Superfund

Meet The Man Who Lives In A Houseboat On The Gowanus Canal

Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Superfund, New York Real Estate, Brooklyn, Epa, New-York-Department-of-Buildings, NY Real Estate, Adam Kutzman, Gowanus Canal Houseboats, Gowanus Canal, New York News

One man's $500 million EPA superfund site is another man's home. The New York Post has an article today about the four houseboats currently docked...

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Health Risk Remains In Asbestos-Plagued Montana Town

AP | By MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Superfund, Asbestos Superfund, Health, Environment, Libby Montana EPA, Libby, Libby Asbestos, Libby Montana Report, Libby Montana, Libby Superfund, Libby Montana Asbestos, Green News

BILLINGS, Mont. -- A preliminary study of an asbestos-plagued Montana town indicates health dangers remain in some areas already addressed in a federa...

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Green News Report: March 29, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Co2, Epa, Arctic Ice Melt, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Electricity, Radioactivity, Fossil Fuels, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Contamination, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Arctic, Toxic Chemicals, Japan Earthquake, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Toxic Waste, Japan, Russia, Fracking, United Nations, Clean Energy, Canada, Shipping, Chernobyl, Rising Sea Level, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Germany, California Air Resources Board, Green Party, Forests, Deforestation, Massey Energy, Dolphins, California, Texas, Superfund, Protests, Angela Merkel, Hydraulic Fracturing, China, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Fallout f...

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Green News Report: January 25, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Bees, Oil, Natural Gas, Wind Power, Co2, Cap and Trade, Pesticides, House of Representatives, Fracking, Australia, Gasland, Epa, Agriculture, Regulation, The Oscars, Green News Report, Biotech, Coal, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Pipeline, Offshore Drilling, Drought, Rising Sea Level, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Mountaintop Removal, Fossil Fuels, Colony Collapse Disorder, Big Oil, Greenhouse Gases, California Air Resources Board, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Usda, Global Warming Deniers, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Interior Department, California, White House Oil Spill Commission, Biofuels, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Texas, Subsidies, Toxic Chemicals, Superfund, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Cells, BRAD BLOG, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Sustainability, Food, Fox News, Hydraulic Fracturing, BP Oil Spill, Extreme Weather, Upper Big Branch Mine, China, Green News

IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Getting "Gas"-y at the Oscars; Freakin' Frackin'; Natural disasters are expensive; Catastrophic flooding, drought around the world.

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The Joy of Dirty Destinations

Paul Robert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tourism, Pollu-Tourism, Montana, Ruhr, Germany, Travel, Pollution, Eco-Tourism, Butte, Superfund Sites, Superfund, Travel News

Rather than polluting the sky to catch a breath of fresh air in some rain forest, maybe we should discover the joy of dirt. You could call it the opposite of eco-tourism; pollu-tourism. Take Butte, Montana.

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Media Contributes to Victim Mentality as Gulf Struggles

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Benzene, Epa, Air Quality, Superfund, Bp, Toluene, Barataria Bay, Environment, Science, BP Oil Spill, Media, Oscha, Niosh, TAGA Route, Youtube, Toxic-Waste, Atakapa, Media News

One of the most important issues facing coastal residents is air quality. Journalists have a responsibility to examine the science and the public has a responsibility to learn more about their environment.

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Obama, EPA To Reimpose Superfund Tax On Oil And Chemical Companies

Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green News, Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund, Gulf Oil Spill, Superfund Tax, Green News

There is no question that the Superfund program, first established 30 years ago, is facing a budget crunch. For 15 years, the federal government impos...

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Chicago Waste Dump Added To EPA Superfund List

AP | BY KAREN HAWKINS and JIM SUHR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund, Illinois, Lake Calumet Cluster, Epa, Chicago, Chicago News

CHICAGO — The Environmental Protection Agency has added a cluster of waste-disposal sites in Chicago and a former copper smelter in southern Ill...

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Gowanus Canal Gets EPA Superfund Status, Despite Bloomberg's Objections

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Contamination, Superfund, Mayor Bloomberg, Water Pollution, Brooklyn, Michael Bloomberg, Epa, Cleanup, New York City, New York, Gowanus Canal, New York News

NEW YORK — For at least 120 years, city officials have been promising to do something about the oily, smelly mess that is the Gowanus Canal. No...

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Is Your Baby Crawling On Carpet Made Of Coal Ash?

Deirdre Imus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Superfund Polluter Pays Act, H.R. 832, Superfund Sites, Coal-Fired Power Plant, Environmental Health, Mercury, Coal Ash, Birth Defects, Love Canal, Pcbs, Pollution, Children's Health, Superfund, Heavy Metals, Cercla, Green News

Corporations need to take economic and social responsibility for their business practices. Environmental pollution is a major health threat with enormous economic consequences.

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Justice or Just a Step?

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nigeria, Superfund, Chevron, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Shell Oil, Green News

Powerful, wealthy global oil companies routinely partner with repressive or corrupt regimes, and then blame the local government or its local partners.

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Green News Report - May 19, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Green, Green News, Environmental Protection Agency, Superfund, Green News Report, Justice Department, CAFE Standards, President Obama, Green Living, Green News

In Today's Audio Report: One step forward and two steps back for Obama and the Democrats -- the changing political climate of climate change politics....

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50 EPA Cleanup Sites To Get Stimulus Money

AP | HILARY RUSS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, Superfund Sites, Superfund, Water, Pollution, Green Stimulus, New Bedford-Massachusetts, Minneapolis-Minnesota, Omaha-Missouri, Evansville-Indiana, Green News

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — For decades, the New Bedford Harbor was a dumping ground for industrial metals and other contaminants. But now that harbor ...

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The F Word: No Solar and No Clean-up

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Grittv, Flanders, Dod, Solar Energy, Superfund, Epa, Green News

I say it's time for some departmental renaming. What do you call a Defense Department that makes you sicker and an environmental protection agency that can't?

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Banking Superfund Starts To Take Shape

Portfolio | Jeffrey Cane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Superfund, Business News

The three biggest banks in the nation--Citigroup, Bank of America, and J.P. Morgan Chase--have agreed on the structure of a $75 billion fund intended ...

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Enviros Hit Dem Senator For Siding With 'Poop Polluters'

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, Superfund, Politics News

Environmental groups typically allied with Democrats are taking aim at centrist Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), accusing her of doing the bidding of Ar...

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