EPA Superfund News

28/03/2024

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07/11/2023

As Colorado's largest statewide, member-supported, multi-media network, Rocky Mountain PBS wants to make sure everyone is seen and heard.

06/11/2023

The inaction on regulating contaminants — including those that likely cause cancer, reproductive or developmental issues — found in the water of millions of Americans illustrates shortcomings in the U.S. response to environmental threats, say experts.

06/11/2023

The extent of ongoing exposure to the general public from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water in the United States and worldwide remains uncertain. Here, we analyze publicly accessible data sets of PFAS occurrence in drinking water in the United States. Testing with detectio...

04/11/2023

Scientists are showing these damaging compounds can be beat.

02/11/2023

Save Barnegat Bay urged parade spectators to join it for the "Pep Rally for the River" as it continues to fight the NJDEP's deal with BASF.

13/10/2023

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Environmental Protection Agency will be hosting the Lincoln Park Superfund Site’s annual public meeting in a hybrid format from 3-5 …

30/08/2023

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08/07/2023

President Biden faces an important challenge: to face down the polluters and their lackeys in Congress.

01/07/2023

“I think it’s a valid question for the future of our community,” said Peacock, “how does this affect our children?”

15/05/2023

So much for CDPHE commitment to environmental justice?

By Trish Zornio At least one air monitoring site in Commerce City is set to close this month due to a lack of available funds at the state level. The closure comes as Suncor continues [...]

27/04/2023

Long-term exposure to even low levels of fine particulate matter, NOx chemicals increases occurrence of depression, anxiety, research shows.

04/11/2022

The EPA removed another section of the Libby Superfund site from its National Priorities List. These sections are contaminated with asbestos from a vermiculite mine.

19/09/2022

This is also the sad story of communities in the Denver metro area who are impacted by pollution for mega polluters like SUNCOR. Politicians like Governor Polis perpetuate the sickness and death by using "regulators" like Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and their revolving door lawyers who talk a good line, make promises, throw crumbs to the suffering and then allow the polluters to continue killing. EPA Region 8 is only too happy to help out.
https://grist.org/accountability/the-tragedy-of-north-birmingham/?fbclid=IwAR0RRTVE7uYeeVXYxiC8sP-Nl-11s9yIYRfvGNLbAf1eHPB8e8WW3wtObKY

Industrial plants in Birmingham, Alabama, have polluted the air and land in its historic Black communities for over a century. In an epicenter of environmental injustice, officials continue to fail to right the wrongs plaguing the city’s north side.

27/05/2022

On April 22 — Earth Day — a van carrying Aurora Congressman Jason Crow turned onto a dusty road in east Aurora. The van parked on a small overpass above a marsh. Crow hopped out and, hands on hips, squinted at the bushes and reeds covering the creek bed. Nothing from the scene indicated that [.....

26/05/2022

Attorney General Maura Healey is joining the nationwide tsunami of lawsuits against companies that manufacture ubiquitous forever chemicals contained in firefighting foam in hopes of getting the ch…

26/05/2022

The EPA said Alabama did not adequately respond to public comments expressing concern about the chemical production facility.

19/05/2022

TRAP appeared to be associated with an increased asthma among children with bronchiolitis, indicating the importance of modifying effects of bronchiolitis in asthma pathogenesis.

19/05/2022

No surprise. Colorado and Denver expanded Highway I-70 through minority , low income neighborhoods Globeville , Elyria and Swansea even though it was well known and documented that childhood rates of asthma near this highway are sky high.The Governors and Mayor who are fathers apparently have no sympathy for sick poor children... thier children live far from the killer highway.

Air pollution exposures have been suggested as risk factors for childhood respiratory diseases. We investigated proximity to major roads, an indicator of air pollution exposure, and its associations with childhood recurrent wheeze and asthma. We used data from a multicenter prospective cohort study....

18/05/2022

In Denver metro, Suncor os killing thousand of us,,, some fast some slow.but in the end, the Canadian profiteers who own Suncor are far away and their children are safe. Not so in our local communities.Why is Polis protecting them? why isn't suncor gone before it kills more. of us?

The association between proximity to oil refineries and cancer rate is largely unknown. We sought to compare the rate of cancer (bladder, breast, colon, lung, lymphoma, and prostate) according to proximity to an oil refinery in Texas.A total of 6 302 265 ...

18/05/2022

Denver colorado keeps measuring the toxic air and people keep on getting sicker and dying. Well, I guess they have more details about wha tickling them. the EPA only measures 6 out of over 180 air pollutants so maybe they don't know exactly what is sending them to an early grave. when will the politicians actually move to cut the level of pollution?

