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US Ecology's permit violations anger Detroit neighbors
A hazardous waste processing facility in Detroit — which could gain state approval to expand its storage facilities tenfold — has released excessive amounts of mercury, arsenic, cyanide and other toxic chemicals into the city sewer system more than 150 times since September 2010, a review of Great Lakes Water Authority records shows.
US Ecology is allowed to put pretreated chemical waste into the sewer system, but under strict, permitted requirements.
The Free Press, through the Michigan Freedom of Information Act, reviewed records related to the company's wastewater discharge permit going back to September 2010. The records are held by the Great Lakes Water Authority, the regional body that took over wastewater treatment operations from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department on Jan. 1.
Contaminated pond ordered closed at Clean Harbors Colfax
10/17/2016
Water from the contaminated pond is released into tributaries that ultimately carry it to the Red River.
State Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Chuck Carr Brown tells The Town Talk (http://townta.lk/2dQ8jvA) Clean Harbors Colfax has been directed to get rid of the pond and replace it with a system "that will provide greater protections to human health and the environment."
EPA Plans to Allow Unlimited Dumping of Fracking Wastewater in the Gulf of Mexico
Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf of Mexico is in violation of federal law.
In a letter sent to EPA officials on Monday, attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity warned that the agency's draft permit for water pollution discharges in the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine wildlife.
The attorneys claim that regulators do not fully understand how the chemicals used in offshore fracking and other well treatments -- some of which are toxic and dangerous to human and marine life -- can impact marine environments, and crucial parts of the draft permit are based on severely outdated data. Finalizing the draft permit as it stands would be a violation of the Clean Water Act, they argue.
North Sea rig shut down after oil spill off Shetland
October 3, 2016
An oil spill from a North Sea platform is heading away from land, according to BP.
Its Clair platform was shut down on Sunday following the leak.
BP has not yet revealed how much fuel has escaped from the structure, which is 46 miles west of Shetland.
It has, however, confirmed oil is visible on the surface of the water and appears to be moving north.
The firm currently believes that allowing the oil to disperse naturally at sea is the best way to deal with the spill, although other options have not been ruled out.
Meet America's super polluters
9/30/2016
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — To see one of the country’s largest coal-fired power plants, head northwest from this Ohio River city. Or east, because there’s another in the region. In fact, nearly every direction you go will take you to a coal plant — seven within 30 miles.
Collectively they pump out millions of pounds of toxic air pollution. They throw off greenhouse gases on par with Hong Kong or Sweden.
Industrial air pollution — bad for people’s health, bad for the planet — is strikingly concentrated in America among a small number of facilities like those in southwest Indiana, according to a nine-month Center for Public Integrity investigation.