Residents of Hinkley, California will meet with Lahontan Regional Water Control Board officials next week to discuss potential cleanup options for a massive plume of contaminated groundwater, according to the San Bernardino Sun. Continue reading →

Tropical Storm Isaac is slicing its way toward the Gulf Coast and is expected to become a Category 1 or 2 hurricane by the time it makes landfall. While not of the same intensity, the storm is reminding many people of the carnage created by Katrina seven years ago. Continue reading →

ExxonMobil Oil Corp. recently began cleanup efforts on a 26-acre plot of land in La Crosse, Wisconsin that it had sold to the city in 2003 for roughly $1 million, according to The La Crosse Tribune. Soil at the former terminal site was contaminated with oil and various other chemicals. Continue reading →

The Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period for remediation plans related to the Cornell-Dubilier Electronics site in South Plainfield, New Jersey by one month. Continue reading →

The city of New Bedford, Massachusetts has proposed remediation solutions for five residential properties that were built on a former waste site, according to a report in local newspaper The Standard-Times. Continue reading →

Environmentalists praised a government plan announced earlier this week that limits drilling to half of the near 23 million acres of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Continue reading →

For more than three decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been attempting to clean some of the worst polluted sites throughout the country under the Superfund program Continue reading →

Social media giant Facebook is looking to expand its facilities in northern California and is awaiting approval by the state for proposed soil remedies to deal with contaminants at its target site in Menlo Park. Continue reading →

Residents of Anniston, Alabama will have to wait about a month to get results of soil tests to determine if remediation solutions are necessary in ditches on the west side of town. Continue reading →

Kilauea neighborhood residents on the Hawaiian island of Kaua‘i have been invited to a public meeting tomorrow to discuss remediation solutions planned for a former pesticide mixing site. Continue reading →