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"EPA Downplays Dredging Risk to Bay City Water Supply"

"Nearly a month after the onset of a navigational dredging project in the Saginaw River that some worry will send dioxin-contaminated sediments downstream toward the intakes for Bay City’s water supply, EPA officials responded to citizen concerns by announcing it would not test the water for the toxin."

Source: Michigan Messenger, 06/16/2009

"Stimulus Money Put To Work at Superfund Sites"

As part of the economic stimulus package, EPA plans to spend $600 million -- double what it usually spends -- on cleaning up contaminated industrial waste sites.

Source: NPR, 05/27/2009

"Dredging of Pollutants Begins in Hudson"

After a 25-year delay, dredging has finally begun to remove PCB-laced sediments from the stretch of the Hudson River polluted by a GE plant.

Source: NYTimes, 05/18/2009

EPA To Take Over Tennessee Coal-Ash Cleanup

EPA announced Monday that it would take over cleanup of the Kingston, Tennessee, fly ash spill from a TVA plant under the Superfund hazardous waste law.

Source: Knoxville News, 05/12/2009

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