"Sunburst Gasoline Cleanup Grows Bigger and Murkier"
It took a lawsuit by residents of Sunburst, Montana, to start cleanup of an underground spill of gasoline that took place 50 years earlier.
Source: Great Falls Tribune, 07/13/2009
Pollution
EPA: Most US Residents Exposed to Excessive Air Pollution Risk
While it does have limitations, the updated National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment offers risk estimates for each of 180 substances, and three separate combined assessments.
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'Carbon Black' Report Shows Impacts On Native Americans
By MIKE DUNNE
An effort to document the lives of Oklahoma Indians introduced reporter Vicki Monks to a story that begged to be told: how a carbon black plant affected the health of a neighboring Ponca Indian community.
Carbon black, made by the burning of waste oil, is used primarily to strengthen the rubber in tires.
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Coal-Waste Impoundment Database Offers Journalists a Tool
A cooperative effort of federal and state agencies, coal companies, and environmental groups, the database lists coal-waste impoundments in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
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"'Last Man Standing' at Wake for a Toxic Town"
Residents say goodbye to Picher, Oklahoma, a town undermined and polluted by mining operations.
Source: CNN, 07/01/2009
Florida Lets Sewage Sludge Foul Everglades: Critics
Environmentalists say Florida officials are thwarting a 2-year-old law banning the spreading of sewage sludge on the Everglades.
Source: Orlando Sentinel, 06/30/2009
Ameren Plans Huge Cleanup in Galesburg, IL
"AmerenIP hopes to begin a massive environmental clean-up at the former site of McCabe Scrap Iron & Materials Co. [in Galesburg, Ill.,] by September or October. Galesburg Gas Light & Coke Co. produced gas beginning in 1861 at the 3-acre site, with coal tar as a waste product."
Source: Galesburg Register-Mail, 06/29/2009
Contaminated Kansas Ghost Town
The century of mining that built Treece, Kansas, has left it a toxic ghost town. EPA says the residential areas have been cleaned up, but Sen. Pat Roberts is poised to file a bill to buy out residents if EPA does not spend stimulus money to do so.
Source: Wichita Eagle, 06/29/2009
"EPA Says Monsanto Mine Violates Law"
"Federal regulators said Thursday an Idaho mine that Monsanto Co. depends on to make its Roundup weed killer has violated federal and state water quality laws almost since it opened, sending selenium and other heavy metals into the region's waterways."
Source: AP, 06/26/2009
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