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2000 News Releases
Previous Years
December Releases
00-12-21 Brownfields Communities
Get $1.8 Million for Job Training
00-12-18 CORCO to Correct its
Spill Plans and Pay a $42,000 Penalty for Past Violations
00-12-11 Utuado Allowed Spills
of Used Oil at Municipal Motorpool Facility EPA seeking $63,000 Penalty
00-12-11 Federal Government Settles
Lawsuit Against PRASA
00-12-07 In Precedent-Setting
Case, Company Settles with EPA on Charges that “Mildew-Proof”
Paint is Unregistered Pesticide
00-12-06 EPA Proposes Comprehensive
Plan to Clean Up Hudson River PCBs
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November Releases
00-11-30 A Roundup of Recent
News Items in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S.V.I.
00-11-28 EPA Proposes to Approve
NY and NJ Plans to Reduce Smog in the Northeast
00-11-28 EPA Administrator Browner
Celebrates Superfund Cleanup of Community Park in Boonton, New Jersey
00-11-16 New York City Non-Profits
Receive Grants to Address Environmental Justice Concerns
00-11-16 Rochester Non-Profit
Receives EPA Grants to Address Indoor Air Quality in City Schools
00-11-16 Long Island Non-Profit
Receives Grants to Address Environmental Justice Concerns
00-11-16 Two New Jersey Non-Profits
Receive EPA Grants to Address Environmental Justice Concerns
00-11-13 EPA Makes It Official:
Signs Final Decision on Clean-Up Plan for Ciba-Geigy Superfund Site
00-11-02 EPA Bans Hundreds of
Thousands of Pounds of Toxics from the Great Lakes
00-11-01 EPA Plans to Approve
Closing Two Haz Waste Units at Port Mobil Seeks Public Comment on Plan
for one of S.I.’s Largest Industrial Facilities
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October Releases
00-10-27 Mobil Cited for Inadequate
Spill Response at its Utica Facility
00-10-27 EPA Announces Proposed
Waiver for Arecibo Wastewater Treatment Plant
00-10-23 Richards Fuel Oil Faces
More than $123,000 in Penalties for Storage Tank and Spill Prevention
Violations
00-10-23 EPA Opens Its Ocean
Research Vessel to the Public
00-10-20 New York Sewage Treatment
Plant Receives Top Honors from EPA
00-10-19 Three New Jersey Wastewater
Treatment Plants Receive Top Honors from EPA
00-10-19 EPA Approves More Stringent
Phosphorus Caps for New York City Drinking Water Reservoirs
00-10-18 EPA Charges Kodak with
Failing to Test Valves and Pumps for Air Emissions; Seeks $303,000 Penalty
00-10-18 U.S. EPA Issues Order
to 28 Parties to Participate in Cleanup of Li Tungsten Superfund Site,
Announces Agreement With City of Glen Cove
00-10-18 EPA Proposes to O.K
New York’s Plan to Ban Boat Sewage in Hudson River
00-10-18 Final Plan to Clean
Up and Preserve San Juan Bay Estuary Is Signed
00-10-17 Man from Upstate NY
Convicted of Asbestos Violations, Money Laundering
00-10-17 Raceway Faces $220,000
in EPA Penalties for Violations at Six New Jersey Gas Stations
00-10-16 EPA Signs Innovative
XL Agreement with IBM to Reuse Sludge
00-10-11 EPA Objects to the Meadowlands
Mills Project: Agency Continues to Recommend Denial of Permit
00-10-04 EPA Selects Cleanup
Plan for Groundwater Contamination Problem at Industrial Park in Hicksville,
Long Island
00-10-03 The V&M/Albaladejo
Farms Superfund Site in Vega Baja No Longer a Threat; No Further Federal
Action Warranted
00-10-03 EPA Selects Cleanup
Plan for Additional Properties with Low Levels of Creosote at Federal
Superfund Site in Manville Borough
00-10-03 EPA Selects Cleanup
Plan For Above-ground Structures at Superfund Site on Horseshoe Road in
Sayreville, New Jersey
00-10-03 EPA Selects Final Cleanup
Plan For Contaminated Soils at The Chemical Insecticide Corporation Superfund
Site in Edison, NJ
