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 Stories About: Idaho AND toxics AND US EPA
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Curse D' Alene
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14 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Curse D' Alene In a precedent-setting move, U.S. federal officials signed an agreement yesterday ceding control of the cleanup of Idaho's highly polluted Coeur d'Alene Basin to state, local, and tribal officials. For more than a century, mining waste from the Silver Valley washed down the Coeur d'Alene River into Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River, and from there into Lake ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, rivers and watersheds, toxics, US EPA, Washington, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Get the Lead Out
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21 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Get the Lead Out Residents of northern Idaho are fiercely resisting a plan by the U.S. EPA to expand a 21-square-mile area into one of the country's largest Superfund sites. That's not so unusual -- many towns resist Superfund designation, fearing that the stigma will drive away tourists and businesses. But some northern Idaho towns have filed a lawsuit to block expansion of the cleanup. The EPA has been working in the area since the ... |
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| Topics: Idaho, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Special K-O
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22 Oct 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Special K-O Like the rest of the country, the town of Kellogg, Idaho, is at war. But this one is a civil war over the Silver Valley Superfund site, the legacy of a century of mining and smelting in the Coeur d'Alene River Basin. The U.S. EPA is poised to decide this week whether to expand the cleanup efforts from 21 square miles to 1,500 square miles, which would make Silver Valley the nation's larges ... |
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| Topics: business, Idaho, mining and drilling, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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