EPA’s Most Wanted Fugitives Featured on New Website
WASHINGTON, DC, December 10, 2008 (ENS) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is taking a page from the book of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is now posting pictures and descriptions of fugitive environmental lawbreakers or those accused of environmental crimes on a new website. The EPA’s Most Wanted site opened today at: http://www.epa.gov/fugitives [...]
Read More »Tight New York Budget Doomed Lead Poisoning Prevention Bills
ALBANY, New York, October 17, 2008 (ENS) – New York Governor David Paterson Thursday vetoed two bills that would have established a childhood lead poisoning primary prevention and safe housing fund and also given a corporate tax credit for lead hazard reduction activities. The bills would have cost approximately $50 million over a two year [...]
Read More »Washington Town of Skykomish Torn Up for Cleaning
BELLEVUE, Washington, July 6, 2008 (ENS) – Work to clean up oil contamination beneath Skykomish has resumed this summer, under an agreement between the Department of Ecology and BNSF Railway in cooperation with the town. A railway maintenance and fueling facility operated in Skykomish, located along Stevens Pass, from the early 20th century until 1974. [...]
Read More »Childhood Lead Exposure Linked to Violent Crime in Adults
CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 28, 2008 (ENS) – High levels of lead in the blood of fetuses and young children has been linked for the first time to higher rates of criminal arrest in adulthood. The strongest association between childhood blood-lead level and criminal behavior was for arrests involving acts of violence, new research has found. [...]
Read More »Copper Firm Asarco Will Cleanse Employees’ Yards of Toxics
HAYDEN, Arizona, April 20, 2008 (ENS) – In response to a demand for cleanup by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, copper mining, smelting and refining giant Asarco says it will conduct contamination investigations and remove arsenic, lead and copper contaminated soil in the adjacent Arizona towns of Hayden and Winkleman. In addition, the Tucson-based company [...]
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