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Hidden Hazards: A Legacy of Neglect
Robert McCabe unmasked a failed environmental protection system on the local, state and federal level in Chesapeake, Virginia, that permitted developers to build housing on lands with serious pollution problems. In his first report, McCabe explained how in one subdivision, the lead contamination is so high that home buyers in part of the neighborhood will be forbidden to grow vegetables or to water their lawns with groundwater. Furthermore, their homes sit over an old dump site with high levels of underground combustible gas.
Tags: pollution; Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ); River's Edge at Quailshire; environmental hazards; lead contamination
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Oklahoma's Environment
A Tulsa World investigation of the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality -- a regulator of air, soil and water pollution -- revealed that the department "readily hands out warnings, but rarely fines offenders." This series attempted to evaluate how well the ODEQ was doing its job.
Tags: Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality; ODEQ; DEQ; Environment; regulators; soil; air; water; pollution; fines; offenders; business
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Toxin Data Kept Hidden
The Roanoke Times reports that "for five years, top managers at the DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality) withheld data and misled other agencies and scientists about the availability and status of that data. Many people were told that the data had been destroyed, was too old, or in an inaccessible format. The database, which cost millions in taxpayer dollars, sat unused in a safe at the agency. An EPA official summed up the importance of the database in a 1998 memo: Without this data, we will not be able to characterize toxic conditions in Virginia waters, which would limit our ability to effectively target monitoring and management actions."
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KVAL-TV (Eugene, Ore.) reports a local lumber company was polluting the Willamette River for years, and reporting its violations of state law to the Department of Environmental Quality, but the DEQ failed to act, Jan. 16, 1985.
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