"Raid May Signal Turning Point For Waste Facility"
After years of complaints, federal agents raided the CES Environmental Services waste-processing facility in southeast Houston.
Source: Houston Chronicle, 08/10/2009
Waste
"Iowa Universities Will Not Alter Coal Ash Disposal Practices"
"Iowa’s three largest public universities have determined that their coal ash disposal method does not pose a risk to the public health, a decision some say was made without sufficient evidence or regard for experiences with contamination in neighboring states."
Source: Iowa Independent, 08/07/2009
"Watering Down Airport Waste"
"Three years ago, the Department of Homeland Security passed new regulations. If you're a regular flyer, you know them well: no more bringing your drinks on the airplane. It turns out that this ruling isn't just inconvenient for us -- it's also inconvenient for the environment."
Source: Environment Report, 08/06/2009
"History-Making Landfill Do-Over In Washington County"
"Hazardous 3M trash buried decades ago in Washington County is being dug up and will be reburied with a protective lining."
Source: Minneapolis Star Trib, 07/28/2009
"Sending a City's Garbage up in Flames"
"Back in the 1980s and 90s, dozens of communities across the US built incinerators to get rid of their trash. Many of them financed the massive furnaces with bonds they're just now paying off. And now that those debts are off their books, some cities are re-thinking whether burning trash makes environmental and economic sense."
Source: Environment Report, 07/22/2009
"EPA Plan for Missouri Lead Waste Worries Residents"
"For generations, people in Leadwood have lived near huge piles of dangerous, lead-contaminated mining waste. Now the EPA has decided the answer to the problem is to pile on more lead-tainted earth. To many folks, that makes no sense at all."
Source: AP, 07/21/2009
"Scavenging Hazardous 'E-Waste' for a Few Redeemables"
Discarded electronic devices from the U.S. and other affluent countries go to poor nations for "recycling." In Ghana and elsewhere, 11-year-olds may breathe smoke from burning plastic and smash hard drives with rocks to get at the metals they contain.
Source: Wash Post, 07/16/2009
"Toxic Waste Casts Cloud on Massachusetts Solar Co."
"Evergreen Solar Inc., one of Massachusetts’ rising green energy stars, is on its way to becoming one of the state’s top producers of hazardous waste."
Source: Boston Herald, 07/07/2009
"Coal-Ash Ponds Threaten Lives"
The EPA says North Carolina Has More 'High-Hazard' Sites Than Any Other; the Industry Calls Them Safe.
Source: Raleigh News & Observer, 07/06/2009
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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