Waste Feature Stories
Protecting People from PCBs (1/29) Shipping companies fined for alleged illegal distribution and export of PCBs.
Revitalizing Old Maui High (11/4) With the aid of an EPA Congressional Special Purpose grant the once beautiful and buzzing Old Maui high school is restored.
Partnership Supports Cleanup and Reuse of Land The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) committed to rapid investigation and cleanup of a Fullerton, California site, and delivered on its promise.
Golden Opportunity for Abandoned Gold Mines In Nevada City (5/12/08) Nevada City and its partners are assessing five major mine tailings areas located in the heart of the city. Feature story & Video »
Rio Dell - Innovation Used to Clean Up Business District (1/14/08) Rio Dell’s innovative approach to redevelopment is allowing the city to promote economic growth in spite of its small size and limited budget; Feature story »
Land Revitilization in Hawai´i (10/24/07) Land revitalization projects preserve Hawai´i's precious natural resources and is key to sustainable living within this island state.
Innovative Green Building Challenge (9/20/07) Winners were selected in three categories: Building, Component, and Service and each category has Student, Professional - Built, and Professional - Unbuilt winners. A People's Choice Award based on online voting was also recognized.
Restoring the Romic Property for a Cleaner Future (9/17) EPA has proposed a remedy to clean up soil and groundwater contamination at the Romic Environmental Technologies Corporation. facility in East Palo Alto, California.
MTBE Removed from Groundwater at Martinez Terminal (7/27) The Regional Water Quality Control Board and Tesoro Refining Corporation, in cooperation with EPA, have removed 4,100 pounds of MTBE from the groundwater at a Martinez refining terminal.
Riding the Rails to Land Revitalization (7/13) EPA will manage a $200,000 Brownfields grant to revitalize a former railyard in Fremont, California. Feature story & photos
U.S. EPA honors Northrop for voluntary efforts to reduce chemicals in semiconductor manufacturing
The EPA created the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities Program to reduce 30 high priority chemicals - including dioxins and mercury - by 10 percent by the year 2008. The EPA selected these chemicals because they persist in the environment for many years.
“Northrop Grumman Space Technology has taken steps to go above and beyond environmental compliance. They’ve pledged to reduce highly toxic chemicals while improving their bottom line - that’s no small effort,” said Jeff Scott, Director of U.S. EPA’s Hazardous Waste Program for the Southwestern U.S.
For more information, please vist the National Partnership for Environmental Priorities Program on the Web.
A new biotechnology campus will rise where a decrepit century-old paint factory once stood in South San Francisco, thanks to a recent RCRA brownfields agreement.
Recycled Products Cooperative aims to reduce waste and conserve natural resources by stimulating markets and making recycled paper more affordable.
UC's participation in EPA's Compliance Incentive Program demonstrates the benefits of this creative way of achieving greater environmental and human health protection.
Fort Independence awarded solid waste grants and the WasteWise 2004 Program Champion Award.
The US EPA, Mexican Secretary for Environment & Natural Resources, and State of Baja California partnered to demonstrate a cleanup.
An arena recycling success
In 2001, the HP Pavilion’s event managers developed a plan with Waste Management – the Pavilion’s trash contractor – to improve the recycling program at the arena.
Mission Accomplished: The U.S. Army safely destroyed the last of over 400,000 obsolete chemical weapons collected from Okinawa and other U.S. military bases in the Pacific Basin and West Germany between 1971 and 1991.