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- Skowhegan’s Whitten Brook cleanup underway (10/30/13)
Removing pollution means threatened trout population may soon be swimming through downtown.
- State says Massachusetts firm will turn Warren wastes into jobs (10/28/13)
WARREN, ME — A Massachusetts firm has been awarded a contract by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to recycle 27,000 tons of fiber materials that has been stored in Warren for 14 years.
- $6M Vt. school bond vote to address mold problem (10/18/13)
CONCORD —The Vermont town of Concord has scheduled a vote next month on a $6.3 million school construction bond to deal with a mold problem
- Study: Closed Maine mine polluting water with toxic metals (9/20/13)
A Dartmouth study focusing on the Callahan Mine finds elevated levels of copper, zinc, cadmium and lead in the sediment, water and small fish.
- Waterville-owned lagoons site of DEP work (9/18/13)
WATERVILLE — Two wastewater lagoons reportedly containing sediment and heavy metals are targeted for remediation this fall by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
- Cranston sues landfill operator over wastewater discharge (10/29/13)
JOHNSTON — A lawsuit filed by the city of Cranston accuses the operator of Rhode Island’s Central Landfill of sending a stream of highly polluted wastewater to the city’s treatment facility.
- Settlement reached in cleanup of Eden-Lowell asbestos mine (10/21/13)
The owner of a former asbestos mine straddling Lowell and Eden has finalized an agreement with the U.S. government and State of Vermont to help cover some ongoing costs of pollution controls at the 1,540-acre site over the next 10 years.
- Exxon wants brakes put on state’s use of MtBE settlement for anything but cleanup (10/8/13)
CONCORD — Lawyers for ExxonMobil are appealing a $236 million verdict handed down by a Superior Court jury in April after a three-month trial over groundwater contamination caused by the gasoline additive MTBE, which has been banned in New Hampshire since 2007.
- Four companies bid to reuse Warren waste pile (9/19/13)
AUGUSTA — Four companies submitted proposals Wednesday to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection on how to reuse 27,000 tons of fiber materials that have been stored in Warren for 14 years.
- 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.