00-10-03 EPA's Cleanup Plan Will
Remove And Dispose of Waste Contaminated With Chemicals And Heavy Metals
at The Butternuts Landfill in Otsego County
00-10-03 EPA Selects Long-Term
Cleanup Action for Federal Superfund Site in Caledonia, New York
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September Releases
00-09-28 EPA and USACE Implement
More Stringent PCB Guideline for HARS
00-09-27 National Brownfields
Redevelopment Conference in Atlantic City Draws on Local Leadership for
Lessons in Success; Buffalo Mayor Masiello to Speak
00-09-27 National Brownfields
Redevelopment Conference in Atlantic City Draws on Local Leadership for
Lessons in Success; Glen Cove Mayor Suozzi to Speak
00-09-27 National Brownfields
Redevelopment Conference in Atlantic City Draws on Mayoral Leadership
in New York/New Jersey for Lessons in Success
00-09-27 National Brownfields
Redevelopment Conference in Atlantic City Draws on Local Leadership for
Lessons in Success
00-09-19 Federal Court Gives
EPA Access to Investigate Chemical Hazards at J&G Site in Vega Alta;
Firm Will Shut Down Operations to Facilitate EPA Cleanup Work
00-09-19 Cleanup of Contaminated
Sediments at Superfund Site in Moira Proceeds as U.S. Announces Proposed
Agreement With Responsible Parties
00-09-14 Innovative EPA Program
To Enable Kodak to Produce Safer Chemicals
00-09-13 A Roundup of Recent
News Items in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
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August Releases
00-08-25 Guaynabo Drinking Water
Investigation Turns Up Violations at Five Facilities
00-08-24 Roundup of Recent News
Items in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
00-08-24 The V&M/Albaladejo
Farms Superfund Site in Vega Baja No Longer a Threat; EPA Proposes No
Further Federal Action
00-08-24 EPA to Delete Ge Wiring
Devices Superfund Site in Juana Diaz from National List of Hazardous Waste
Sites
00-08-24 EPA Proposes to Delete
The Warwick Landfill Superfund Site in Orange County, New York From National
List of Hazardous Waste Sites
00-08-17 A Roundup of Recent
News Items in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
00-08-17 EPA’S Fox Views
Contaminated Groundwater Treatment System in Operation at Vineland Chemical
Superfund Site in Cumberland County
00-08-10 EPA Announces Comprehensive
Set of Actions to Protect and Improve Caribbean Waters
00-08-08 Long Island Sound Study
Offers $5,000 Grants and Two Grant Writing Workshops
00-08-07 EPA and New York City
Settle CFC Lawsuit
00-08-03 Roundup of Recent News
Items in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
00-08-03 Four North Jersey Gas
Stations’ Neglected Tanks Polluted Soil
00-08-03 EPA to Hold Public Meeting
on Proposed Cleanup Plan For Contaminated Soils at The Chemical Insecticide
Corporation Superfund Site in Edison, NJ
00-08-02 EPA Proposes Cleanup
Plan For Groundwater Contamination Problem at Industrial Park in Hicksville,
Public Meeting Set
00-08-02 University of the Virgin
Islands Gets $5,000 EPA Education Grant
00-08-02 Inter American University
Gets $25,000 EPA Education Grant
00-08-02 New York Groups Get
$80,000 in EPA Education Grants
00-08-02 NJ Groups Get $31,000
in EPA Education Grants; Groups Will Promote Recycling, Watershed Mgmt,
Tree Planting and Awareness of Environmental Health Risks
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July Releases
00-07-31 EPA Proposes Hazardous
Waste Site in Kearny to The Superfund National Priorities List in New
Jersey
00-07-28 EPA to Study Whether
Environmental Factors Are Cause Of Lobster Deaths in Long Island Sound
00-07-31 A Roundup of Recent
News Items in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S.V.I.
