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...
‘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...
WASHINGTON, DC (June 21, 2023) – Potomac Riverkeeper Network (PRKN) and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Navy in federal court in Maryland over violations of the Clean Water Act. The U.S. Navy uses a long stretch of the...
CSWAB recently received the following documents through an Open Records Request to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Because we wanted to share these records with you as soon as possible, we have not had the opportunity to review them and have no comment...
In order to assure that Wisconsin residents, military base workers and service members are fully and promptly informed of potential risks to public health, groundwater standards recommended by state health officials should be immediately adopted by the state...
In a joint national letter today, 81 environmental and social justice organizations from across the U.S. and its territories are urging the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and U.S. EPA to immediately halt all open air burning and open detonation...
“We applaud CSWAB for holding the military and the federal government accountable to ameliorate the pollution caused to local water systems by military and industrial toxins – and for continually ensuring that the community engagement process respects the viewpoints of all cultures and stakeholders.”
