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…
The Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Division of Waste Management is working to remove asbestos from a demolition site, which was a former electroplating facility previously known as Deena Products, Lex18.com reports.
The property is located on KY 51 North, just outside…
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…
Casella Waste Systems, Inc.’s Pine Tree landfill in Hampden, Maine, will accept waste (including non-friable asbestos) until Dec. 31, 2009.
Pine Tree is a secure, special waste landfill, permitted to accept construction and demolition debris, ash from municipal solid waste incinerators…
PDG Environmental, Inc., during the three months ended April 30, 2009, had a reduction of about US$4 million for asbestos abatement projects, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15, 2009.
The Company’s…
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,…
PDG Environmental says that contract revenues decreased by US$13.4 million (13.8 percent) to US$83.7 million during the year ended Jan. 31, 2009, compared with US$97.1 million during the year ended March 31, 2008.
The decrease was due to lower sales volumes…