Source: Rockhill Environmental/NECC Newsletter A landfill was issued violations by a state regulatory authority for an alleged failure to maintain their landfill gas collection system. The landfill also received odor complaints from neighboring residents. A lawsuit was filed by a neighboring shopping center, claiming a significant loss of business due to customer odor complaints. A second […]

Source: The Modesto Bee, April 9, 2011 By: Garth Stapley The government must have had its reasons, 40 years ago, for turning gently rolling land near a peaceful river bend into a dump. Maybe no one wanted it for anything else. It likely was cheap and available, and — nine miles east of Modesto — […]

Read here about a Texas site that has been added to the EPA’s list of Superfund sites.

Read here about an Indiana landfill that the EPA would like to add to its Superfund cleanup list.

Read here about a zinc site in Illinois that has been proposed by the EPA for addition to the Superfund’s National Priorities List.

Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (PA), March 1, 2011 Posted on: http://envfpn.advisen.com Eight more defendants in a federal lawsuit over a Western Pennsylvania Superfund site have agreed to pay about $1.4 million to settle the government’s claims against them, according to a proposed consent order the Environmental Protection Agency filed yesterday. The 1997 lawsuit involves the Breslube-Penn […]

Read here about how Kansas State University will clean a toxic landfill.

Is a California toxic waste dump causing birth defects? Click here to read article.

Acknowledgement to XL Environmental THE CLAIM A claim from the regional water quality control board (RWQCB) was initiated for the discovery of elevated levels of volatile organic compounds (VOC) in the groundwater at a garbage company landfill property of an XL insured. Disposal operations at the site had been ceased for over 20 years. VOCs […]