Week of September 26
 
Hawthorne prepares to take action at Pan Chemical site
NorthJersey.com
... has failed to maintain the property in a state of good order, failed to bring about any redevelopment of the site and failed to follow New Jersey DEP mandates ordering environmental remediation of the site," the resolution said. ...

Trichloroethylene Causes Human Cancer, Harms Fetal Development ...
The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA)
... assessment of a chemical's hazard is not just that it is hazardous but what ... Technical issues often limit the extent of groundwater cleanup that is ...

Proven: Army Munitions ARE Bad For You | Military Advantage Blog ...
By Ben Krause
This study proves certain munitions and smoke are impacting the environment. But that's not it. The report could also support certain disability claims.

EMLab P&K Sponsors Infection Control Conference by Environmental Contractors ...
Environmental Expert (press release)
San Bruno, CA, September 27, 2011 -- EMLab P&K announces sponsorship of the educational conference on “Infection Control and the Changing Environmental Remediation Landscape.” The conference is hosted by the Environmental Contractors Association (ECA) ...

In flooding's wake, mold becomes potential health threat
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, and state Department of Health and state Department of Environmental Protection do not test for mold or provideremediation services. “What FEMA has to offer is advice; we don't have any specific funding for ...

Feds sue refinery for cleanup costs
Topeka Capital Journal
“We are working diligently to clean up any remaining issues,” Eames said, ... didn't meet requirements for hazard assessments and violated prevention ...

Orica releases mercury vapour
Sydney Morning Herald
... the deputy chief executive of environment protection and regulation at the OEH. ''The exceedance was linked to an incident involving the soil remediation process." The Herald reported last month the company had suspended remediation works on the ...

EPA doing cleanup in Little Chute
Fox11online.com
And now the vapors from the soil and ground water make this a health hazard. ... Neighbors were just notified of the cleanup effort. ...

Feds, companies reach deal on Wash. uranium mine
MyNorthwest.com
The 350-acre site was designated a potential hazard to people's health in 2006 due ... LLC _ will cover most of the cleanup expenses and will reimburse the ...

One man's battle against big oil
Lansing State Journal
GREG DERUITER/Lansing State Journal A worker is shown in the cleanup area of ... pipes that transport fuels and other hazard materials across the country. ...

 
Week of September 19
 
Barrister Sultan Choudary for demilitarization of Kashmir, PaK
GreaterKashmir.com (press release)
Srinagar, Sep 18: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Administered Kashmir and leader of ruling Pakistan Peoples Party [PPP] Barrister Sultan Mehmood Choudary Sunday demanded demilitarization of both sides of Line of Control “for facilitating hassle-free ...

Coastal Cleanup a big draw
Santa Monica Daily Press
The small pieces of plastic and other materials that wash into the ocean through waterways and storm drains can kill wildlife, harm industries that rely on the ocean and even become a hazard to human health. Last year, 14131 volunteers in Los Angeles...

What I Do: Biohazard tech Carly Lincoln cleans crime scenes
Wisconsin State Journal
But when crimes or unattended deaths occur, I'm there around the clock to clean up the scene properly and to dispose of the biohazard waste correctly. My fiancé and company co-owner, Judd Sweitzer, served in the Army for 20 years including two combat ...

PA DEP Reorganizes to Improve Efficiency, Transparency
MarketWatch (press release)
A new bureau of Environmental Cleanup and Brownfields will be created under the Office of Waste, Air, Radiation and Remediation. This new bureau will house all aspects of site cleanup and will more closely mirror the structure used in environmental ...

Scottish nuclear leak 'will never be completely cleaned up'
The Guardian
At a board meeting in Stirling on Tuesday, the Scottish government's environmentalwatchdog opted to encourage remediation "as far as is practically achievable" but to abandon any hope of removing all the radioactive pollution from the seabed. ...

Decades after war, millions of unexploded US bombs haunt Laos
iWatch News (blog)
Most of the bombs were cluster munitions designed to spread damage by scattering arsenals of smaller bomblets. Nearly a third of those bombs never exploded. Last week, delegates from dozens of countries convened in Beirut, Lebanon, to push other ...

Many workers will stick around for cleanup
Anniston Star
... incinerator workers to clean up, dismantle and raze the site buildings. ... as reporters peered at the empty shells of the last mustard munitions. ...

Incinerator has finished its job
Daily Home Online
... the facility's three furnaces disposed of 142428 munitions containing GB nerve agent ... Cleanupand closure activities could take as long as two years. ...

Lockheed Martin to Continue Clean-Up of Middle River Site
Patch.com
... naturally break down contamination in groundwater caused decades ago by poor environmentalpractices. The aerospace corporation described its groundwater remediation plan during a community meeting Thursday night at the Marshy Point Nature Center. ...

Unexploded wartime munitions still aplenty in Finland's forests 
Helsingin Sanomat
The Germans, for one, detonated some of their ammo dumps during their retreat northwards in the Lapland War, which means that some unexploded munitions may have been scattered into the surrounding terrain. There are no mined areas in Finland, ...

 
Week of September 12
 
Does Navy depot pose a danger to public?
The Seattle Times
It's been eight years since Glen Milner first asked the Navy just how big an explosion could be triggered by an accident or an attack at its munitions depot on Indian Island. And it's been six months since the US Supreme Court struck down one of the ...