00-07-31 Mayor Bernardi and EPA
Announce $335,000 Grant To Protect Syracuse Kids from Lead Poisoning
00-07-24 EPA Proposes to Allow
Dec to Issue Permits to New Power Plants
00-07-19 Latest $500 Thousand
Award for Brownfields Redevelopment Pushes EPA Brownfields Contributions
to Trenton to $1.9 Million
00-07-13 U.S. EPA Selects Newark
and Camden for National Superfund Site Redevelopment Pilot Program
00-07-13 U.S. EPA Selects Four
New York Communities with Federal Superfund Sites for National Site Redevelopment
Pilot Program
00-07-13 EPA Tests Find That
Fuel Stabilizer, Alleged Emissions Control Device, Does Nothing
00-07-12 Chemically Contaminated
Material at Superfund Site in Franklin Township Will Be Shipped Off-Site
For Disposal Rather Than Treated On-Site
00-07-11 Newark Chemical Company
to Reduce Emissions in Settlement with EPA
00-07-07 EPA and New York City
Agree on Schedule For Remediating Four Upstate Drinking Water Gatehouses
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June Releases
00-06-29 Roundup of Recent News
Items in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands
00-06-27 EPA Orders Nearly 400
Drinking Water Systems to File Consumer Confidence Reports
00-06-22 In Settlement with EPA,
Chemical Company Buys $20,000 of Haz Mat Gear for Gloucester City and
Minimizes Waste
00-06-16 EPA Seeks Comment on
Title VI Proposal
00-06-16 EPA Holds Hearing on
Proposal to Dramatically Cut Diesel Pollution
00-06-15 Harlem and Albany Non-Profits
Receive $160K from EPA for Pollution Prevention Efforts
00-06-14 EPA To Unveil Proposed
Plan to Clean Up Ciba-Geigy Site
00-06-08 Kodak Settles with EPA
on Chemical Reporting Charges for $51,000
00-06-07 EPA Makes Modified Cleanup
Final for Contaminated Materials in Two Lagoons at the General Motors
Superfund Site in Massena, New York
00-06-07 EPA O.K's New York's
Plan to Ban Boat Sewage in Huntington-Northport Bay Complex on Long Island
00-06-01 Man Ordered To Pay $4.74
Million for Failing to Clean Up Gasoline Leak that Contaminated Residential
Drinking Water
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May Releases
00-05-31 New York City Making
Good Progress, But Must Step Up Efforts to Protect Drinking Water
00-05-22 EPA Charges New Jersey
Company with Selling Unregistered Pesticidal Tub and Tile Cleaner
00-05-18 EPA Selects North Hempstead
for a $200,000 Brownfields Redevelopment Award
00-05-18 EPA Selects Three More
Upstate New York Communities for Brownfields Redevelopment Awards of $200,000
Each
00-05-18 EPA Selects Five More
New Jersey Communities for Brownfields Redevelopment Awards of $200,000
Each
00-05-18 All Cleanup Measures
in Place at Janssen Ortho LLC in Gurabo
00-05-18 EPA Brownfields Job
Training Grant Will Provide Career Development for Residents Living in
Brownfields Neighborhoods in Western New York State
00-05-18 EPA Brownfields Job
Training Grant Will Provide Career Development for High School Dropouts
in Middlesex County and Phillipsburg
00-05-18 Companies Fined for
Not Curbing Runoff of Polluted Storm Water
00-05-17 EPA and Lilly Del Caribe
Settle Notification Violations
00-05-17 Teenagers from Across
the Region Hold "Air Congress" to Compare Notes on Unique Air
Pollution Curriculum
00-05-11 EPA Gives Public Picture
of U.S.V.I.’s Environmental Releases
00-05-11 EPA Gives Public Picture
of Puerto Rico’s Environmental Releases
00-05-11 EPA Gives Public Picture
of New Jersey’s Environmental Releases
00-05-11 EPA Gives Public Picture
of New York’s Environmental Releases
00-05-11 EPA Places Old Roosevelt
Field Contaminated Groundwater Area on The Federal List of Hazardous Waste
