"Water Being Released From Former Mine Into Montana Creek"
"BUTTE, Mont. — The long-awaited discharge of treated wastewater from a former open pit copper mine into Silver Bow Creek in Butte has started with little fanfare."
Source: AP, 10/02/2019
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The Environment For Reporters Covering EPA Just Got A Lot More Toxic
"While the Trump administration is not known for velvety smooth relations with the news media, federal agencies are far more likely to ignore reporters than to officially scold them. Not the EPA. Reporters whom the agency deems to have misreported can expect to hear about it, and not just through a polite phone call or an email requesting a correction."
Source: Washington Post, 07/15/2019
"Mining Company Rejects EPA Order For Superfund Cleanup Work"
"A mining company says it won’t carry out cleanup work ordered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of a Superfund project in southwest Colorado."
Source: AP, 07/12/2019
"Trump’s Misleading Claims About His Environmental Record"
"President Trump made the case Monday that he has protected the nation’s air and water in a speech filled with cherry-picked statistics and misleading claims. And he failed to mention that his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord was undercutting efforts to address a fundamental threat to the planet."
Source: NY Times, 07/10/2019
Supreme Court To Hear BP Unit's Dispute Over Montana Superfund Site
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to a hear a bid by a unit of British oil major BP Plc to avoid a lawsuit by private landowners in Montana seeking to force the company to pay for a more extensive cleanup of a Superfund hazardous waste site than what federal environmental officials had ordered."
Source: Reuters, 06/11/2019
EPA Adds West Virginia Site Plagued By Chemical Dumping To Cleanup List
"A local company that once helped the West Virginia town of Minden thrive had for for decades dumped untold amounts of industrial chemicals nearby. Years after that coal-equipment manufacturer shuttered and the rest of the local coal economy fell into decline, those toxic chemicals remained."
Source: Washington Post, 05/15/2019
How Corruption Waged War On An Alabama Superfund Cleanup
"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — In autumn of 2013, a senior executive from a powerful coal company and a lawyer from one of the state’s most influential firms hashed out a strategy for avoiding a serious — and expensive — problem."
Source: Washington Post, 04/29/2019
Atlantic Richfield Plans To Spend Another $100 Million On Butte Cleanup
"BUTTE, Mont. — A former oil producer says it has spent more than $1.4 billion on the decades-long Butte Superfund cleanup and expects to spend at least $100 million more."
Source: AP, 04/15/2019
"EPA: No Toxic Releases At Superfund Sites In Flooded Midwest"
"Flooding in the Midwest temporarily cut off a Superfund site in Nebraska that stores radioactive waste and explosives, inundated another one storing toxic chemical waste in Missouri, and limited access to others, federal regulators said Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency reported no releases of hazardous contaminants at any of eight toxic waste sites in flooded parts of Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa."
Source: AP, 03/28/2019
"The Latest: EPA Assessing Superfund Sites In Flooded Areas"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it is assessing two Superfund sites located in areas that have seen overwhelming floods in recent weeks."
Source: AP, 03/27/2019
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