Oct 10, 2023 | issues
A national coalition of 26 environmental organizations has submitted a formal joint request to the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee for a financial audit to inform both Congress and the public with a measure of damages caused by open air burning and...
Sep 18, 2023 | issues
In a formal letter to WDNR Secretary Adam Payne today, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CSWAB) asks that the Department require the U.S. Army, as the acknowledged responsible party, to incorporate PFAS and other emerging contaminants in its pending...
Sep 6, 2023 | issues
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...
Jul 14, 2023 | issues
‘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...
Jun 28, 2023 | issues
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...
Jun 15, 2023 | issues
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...
