International Business News - Cleanup http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Washington state is suing the federal government to seek a faster cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation, after nearly 18 months of negotiations failed to produce an agreement. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/wash-sues-feds-over-hanford-nuclear-site-cleanup.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:17:48 EST Shell Oil Co. has entered an agreement with the state Department of Ecology to clean up contamination at 83 current and former gas stations in Western Washington. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/shell-to-clean-up-83-former-gas-stations-in-wash.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:32:16 EST China faces a new problem with the tainted milk that has sickened babies and battered public confidence: How to get rid of the toxic stuff. It has been burned, buried and mixed into coal. One trash-hauling company dumped a load into a river, turning the waters a frothy white and raising fears about the safety of the drinking water. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/175228-china-tainted-products-milk-cleanup.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/china-faces-new-problem-disposing-of-tainted-milk.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/china-faces-new-problem-disposing-of-tainted-milk.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:40:56 EST Fort Wayne plans to use $7 million in federal funds to clean up potentially hundreds of abandoned and foreclosed homes, demolishing some and rehabilitating others. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081110/indiana-city-gets-7-million-to-clear-urban-blight.htm Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:47:16 EST The Washington state agency charged with cleaning up Puget Sound released an ambitious list of fix-its Thursday that includes buying up critical land, requiring conditional use permits for bulkheads and docks and setting up no-discharge zones for vessel sewage. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081106/wash-agency-releases-puget-sound-cleanup-proposal.htm Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:07:43 EST In polarized Lebanon, flaunting a political leader's poster can be enough to spark a gunfight. So shopkeepers on Beirut's al-Maamoun Street are breathing a little easier now that "poster disarmament" has been declared. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/150710-lebanon-poster-cleanup.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081012/billboard-truce-beirut-scraps-irksome-posters.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081012/billboard-truce-beirut-scraps-irksome-posters.htm Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:43:55 EDT The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a $53 million plan to clean up the Gilt Edge open-pit gold mine in the Black Hills. The mine became a Superfund pollution site after Dakota Mining Corp., the parent company of Brohm Mining, went broke in 1999 and abandoned it--sticking taxpayers with the cleanup bill. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081010/fed-regulators-ok-53m-mine-cleanup-plan-in-sd.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:08:25 EDT Environmental cleanup at the site of a former Lewistown lumber mill could carry a price in six figures or in excess of $21 million, the Montana Department of Environmental Quality says. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080904/mont-releases-broad-estimates-for-mill-cleanup.htm Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:21:56 EDT A company with a history of oil spills can soon resume pumping oil in Santa Barbara County. Greka Oil & Gas Inc. received an operating permit Monday from the county that includes several stipulations for drilling near Santa Maria. The order comes several months after the county cited Greka more than 140 times for health and safety violations and halted its operations. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/greka-to-resume-oil-pumping-near-santa-maria.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:44:39 EDT The state of Montana and the company that operated a lead smelter in East Helena have agreed on a $143 million deal for environmental cleanup. The agreement between the state and ASARCO LLC is subject to court approval. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/asarco-mt-announce-environmental-cleanup-deal.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:45:25 EDT The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has hired an Idaho company to clean up waste from oil shale research on the Roan Plateau in Colorado. The contract with North Wind, Inc. of Idaho Falls is worth $15.4 million. The company will remove 300,000 cubic yards of oil shale pile and move it to a new repository. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/blm-awards-15-4m-cleanup-contract-for-colo-area.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:57:13 EDT The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will study radiological levels at a contaminated nuclear testing facility in the hills north of the San Fernando Valley, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/epa-to-run-radiological-study-at-la-nuclear-site.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:14:39 EDT The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency wants to hear from the public about a proposed plan to clean up contamination at a 3M Co. disposal site in Woodbury. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/minn-govt-seeks-comments-on-3m-pollution-cleanup.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:30:59 EDT California has filed an $8.5 million complaint against Greka Oil & Gas Inc. for allegedly failing to clean up hazardous waste left from oil spills at several of its California oil fields, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080723/calif-files-complaint-against-greka-over-spill.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:00:48 EDT A massive federal effort to replace thousands of residential lawns in Idaho's Silver Valley because of mining pollution has been completed, the Environmental Protection Agency said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/epa-replaces-thousands-of-idaho-contaminated-lawns.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:46:35 EDT An international company has been contracted to help the state Mining and Minerals Division with the cleanup of abandoned uranium mines around New Mexico. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/nm-hires-company-to-help-with-uranium-cleanup.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:27:15 EDT The U.S. Department of Energy will unearth a significant amount of transuranic radioactive waste from the Idaho National Laboratory site, adding billions to cleanup costs but settling a dispute over just how much waste a 1995 agreement forces the federal government to remove. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080702/feds-idaho-disclose-outcome-of-talks-on-waste.htm Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:28:43 EDT A long-awaited cleanup of the Passaic River to remove a Vietnam-era pollutant has been approved and removal of some contaminated mud should begin in about nine months, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080623/epa-nj-river-cleanup-to-remove-dioxin-laden-mud.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:39:38 EDT With the state comptroller identifying a potential $3 billion liability and a moratorium on new projects set to expire in July, negotiators have been trying to hammer out revisions to New York's brownfield cleanup program, which gives tax credits to developers who clean up polluted sites for commercial re-use. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080623/negotiators-try-to-resolve-ny-brownfield-cleanup.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:02:24 EDT International Paper has completed a cleanup of hazardous waste at its paper mill in Franklin. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that the cleanup significantly reduced risks to human health and the environment at the 3,660-acre site. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080619/international-paper-completes-cleanup-at-va-mill.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:34:55 EDT