Time to End the Use of Cluster Munitions
Huffington Post
In April, forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi fired cluster munitions into residential areas of Misurata. Cluster munitions -- large bombs, rockets or artillery shells that contain many smaller submunitions -- are often used to attack enemy ...

Two decades of uncontrolled contamination
International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons
It is 20 years since the first major use of depleted uranium munitions in the 1991 Gulf War, which resulted in significant contamination in areas of Iraq and Kuwait. Two decades on and in spite of a global outcry against their use, the controversial ...

ENPRO Reports Majority of Wastewater Disks Successfully Recovered From New ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"The volunteers have been instrumental in cleaning up the disks and reporting sightings, which has allowed us to inform ENPRO and target our own cleanup efforts. We appreciate ENPRO's leadership in cleaning up the disks before they presented a hazard ...

Good news plus lingering concerns for Deepwater Horizon cleanup workers
EurekAlert (press release)
But it cites concerns that another group of potentially harmful chemicals did escape from the water and could create a health hazard for cleanup workers. The article, by C&EN Senior Editor Elizabeth Wilson, describes research showing that benzene, ..

Environmental cleanup is next step to new life for former gas station site
TribLocal
By Bob Goldsborough Special to the Tribune Today at 5:00 am Glen Ellyn officials are close to completing an environmental remediation plan of a vacant, village-owned property at a key intersection on the north end of town. The 1.35-acre tract at 825 N. ..

Court blocks Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment until Navy completes toxic ...
San Francisco Bay View
As of now, none of the parcels of the shipyard proposed for development have undergone a complete environmental remediation approved by regulatory agencies. The court's ruling blocks the City of San Francisco's efforts to immediately transfer ..

Feds add New Idria to Superfund list of toxic sites
Hollister Free Lance
"Therefore, it may be several years before significant EPA clean up ... for the US Department of Defense, which used it to make munitions and detonators. ...

Environmental cleanup begins on Dutton Lumber Yard site
Mid-Hudson News
POUGHKEEPSIE – Remediation work has begun to clean up environmental hazards at the former AC Dutton Lumber Yard site at 1 Dutchess Avenue in the City and Town of Poughkeepsie. The site developer, O'Neill Group-Dutton, LLC, is doing the work with ...

Mari inquiry: victims died 'for no reason' Polyviou says
Cyprus Mail
The 13 – seven sailors and six firemen – died when 98 containers filled with munitions confiscated from a ship sailing from Iran to Syria blew up on the morning of July 11. The containers, mostly filled with gunpowder, had been stacked in a single ...

 
Week of September 5
 
Calamityville cleanup nearing completion
Dayton Daily News
With the help of $3 million in state and federal cleanup dollars, city leaders and Wright State University officials hope to finish demolition and environmental remediation of the property by the end of the year. Both university and city officials have ...

Australia's cluster bomb conundrum
The Conversation
Every year, thousands of civilians, many of them children, are killed and maimed by any one of the hundreds of munitions (also known as “bomblets”) released by cluster… NAJ Taylor does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from ...

WikiLeaks' obvious truth
Aljazeera.net
In essence, Australia took a pro-active public role in promoting the humanitarian need for a treaty banning cluster munitions in all their respects, and quietly went about undermining what was actually precluded by the convention. ...

Munitions blast kills two children in Darfur: UN
Viet Nam News
KHARTOUM – Two children were killed and three others seriously wounded in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region when unexploded munitions they were playing with blew up, peacekeepers said on Tuesday. "Two children were killed and three others sustained ...

PRESS DIGEST - Cyprus - Sept 7
Reuters Africa
Reuters has not verified these reports: - Report by British military documents how island ran the risk of another munitions explosion from decaying explosives held near a residential area in Limassol district. - State run Cyprus Electricity Authority ...

WWII munitions still killing, stopping development in Pacific: experts
Xinhua
He told the "WWII Ordnance in the Pacific: An Unwanted Legacy" seminar that the dangerous explosives included munitions that were dropped or fired and failed to explode, as well as stocks ofmunitions that were abandoned on battlefields and at military ...

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Mission Network NEws (press release)
Cyprus (SAT7/MNN) ― The shockwaves of July's deadly munitions explosion in Cyprus are still being felt. This week before an investigating committee, Cyprus President blamed a "failure of the system" as the root cause of the blast that killed 13 at a ...

Pfizer's American Cyanamid Superfund site to release contaminated water into ...
MyCentralJersey.com
The state Department of Environmental Protection supervised the cleanup for about 10 years before that, he said. According to the EPA, the American Cyanamid site was added to the Superfund National Priorities List on Sept. 1, 1983, because hazardous ...

Final Anniston Chemical Shells Shipped For Disposal
Global Security Newswire
All remaining artillery rounds containing chemical warfare materials at the Anniston Army Depot in Alabama were transported on Thursday from storage bunkers to the installation's demilitarizationplant, the US Army Chemical Materials Agency announced ...

Shipwreck report casts further doubt on Boris Island
Kent News
The wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, which contains 1400 tons of deadlymunitions, has been grounded on a sandbank off the Isle of Sheppey since August 20, 1944, and is rarely examined for fear it might self-destruct and kill thousands of people....