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Companies Pay $40 Million in Superfund Site Settlement

December 29, 2016December 29, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Nearly two dozen companies will pay more than $40 million to clean up a superfund site in Rhode Island after disposing hazardous waste at the site, which environmental regulators say contaminated the soil, groundwater and surface water.

Site Owners Can Save — and Make — Money with ‘Greener’ Superfund Cleanups

September 12, 2016December 5, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Green Superfund site cleanups bring economic benefits to site owners and the surrounding businesses.

Schneider Electric Fined $6.8M in Largest-Ever Superfund Cleanup Penalty

May 5, 2016October 17, 2019 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Schneider Electric has been hit with a $6.8 million penalty for alleged environmental violations — the largest-ever stipulated penalty for cleanup of a Superfund site and the third largest overall in EPA history.

Superfund Site Funding, Cleanup Trends

October 28, 2015October 29, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Annual federal appropriations to the EPA’s Superfund program have declined, from about $2 billion in 1999 to about $1.1 billion in 2013, according to a report from the US Government Accountability Office. The study also finds EPA site-specific cleanup spending on remedial cleanup activities at nonfederal National Priorities List (NPL) ... Read more »

Exxon, BP, 10 Others Pay $3.5M, Clean Up Hazardous Waste at Superfund Site

October 21, 2015October 22, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

ExxonMobil, BP, DuPont and Veolia are among the 12 private parties that will pay more than $3.5 million as part of a settlement with the EPA related to the Metro Container Superfund Site in Trainer, Pennsylvania. The 12 settling parties will pay an estimated $2.5 million for the investigation and ... Read more »

Remediation Pilot Eliminates Nearly 100% of PCE at Superfund Site

August 10, 2015August 10, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A pilot test has successfully eliminated 96 percent to 100 percent of perchloroethene (PCE) at a Superfund site in North Carolina. AST Environmental, working with AECOM in Statesville, North Carolina completed an angle-injected BOS 100 pilot test at a former textiles facility where the toxic chemical was used in a ... Read more »

Superfund-Site-Turned-Solar-Farm Wins EPA Award

August 3, 2015July 31, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A former Superfund site in New Jersey remade as a solar power farm has received the first-ever EPA Region 2 Excellence in Site Reuse Award. The award recognizes Brick Township’s reuse of a former landfill site to create a solar panel array with 24,000 solar panels that supplies electricity to ... Read more »

Remediation Begins at Blackburn and Union Privileges Superfund Site

May 18, 2015January 9, 2018 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Work to excavate and remove contaminated soil at the Blackburn and Union Privileges Superfund Site in Walpole, Massachusetts has begun. Over the next two months, workers will excavate contaminated soil and replace it with clean fill. As the soil gets excavated, it will be loaded onto trucks and transported off-site ... Read more »

TerraTherm to Clean Up Superfund Chemical Contamination

April 29, 2015April 28, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Environmental remediation company TerraTherm has been awarded a $6.9 million contract to clean up chemical contamination at the Spectron Superfund site. The site is located about 6 miles north of the Town of Elkton, Cecil County, Maryland. TerraTherm will use its patented form of thermal conductive heating to heat soil ... Read more »

EPA Proposes Removing Most of Fulton, NY Site from Superfund List

February 12, 2015February 11, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

After cleaning up more than 10,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and about 9 million gallons of contaminated groundwater, the EPA is proposing to remove a portion of the Fulton Terminals Superfund site, located in Fulton, New York, from the federal Superfund list of the most contaminated hazardous waste sites. ... Read more »

SCS Engineers Consult on Superfund Site Redevelopment

January 12, 2015January 9, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Waste and environmental consulting engineering firm SCS Engineers has been selected by the city of Norwalk, California to provide consulting services for a Phase II Environmental Site Assessment (ESA) of a former landfill, Waste Management World reports. The closed landfill is a Superfund site. WMW reports the city is considering ... Read more »

Black & Veatch Manages Superfund Cleanup

December 16, 2014December 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Black & Veatch will manage the construction of a groundwater treatment system that will soon begin at the Smalley-Piper Superfund Site in Collierville, Tennessee. The EPA says land clearing and other site preparation activities are currently underway. The treatment plant building will be constructed this month, followed by the installation ... Read more »

Companies Pay $40 Million in Superfund Site Settlement

Site Owners Can Save — and Make — Money with ‘Greener’ Superfund Cleanups

Schneider Electric Fined $6.8M in Largest-Ever Superfund Cleanup Penalty

Superfund Site Funding, Cleanup Trends

Exxon, BP, 10 Others Pay $3.5M, Clean Up Hazardous Waste at Superfund Site

Remediation Pilot Eliminates Nearly 100% of PCE at Superfund Site

Superfund-Site-Turned-Solar-Farm Wins EPA Award

Remediation Begins at Blackburn and Union Privileges Superfund Site

TerraTherm to Clean Up Superfund Chemical Contamination

EPA Proposes Removing Most of Fulton, NY Site from Superfund List

SCS Engineers Consult on Superfund Site Redevelopment

Black & Veatch Manages Superfund Cleanup

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