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Missouri Community and Its Children Grappling With Conflicting Nuclear Waste Exposure Reports

Union of Concerned Scientists

Specifically, USACE has been in the Coldwater Creek region for the last 20 years attempting to remediate radioactive waste associated with the creek (which does not include Jana Elementary). The radioactive waste was released decades ago. Finally, they [tested] parks that had flooded, and found [radioactive waste]. Louis area.

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Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million Highlight Big Shale Gas, Related Petrochemical Industry Compliance History In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

million penalty against Halliburton Energy Services for 255 violations of the state Solid Waste Management Act; -- $1.5 Here are j ust a few examples of the penalties imposed by DEP against Big Shale Gas and related industries include-- -- $939,553 penalty against Chevron related to fatal gas well fire in Greene County; -- $1.1

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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. In every other industry, point source permits require polluters to treat their wastes to dramatically reduce contaminants. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J.

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DEP Issues Abandoned Well Violation To Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well With Nearly Full Storage Tanks, Expired EPA Permit In Venango County

PA Environment Daily

The Latshaw 9 conventional well was first issued a permit as a waste injection well by DEP on June 10, 2014 and by the US Environmental Protection Agency on June 28, 2016. DEP’s November 27 inspection report said the Latshaw 9 well was not used for waste disposal during an inspection since March 14, 2023.

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Cold extremes do in fact decrease under global warming

Real Climate

Much of that effort was wasted. These were the following, showing northern mid-latitude extreme events from 1950-2013: Cohen et al (2014). 627-637, 2014. However, within the paper were a couple of graphs that attracted a lot of attention. Francis, K. Dethloff, D. Entekhabi, J. Overland, and J. Alexander, H. Vose, and J.

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The charges against Imperial Oil are necessary but do not substitute for reform of the provincial energy regulator

Enviromental Defense

It is a victory that Imperial Oil will have to face the courts for releasing millions of litres of toxic waste into the environment. trillion litres of waste, covering an area more than 2.6 Yet, this enforcement does not change the need for urgent regulatory reform in Alberta. No public updates have been issued since.

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways.