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- PSB starts utility poles probe (8/6/14)
MONTPELIER — The Public Service Board has started a statewide investigation into the use of a chemical to treat utility poles after advising Vermont Gas Systems not to lay pipeline near transmission lines
- State (CT) awards $3.8M for brownfield investigation (4/16/14)
The Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development awarded $3.8 million to 21 communities to investigate specific site ripe for brownfield remediation.
- Westport won’t close contaminated middle school yet (3/14/14)
WESTPORT — The School Committee voted Wednesday night to leave grades 6, 7 and 8 at the PCB-contaminated middle school for the next school year but to move ahead with plans for closing the middle school.
- Aroostook Band of Micmacs installs system to monitor mercury in Northeast (12/23/13)
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The Aroostook Band of Micmacs has completed the installation of a continuous atmospheric mercury monitoring system at its local office that will allow the tribe to monitor the impact that mercury pollution has on fish, other wildlife and humans.
- EPA finalizes Waterbury Superfund cleanup (11/26/13)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized the plan to remediate the Scovill Industrial Landfill Superfund in Waterbury.
- South Windham’s Keddy Mill added to list of Superfund sites (5/9/14)
A former mill in South Windham has been added to the federal list of Superfund sites for hazardous waste cleanup, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday
- Maine residents seek state help on arsenic in well water (4/14/14)
When Emily Roderick moved with her husband and two young kids into a Readfield home about 18 months ago, there was radon in the basement and bacteria in the well, but arsenic in the water wasn’t an issue.
- Pownal town to apply for grant to clean dam (1/9/14)
POWNAL — The town of Pownal plans to apply for an Environmental Protection Agency grant of $200,000 to clean up a former tannery hydroelectric dam
- Contaminated Windham site takes step toward Superfund status (12/11/13
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to add Windham’s Keddy Mill to a national list of hazardous sites considered the highest priority for cleanup.
- EPA may recover some money it spent to clean up Warren junkyard (11/8/13)
The EPA has reached a tentative settlement to recoup some of the $1.4 million it spent cleaning up a former junkyard in Warren whose late owner steadfastly refused to cooperate with the Superfund project. Nearly a third of the settlement will come from the federal government for surplus military equipment dumped at the site.