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Search results for "asbestos waste" ...
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U.S. Slow on Clean-ups
The Pentagon has resisted paying for clean-up of toxic substances from its former bases. Asbestos, perchlorate and trichloroethylene (TCE) have been deemed hazardous by the EPA and remain on lands previously owned by the Pentagon but that now house private families and schools. But the Pentagon has complained to the White House about EPA regulations and Bush appointees have responded by admonishing EPA officials, essentially creating separate and less stringent environmental standards for the military than for states, communities and private industry. Since 2001 clean-ups have slowed and an estimated 15 million acres of land remain contaminated with dumped munitions alone.
Tags: Military; EPA; contamination; toxic waste; military base closings; asbestos; TCE; Bush administration
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Left Behind; Time Bomb
In the 1920's through the 1950's two companies had been dumping asbestos waste illegally in a creek along the Mississippi river. Though both these companies are closed now, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has done little to clean up the area. Today this is one of the populated suburbs of St. Louis and community leaders suspect that a higher number of cancer cases are being reported from this area.
Tags: pollution; asbestos waste; Missouri Department of Natural Resource; US Environmental Protection Agency; Maline Creek; CertainTeed Plant; GAF Corporation Plant; Bellefontaine
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No title (id: 13074)
After nearly three years of work and $19 million, the former White Chemical Plant in Newark still looks like a toxic waste site, one of the 107 in New Jersey that were supposed to be cleaned up under the ambitious federal Superfund program. This is just one of the Star-Ledger's examples of the mixture of litigation, bureaucracy and environmental zealotry that has poisoned the program. ( May, 1996)
Tags: Johnson Superfund's wasteful cleanups Environmental Protection Agency Asbestos Chemicals 8 pgs.
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No title (id: 5711)
The Sun (Baltimore) describes how the state of Maryland launched an effort to identify asbestos hazards in state-owned buildings to provide evidence for a $500 million lawsuit against asbestos manufacturers, but ended up wasting millions of dollars on a deeply flawed survey, Jan. 17 - 19, 1988.
Tags: MO Benjamin
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No title (id: 3147)
WBZ-TV (Boston) looks at the risk of exposure to cancer-producing asbestos in the town of Hudson, N.H., where Johns-Manville Co. dumped asbestos waste as free landfill for residents some 30 years ago, August 1980.
Tags: NH Johns Manville
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No title (id: 3118)
WCAU-TV (Philadelphia) investigation of city mass transit system finds it is wasting thousands of dollars and creating pollution by allowing buses to idle for hours; workers and passengers are exposed to asbestos through subway station ventilation system; also looks at deterioration of an elevated rail line, May 1984.
Tags: TAPE