Sites
00-05-11 EPA Proposes Site in
Rockland County Linked to Groundwater Contamination for the Federal List
of Hazardous Waste Sites
00-05-11 EPA Approves NJ's Plant
to Stop Boats from Discharging Sewage into Shrewsbury River
00-05-08 EPA Proposes Rejection
of V.I. Landfill Program
00-05-05 EPA Honors Environmental
Advocates For Exemplary Work
00-05-04 PCB Capacitors Found
in Dismal Swamp Safely Removed, Site Access Restricted
00-05-02 EPA Honors Environmental
Advocates for Exemplary Work
00-05-02 EPA Selects UMET’s
School of Environmental Affairs For $250,000 Award To Promote Smart Growth
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April Releases
00-04-25 EPA Issues First-ever
Orders to Water Systems For Failure to File Consumer Confidence Reports
00-04-24 EPA Proposes Cleanup
Plan for Additional Properties with Low Levels of Creosote at Federal
Superfund Site in Manville Borough
00-04-24 EPA Modifies Cleanup
Action for Contaminated Materials in Two Lagoons at the General Motors
Superfund Site in Massena, New York
00-04-20 EPA Completes Emergency
Hazardous Waste Cleanup at High Street Warehouse in Buffalo
00-04-18 Hillside School Kids
Win Top Honors in National Environmental Contest
00-04-18 EPA Honors Environmental
Advocates for Exemplary Work
00-04-18 EPA Honors Environmental
Advocates for Exemplary Work
00-04-18 EPA Deletes the Katonah
Municipal Well Superfund Site in Westchester County from the National
List of Hazardous Waste Sites
00-04-18 Construction to Start
on Interim Remedy for Dioxin Waste at Diamond Alkali Superfund Site in
Newark's Ironbound; EPA to Meet with Public
00-04-12 Awards Totaling $150,000
Are Latest Installment on EPA Commitment to Support Glen Cove Brownfields
Redevelopment Plans
00-04-12 EPA Awards Buffalo and
Niagara Falls $150,000 Each to Continue Assessments of Sites for Brownfields
Redevelopment
00-04-12 Latest Awards Totaling
$200 Thousand Push EPA Contributions to Trenton's Brownfields Redevelopment
to More than $1 Million
00-04-12 Latest Awards Totaling
$200 Thousand Push EPA Contributions in Hudson County for Brownfields
Redevelopment to $1.1 Million
00-04-07 V.I. Government Agrees
to Clean Up Bovoni Landfill Proposed EPA Order Cites Danger to Human Health
and the Environment, Public Welcome to Comment
00-04-06 EPA Selects Long-Term
Cleanup Plan for the Mohonk Road Industrial Plant Federal Superfund Site
in the Hamlet of High Falls, New York
00-04-06 EPA Selects $20 Million
Final Cleanup Plan for the Tri-Cities Barrel Superfund Site near Binghamton
00-04-05 EPA Cites Lilly Del
Caribe for Clean Water Act Violations; Seeks $137,500 in Penalties
00-04-04 EPA Gives Tentative
Approval to NY's Plan to Stop Boats from Discharging Sewage in Huntington-Northport
Bay Complex on Long Island
00-04-04 EPA Gives Tentative
Approval to NJ'S Plan to Stop Boats from Discharging Sewage into Shrewsbury
River
00-04-04 EPA to Study Fish in
San Jose Lagoon
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March Releases
00-03-28 Browner Recognizes
Some of Nation's Most Energy Efficient Buildings
00-03-24 EPA Issues Final Permit
to PREPA for Re-Powering Project
00-03-23 EPA Removing 475 Gallons
of Paints and Other Materials from Church on St. Thomas
00-03-22 PREPA to Hire Environmental
Review Contractor
00-03-22 EPA Deletes the Renora,
Inc. Federal Superfund Site in Edison Township, New Jersey from National
List of Hazardous Waste Sites
00-03-21 EPA Issues Order to
Schuyler Heights Fire Department; Reminds Others to Comply with Clean
Air Rules
00-03-21 EPA Cites New Jersey
