EPA Set to Defer Cleanup of Alaska Burn Pits for Decades, Again

EPA Set to Defer Cleanup of Alaska Burn Pits for Decades, Again

Anchorage, ALASKA — For more than 40 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has deferred cleanup and closure of a former hazardous waste burning area at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. If approved, a pending  EPA permit will leave this...
Renewed Permit for Burning Hazardous Waste Questioned

Renewed Permit for Burning Hazardous Waste Questioned

‘They have to convince us’: Concerned residents react to Clean Harbors Colfax’s renewed permit By Alena Noakes COLFAX, La. (KALB) – With the news of a hazardous waste permit renewal for Clean Harbors Colfax (CHC) comes the same wary approach by some Colfax...
Toxic Burn Pits are Poisoning Central Louisiana

Toxic Burn Pits are Poisoning Central Louisiana

Central Louisiana Coalition for a Clean & Healthy Environment: Fighting for ZERO Open Burning/Open Detonation in New RCRA Permit   September 22, 2022 — Clean Harbors Colfax is the only commercial open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) facility in the...
Viequenses Call for Ban on Toxic Burning by Military

Viequenses Call for Ban on Toxic Burning by Military

Testimony before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization Michael Urayoan Connelly Reyes Representing Vidas Viequenses Valen, Vieques, Puerto Rico 20 June 2022 We’re an island population with a backstory of more than six decades residing downwind of...