Environmental Cleanup - Environmental Problems and Protection

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A group of 72 businesses, including household names such as Coca-Cola and Google, joined forces on Wednesday in support of deeper European cuts to greenhouse gases.They signed a declaration calling for the European Union to extend to 30 percent ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Philadelphia, Bakersfield and Fresno, California, are the most toxic cities in America, according to a new study that looked at air and water quality in metropolitan areas."Philadelphia doesn't have great air, but other cities have worst," said Morgan ...

General Electric said Thursday it will soon complete a 500-million-dollar toxic waste cleanup project in New York's Hudson river to settle a decades-old battle with US environmental authorities.The giant industrial conglomerate said it had informed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that ...

US, Boeing, others to pay $58M for cleanup at former Air Force base in Washington stateThe U.S. government and other parties have agreed to pay more than $58 million to clean up industrial contamination at the site of a former Air Force ...

EPA proposes $500 million cleanup for Molycorp Superfund site near QuestaThe operators of a molybdenum mine in northern New Mexico say there were no surprises in a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announcement of a $500 million cleanup plan for the Molycorp Superfund ...

FFAs FFAs involve a number of federal government agencies, and sometimes large private companies, coming to an agreement regarding the coordination of environmental clean-up efforts.

In a radio interview last week, outgoing New York Governor David Paterson announced his plans to eliminate the state's participation in the federal Superfund cleanup program. The proposal is one of several cuts designed to reduce the state's budget deficit and accommodate ...

While many continue to debate society's responsibility for the accelerated pace of climate change the world is currently experiencing, one thing is for sure. Superfund Sites are uncontrolled hazardous waste sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency for clean up under its ...

Leaky Underground Storage Tanks Underground storage tanks, mostly at gas stations, are a major contributor to groundwater pollution in the United States. Legislation Leaky USTs fall under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), also known as Superfund. ...

There are thousands of sites spread across our globe where groundwater supplies have been contaminated due to dirty factories, military installations and the dumping of toxic waste. Chemical engineer Michael Wong developed a gold detergent that is amazing effective at cleaning up ...

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Topic: Environmental Cleanup

Seventy-two firms call for deeper EU emissions cuts

Philadelphia tops list of U.S. most toxic cities

GE to pay 500 mln dollars for New York river cleanup

US to pay $55M for cleanup in Washington state

EPA announces cleanup plan for NM mine

Federal Facilities Agreement

Gov. Paterson Proposes Eliminating New York Participation in Federal Superfund Program

What is a superfund site?

What Is the Problem With Underground Storage Tanks?

New ways to eliminate contamination in our fresh water supplies

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