The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled four cases in Maryland in an effort to ensure the safe management of asbestos-containing materials in schools, according to an EPA press release dated July 2, 2009.
In separate consent agreements with the EPA,…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency crews are testing residential areas near W. R. Grace & Co.’s former insulation factory, Vermiculite Northwest, in Spokane, Wash., for asbestos, The Seattle Times reports.
The work was prompted by the recent declaration of Libby, Mont., as…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pledged at least US$125 million for the cleanup of asbestos at Libby, Mont., The Monterey County Herald reports.
The US$125 million will be used to speed the work of going door- to-door, raising tents over contaminated…
In a letter dated June 11, 2009, Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to consider complete removal, destruction and/or recycling of the asbestos at the BoRit site located in Ambler, Upper Dublin and Whitpain townships in…
The Citizens Advisory Group seeks more communication with the Environmental Protection Agency, as assessment of the BoRit asbestos area in Ambler, Upper Dublin and Whitpain moves forward, according to The Reporter.
The BoRit site, which was used to dispose of asbestos-containing…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, on June 17, 2009, announced the EPA has determined that a public health emergency exists at the Libby asbestos site in northwest Montana, according to an EPA press release dated June 17,…
The mid-Atlantic office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on June 2, 2009, announced that the Council Rock School District has settled violations of a federal law on the management of asbestos materials at Council Rock South High School, 2002…
The town of Orono, Maine, will receive US$200,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the form of a Brownfield cleanup grant, Mesothelioma.com reports.
The grant will be used in the Webster Mill redevelopment project. The Webster Mill site was once…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s nearly US$20 million grant to the state of Vermont does not include asbestos abatement, the Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center reports.
A portion of the money will go towards cleaning water supplies, while the remaining millions…
In a Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) lawsuit filed on April 21, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is improperly withholding a report on whether its cleanup in Libby, Mont., is adequate to protect the residents of that community,…