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Alaska aims to regulate its own hazardous waste
05 Nov 2025 23:45 GMT
… at Juneau’s hazardous waste facility. (Photo by … Legislature adopted new hazardous waste regulations in 2023 that … Superfund site in Fairbanks — and a company that handles hazardous waste … and oil contaminated with other chemicals, which are hazardous wastes …
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Continued government shutdown could threaten key waste, manufacturing projects
05 Nov 2025 20:52 GMT
… plan, including certain critical Superfund response work, emergency … could slow progress on chemical approvals
Other important … including work under the Toxic Substances Control Act, the … in numerous industries, including waste and manufacturing, are closely …
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Little-known 'forever chemical' worsens liver disease in teens
02 Nov 2025 02:49 GMT
… disease in teenagers.
The chemical, perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA), … and the Southern California Superfund Research and Training Program … .
PFHpA triggered a familiar toxic trio: inflammation, oxidative stress … at a time.
Superfund science with a purpose …
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EPA: Superfund cleanup ‘likely’ fouled Pennsylvania town’s water
01 Nov 2025 18:37 GMT
… Superfund site where sludge was used. Those are considered the most toxic … for forever chemicals.
It also raises questions about whether other Superfund sites … a 2.5-mile-long waste pile, known as a cinder …
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Reporting from the Mon: A river watchdog tracks chemical waste
21 Oct 2025 11:47 GMT
… Jefferson Hills LLC, a chemical resins manufacturing plant, releases … zinc and other chemicals in the industrial waste could disrupt … waste in the 1950s and ‘60s and is now a Superfund … and numerous other industrial chemicals. At Synthomer, the Waterkeepers …
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Study underway exploring cleanup efforts to remove toxic groundwater plume in Salt Lake City
27 Oct 2025 19:24 GMT
… /1600 East PCE superfund site, and the Environmental … Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Federal officials believe the chemical … by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. … question?
The agency for toxic substances said groundwater data …
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Michigan startup transforms brewery waste into revenue streams
27 Oct 2025 11:45 GMT
… , including spent grains and stillage, chemicals, minerals, vitamins and other particulates … saw obstacles, Hodges saw opportunity: Waste could be turned “into valuable … of water treatment: Kalamazoo River Superfund sites, PFAS-laden groundwater, nuclear …
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A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them.
09 Oct 2025 15:36 GMT
… to several environmental hazards—including toxic Superfund sites, barges storing petrochemicals and … organic compounds, a class of chemicals that includes many carcinogens. But … about the San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund site, located underwater and …
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Trump EPA slashes workforce by 25%, targets bureaucratic waste amid government shutdown
24 Oct 2025 09:21 GMT
… citing rising backlogs in permitting, chemical reviews and pesticide approvals.
The … EPA continues essential operations (hazardous waste removal, Superfund cleanups), but prolonged funding … up… backlogs in reviewing new chemicals went up, backlogs in …
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Till Waste Do Us Part? EPA Says "I Do" to Biden-Era PFAS "Forever Chemicals" Rule (For Now)
23 Oct 2025 00:54 GMT
In May 2024, the EPA issued a final rule designating Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS), two substances under the PFAS umbrella, as Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) hazardous …