Asbestos Removal Company for Clean Air Act Violations
00-03-10 Cutting-Edge Science
and Tough Management Decisions: Protecting Shallow Water Resources
00-03-10 Linden Airport Fined
$25,000 by EPA for Tank Violations
00-03-10 Buffalo Settles with
EPA on Underground Tanks
00-03-09 Superfund Achievements
Highlighted in 1999 Accomplishments Report
00-03-07 Paterson, NJ Company
Charged with Failing to Tell EPA About Chemical Releases
00-03-02 A Roundup of Recent
News Items in New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
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February Releases
00-02-24 More than a Dozen Defendants
Plead Guilty to Violating Asbestos Rules; One Indicted for Numerous Allegations
of Wrong-doing
00-02-11 EPA Charges Christiansted
Car Dealer with Releasing Used Automotive Oil Into Environment
00-02-09 Regarding Raw Sewage
By-Passes on St. Croix
00-02-04 EPA Gives the U.S. Coast
Guard Go-Ahead Needed to Prevent Total Break-up of Grounded Ship
00-02-03 GOYA Joins Climate Wise
Program
00-02-03 EPA Names Three Long
Island Sites That Have Contaminated Groundwater for Superfund Designation
00-02-03 EPA Places the Peter
Cooper Corporation Site in Cattaraugus County on the Superfund National
Priorities List
00-02-03 EPA Places Contaminated
Scorpio Recycling, Inc. Site in Toa Baja on the Superfund National Priorities
List
00-02-02 Woman Admits Testing
Pesticides on Unknowing Subjects; Corporation Pleads Guilty to Obstruction
of Justice
00-02-02 Major NYC Gasoline Retailer
Faces EPA Penalties for Continued Environmental Violations
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January Releases
00-01-31 EPA Releases Revised
Baseline Modeling Report for Hudson River PCBs Reassessment Project- Refinements
Provide Further Insight
00-01-27 EPA Removes Remaining
Chemical Hazards, Asbestos and Debris from Building Demolitions at Abandoned
Quanta Resources Site in Syracuse
00-01-21 Long Island Sound Study
Grants Fund Community Projects
00-01-21 EPA Holds Public Meeting
on Proposed Cleanup Plan for the Tri-Cities Barrel Superfund Site Near
Binghamton
00-01-21 EPA Proposes to Delete
Renora Site in Edison from Superfund List
00-01-20 EPA Proposes to Delete
Katonah Superfund Site from the National List of Hazardous Waste Sites
00-01-20 EPA Intends to Make
Changes to Draft PREPA Re-Powering Permit
00-01-19 Former Long Island Company,
Izumi, Pays $1.75 Million in for Violating Clean Air Act
00-01-18 Agway Pays $45,000 EPA
Penalty for Violations at 5 NY Locations: Binghamton, Batavia, Guilderland,
Kennedy, Sangerfield Facilities Had Chemical Reporting Violations
00-01-12 EPA Removing 1,540 Gallons
of Pesticides from Dept. Of Agriculture Facility in Kingshill
00-01-11 Panel for Third Round
of Peer Review for Hudson River PCBs Announced by EPA
00-01-10 Navy Agrees to Interim
Cleanup Plan for Vieques under EPA Order
00-01-10 Historic Pledge for
a Greener and Economically Strong Future at the Port of New York and New
Jersey Signed by Key Government and Port Agencies
00-01-05 Former Merchant Marine
Admits Causing 49,000 Gallon Oil Spill in Arthur Kill
00-01-05 EPA Completes Superfund
Cleanup at Abandoned Hazardous Waste Site in City of Hudson in Columbia
County, New York
00-01-04 EPA Reports Show PCBs
from Upper Hudson River May Affect Human Health in Mid-Hudson; Threaten
Fish & Wildlife in Lower Hudson for Decades
00-01-04 Start of First Work
Week of the Millennium Brings No Y2K Problems at Environmentally Sensitive
Sites
00-01-03 EPA Settles Clean Air
Act Case with Brooklyn Printer; Collects $40,000 Penalty
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