemical processing plant and quickly spread as a burning liquid. At one […]

Source: Statesville Record & Landmark (NC), October 4, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com The Statesville City Council approved a settlement plan with the federal government Monday night that calls for the city to pay $25,000 as its share of the clean-up costs of a site contaminated by materials contained in electrical transformers. City Attorney Eddie Gaines […]

Source: Los Angeles Times, September 30, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com One of the most widespread groundwater contaminants in the nation is more dangerous to humans than earlier thought, a federal agency has determined, in a decision that could raise the cost of cleanups nationwide, including large areas of the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys. […]

Read here about cleanup work that is set to begin on a Seattle site, the Duwamish River, ten years after being listed as a Superfund site.

Read here about a West Virginia company that has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a 2010 pollution lawsuit.

Read here about a Texas company that paid a hefty fine for a wetlands violation.

Read here about two New Hampshire companies who will pay $200,000 for Clean Water Act violations.

Read here about a Pennsylvania company that has agreed to a substantial fine for Clean Air Act Violations.

Read here about a Seattle-based seafood company that will settle clean water law allegations.

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Source: http://www.newbernsj.com, September 27, 2011 By: Drew C. Wilson A small patch of petroleum-contaminated soil beneath Havelock City Hall will have to be cleaned up for construction of a new building. A set of six soil borings drilled July 21 where an old underground fuel storage tank was once located detected the spots that had […]

Source: http://www.post-journal.com, October 2, 2011 By: Jason Rodriguez As far back as 1990, Widrig Avenue resident Dennis McCullough has been especially wary of poor weather. He said that his house is situated at a crossroads of city plumbing. McCullough said a 15-inch waste water line, coming down Hallock Street, turns onto his road, and flows […]