Calvert City, Kentucky, has long had what people in other toxic hot spots have been begging for: monitors to prove they’re being exposed to toxic industrial air pollution. Regulators have years of evidence, but the poison in the air is only growing.

15/05/2022

EPA is refusing to test for PFAS in the 3 mile plume of toxic chemicals that extends out from Lowry Landfill. The Lowry Landfill Community Advisory Group ( CAG) is fighting EPA in its attempts to protect the drinking water wells in the path of the plume.

Last month, an Ohio court certified a class action lawsuit brought by lawyer Rob Bilott that would cover seven million people – and at some point

25/04/2022

Generations of students at Jordan high in Los Angeles lived with extreme pollution nearby. Now, could things finally change?

24/04/2022

21/04/2022

Adrienne Anderson, was a brave, outspoken environmental science instructor at CU Boulder. She fought all odds to let us know what polluters were doing, with the help of too willing politicians, to poison us.
The right wingers who run CU Boulder, fired her because she was angering powerful polluters that she exposed.
She blew the whistle on the toxic pollution from Rocky Flats and Lowry Landfill, two Superfund Sites, years ago. And for her trouble, she was publicly harassed, intimidated and abused by a group of ignorant, blow hard, white-men who protected the polluters and left us to suffer the consequences. Adrienne died of a brain tumor. EPA and CDPHE are still trying to suppress the information that she exposed years ago.

A maverick member of the board that oversees the metro sewage system has managed to shake up that once-sleepy body with charges of a conspiracy to run radioactive waste through Denver-area sewers. Some say boardmember Adrienne Anderson is a paranoid nut, while others cast her as an environmental cru...

20/04/2022

The changes to the National Environmental Policy Act reverse Trump-era rollbacks, impacting projects from roads to railways to pipelines.

19/04/2022

FRONTLINE examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change in a three-part documentary series.

17/04/2022

Lakewood has a similar hot spot. Where is the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment? Zip code 80216 is rated the most polluted zip code in the country. People are dying . Gov. Polis??? Mayor Hancock?

After learning from a ProPublica analysis that his Missouri city had a high estimated cancer risk from toxic air, Verona Mayor Joseph Heck demanded that the state investigate. Health officials confirmed his worst fears and want to learn more.

13/04/2022

EDITORIAL
DENVER CHOKES AS ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME FLOURISHES
CDPHE, under the direction of Gov. Polis, hired Garry Kaufman, a revolving door attorney who protected his past, polluter clients instead of us, as the Director of the CDPHE Air Division .
When CDPHE whistleblowers made it impossible for Polis to coverup Kaufman's dirty deeds anymore, Polis rewarded him with a new, high paying job at CDPHE.

CDPHE then hired Michael Ogletree who headed the "See, Hear, Speak No Evil" Air Pollution Control Division in Denver to head the CDPHE Air Division.
Ogletree helped Denver discredit and ignore the pleas of parents and advocates to accurately monitor and clean up dirty air in grossly polluted, Latino communities in Denver.

Mayor Hancock oversees Denver government and spends his time when not working out at the Denver Athletic Club, advocating for the city to spend millions on tourist attractions like an ice skating rink at the Western Stock Show for his tin hat fantasy of bringing the Olympics to Denver. After 11 years in office, air pollution is clearly NOT a priority for him. His indifference could be our death sentence.

EPA REGION 8'S efforts to help sick and dying residents of polluted Latino neighborhoods, included declaring neighborhoods infested with unhealthy, high levels of industrial lead and arsenic in the soil..... as "clean and safe" .
They have ignored suffering, sickness and death in favor of their devotion to big money, developers and politicians.

EPA Region 8, Denver and CDPHE have worked together to dispute, suppress and discredit community efforts to expose the indifference, corruption , negligence and environmental crimes that have caused the air we breathe to be so polluted that babies are being born with birth defects, our children are choking and dying from asthma attacks and we adults are dying earlier and from diseases that are preventable... All we need is clean air, water and soil.

Will the new Administrator of EPA Region 8, KC Becker, be able to stand up to the long festering corruption wrought by power brokers in Denver and Colorado?
Will she be able to get rid of the obvious, deeply rooted corruption in her own department in Denver?
Does she even want to?

More Colorado companies will be forced to obtain and comply with tougher state air pollution permits, and gas stations will also likely be required to sell cleaner-burning fuel.

12/04/2022

Should the EPA investigate the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for similar charges?

Complaints allege that industrial facilities have discharged “excessive levels” of carcinogenic chemicals in a majority-Black community.