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Sludging Along
U.S. agencies don't prioritize public in toxin-affected communities |
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28 Sep 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:27 AM on 28 Sep 2007 The U.S. Department of Energy found high levels of toxic hydrogen sulfide in the soil of suburban Versailles, Pa., and has neglected to inform local officials. The U.S. EPA was lackadaisical about cleaning up toxic paint sludge left by automaker Ford in Trenton, N.J., and disregarded complaints from the community. Luckily, those failures of the U.S. government to protect and infor ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, health, jackassery, New Jersey, news, Pennsylvania, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Mercury Retrograde
U.S. DOE backs off plan to sell neurotoxin to rest of world |
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03 Jan 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Mercury Retrograde U.S. DOE backs off plan to sell neurotoxin to rest of world Caving in to critics and maybe, just maybe, its own conscience, the U.S. Department of Energy has decided against selling off nearly 1,300 tons of mercury left from pre-1960s weapons production. Though the neurotoxin brings a quick buck on the world market -- it's popular with developing countries that use it for mining gold -- DOE will follow ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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What Goes Around Dumbs Around
Bush administration considers unloading mercury on world market |
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29 Nov 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| What Goes Around Dumbs Around Bush administration considers unloading mercury on world market With stunning foresight, the U.S. Department of Energy is pondering a sale of more than 1,300 tons of mercury on the world market. Never mind that mercury sold overseas will, in all likelihood, just drift back to the U.S. as toxic air pollution. Never mind that, as Linda Greer of the Natural Resources Defense Council objects, &q ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, news, toxics (all these topics) |
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I Saw the Sign
How to tell future generations about nuclear waste |
John Stang |
08 Aug 2006 |
Main Dish |
| Think of a mummy movie -- any mummy movie. Treasure hunters enter a pyramid. The explorers either ignore or can't read the hieroglyphics warning of the curse that awaits those who open the 3,000-year-old sarcophagus before them. The mummy awakens and kills most of the cast. Rough translation: Seriously dude, do not open this door. Photo: iStockphoto If only those ancient Egyptians had done a better job ... |
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| Topics: Department of Energy, toxics (all these topics) |
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Dirty Deeds Done Crappily
Hanford nuclear-waste site is a big ol' mess |
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03 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Dirty Deeds Done Crappily Hanford nuclear-waste site is a big ol' mess The cleanup effort at the nuke-waste-riddled Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is looking like one big fustercluck. The finish date has been delayed from 2011 to 2017 or later, extending the time that 53 million gallons of radioactive and toxic waste will sit in leak-prone tanks near the Colu ... |
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| Topics: Columbia River, Department of Energy, news, nuclear power, toxics, Washington (all these topics) |
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The Rocky Flats Horror Picture Show
Ex-FBI agent charges feds with radioactive coverup at Rocky Flats |
Amanda Griscom Little |
21 Jan 2005 |
Muckraker |
| The plotline sounds as absurd as a made-for-TV movie: An FBI agent exposes deadly contamination at an old nuclear-weapons plant, but the federal government conceals the findings. Years later, Congress votes to convert the tract into a wildlife refuge and open it to school field trips and public recreation. The site becomes a poster child for eco-friendly nucl ... |
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| Topics: Colorado, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Muckraker, politics, toxics, waste (all these topics) |
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Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back
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06 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Yakama Yack: Do Talk Back The Yakama Nation has filed notice of its intent to sue the U.S. Department of Energy over its alleged failure to protect the Columbia River from contamination by the Hanford nuclear reservation. Thanks to four decades of plutonium production, Hanford is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country; ... |
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| Topics: Columbia River, Department of Energy, litigation, news, toxics, Washington, water bodies and marine life, water pollution (all these topics) |
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