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"Obama's EPA Plans Fewer Toxic Cleanups"

The Obama EPA, like the Bush EPA, is cleaning up fewer Superfund hazardous waste sites -- saying the remaining sites are getting harder to clean up. Unline Bush, however, Obama is seeking to reinstate the lapsed tax on petrochemical companies that originally funded the cleanup of abandoned sites.

Source: AP, 08/10/2009

"Monsanto Rounds Up Support, Dissent For Idaho Mine"

"As it races to replenish phosphate supplies for its weed-killing cash machine Roundup, Monsanto Co. insists its history of polluting southeastern Idaho’s high country shouldn’t prevent it from digging fresh open pits here."

Source: AP, 08/10/2009

Toxic Vapors Seep from Ground, Threaten Baltimore Neighborhood

Fumes from long-ago industrial activity are still seeping into the homes of some Baltimore-area residents. Those fumes include cancer-causing chemicals like trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene. The site was one of the first Superfund cleanups, but the cleanup was not thorough enough.

Source: Baltimore City Paper, 07/23/2009

"EPA Targets Contaminated Alaska Mines"

With a push from EPA and some stimulus money, two contaminated Alaskan mines will be cleaned up.

Source: Juneau Empire, 07/22/2009

Navajos Mark Uranium Spill 30 Years Later

"Thirty years ago today, an earthen tailings dam near the United Nuclear Corp. Church Rock Uranium mine collapsed, spilling ninety million gallons of liquid radioactive waste and eleven hundred tons of solid mill wastes into the Rio Puerco. The spill contaminated water, land and air at least 50 miles downstream on Navajo Nation land in New Mexico and Arizona."

Source: New Mexico Independent, 07/17/2009

EPA To Push Hard-Rock Mining Cleanup Bonds

"The Environmental Protection Agency, complying with a court order, will develop a rule to guarantee companies that mine everything from copper to uranium will pay for needed environmental cleanup, not taxpayers."

Source: AP, 07/14/2009

"EPA Attorneys Criticize Obama Nominee"

President Obama's nominee for the top Justice Department environmental enforcement job, Ignacia Moreno, has come under fire from EPA staff attorneys for her previous work defending GE -- a major polluter prosecuted by EPA. Backers say Moreno was tough on polluters in a previous stint at Justice.

Source: ProPublica, 07/08/2009

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"Obama's EPA Plans Fewer Toxic Cleanups"

"Monsanto Rounds Up Support, Dissent For Idaho Mine"

Toxic Vapors Seep from Ground, Threaten Baltimore Neighborhood

"EPA Targets Contaminated Alaska Mines"

Navajos Mark Uranium Spill 30 Years Later

EPA To Push Hard-Rock Mining Cleanup Bonds

"EPA Attorneys Criticize Obama Nominee"

Enviros Have Rough Term in Supreme Court

"EPA Plan Targets Vast DDT Deposit Off Calif. Coast"

Agreement Reached on Fort Meade Clean-Up

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