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- VAG Reaches Agreement with Government (9/12/13)
A settlement has been reached between the Vermont Asbestos Group, Inc. (VAG), the State of Vermont, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding the VAG mine site in Eden and Lowell. Last week VAG President Howard Manosh announced that VAG had entered into a comprehensive Consent Decree with the EPA and the State of Vermont.
- Somerset Station foreclosure auction postponed again (7/30/13)
SOMERSET — For the third time this month, the Somerset Station bankruptcy foreclosure auction was postponed by the bank Monday
- Sanford considering solar project with Waban (7/24/13)
SANFORD — Could a capped, former landfill be a good spot for a solar farm?
- New England wins U.S. money to clean industry sites (7/16/13)
BOSTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says 11 communities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire will share about $3.6 million to clean up contaminated former industrial sites for redevelopment.
- The state’s brownfields face an uncertain fate (6/28/13)
These are dark days for brownfields in Massachusetts. In little more than a month, a critical deadline is set to pass that will effectively end a longstanding tax-credit program that has helped hundreds of cleanup and redevelopment projects come to fruition in the Bay State.
- Hazardous waste settlement leads to cleanups at 60 schools in Mass., RI (8/23/13)
BOSTON — A commercial waste handler in Rhode Island has agreed to pay a fine of $58,278 and to spend $252,152 to clean hazardous chemicals out of 60 schools in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
- Local business owner set to purchase Kearsarge Metallurgical property (7/29/13)
CONWAY — After decades in limbo, the superfund site that once housed the Kearsarge Metallurgical Corporation is poised for a return to the tax rolls.
- Somerset power plant auction to take place Thursday (7/24/13)
SOMERSET — The New Jersey scrap company with a mortgage on the sprawling Somerset Station coal plant on Riverside Avenue is ready to hold its foreclosure auction Thursday after postponing it two weeks ago.
- Chelsea housing dream turned nightmare (7/8/13)
A Somerville developer’s dream to turn an 18-acre brownfield in Chelsea into a waterfront loft community that would set a new standard for sustainable urban living has ended.