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NIPSCO working on cleanup at former plant
South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND — Northern Indiana Public Service Co. began a six-week project today to clean up the site of a manufactured gas plant that operated from 1904 until 1953 on Pennsylvania Avenue. NIPSCO is removing the soil as part of an environmental cleanup.

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Turning the Corner
Oak Ridger
By John Eschenberg One of the most encouraging developments over the past year has been a renewed sense of optimism in Oak Ridge about efforts to clean up our community's environmental legacies. An unfortunate by-product of Oak Ridge's contributions to ...

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Plan developed to clean up highly radioactive Hanford spill
TheNewsTribune.com
By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald Hanford officials have settled on a plan to clean up what may be the most highly radioactive spill at the nuclear reservation. It depends on calling back into service the 47-year-old, oversized hot cell where the spill ...

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Monticello man still violating DEC cleanup orders: state
Times Herald-Record
Turick has drawn $2 million in fines during an 8-year battle with the state, village, and Town of Thompson to clean up the site on Waverly Avenue, shown Sunday.TH-Record Photo By Leonard Sparks MONTICELLO — The state attorney general's office is ...

Asbestos cleanup project's budget doubled
Ynetnews
The asbestos cleanup project began in April 2011 and so far, contaminated asbestos amounting 14000 cubic meters has been removed from 36 sites in the Western Galilee. Coalition for Public Health in Israel warns leak of hazardous materials in area will ...

Ringwood Manor closed for cleaning
NorthJersey.com
Ringwood Manor, the historic country house at the heart of Ringwood State Park, will be closed for the remainder of the winter to allow for cleanup of soot released by a malfunctioning furnace, the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) ...

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Elusive cleanup project: Rosebud awaiting permits to begin treating Topper Run ...
The Tribune-Democrat
MICHAEL — The Topper Run acid-mine discharge – said to be the single largest contributor to pollution in the Little Conemaugh River – continues to remain elusive to cleanup. The subject of a pilot sulfate and metal extraction project in 2007, ...

Olympics site clean-up completed
The Press Association
Work to clean up the Olympic site and create the largest urban park in Europe for more than 100 years has been completed, the Environment Agency has said. An area the size of 297 football pitches, much of which was polluted, has been cleaned up, ...

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Clean-up more imperative than ever
The Zimbabwe Standard
BY CHIPO MASARA IN the face of the typhoid scourge that continues to put in danger many a life, it is more imperative than ever to clean-up and try as best as we all can to maintain a clean environment. We have relentlessly talked about the need for ...

Calcasieu sheriff needs money to clean up busted meth labs
The Republic
Calcasieu Parish will seek about $20000 in federal money to help the Sheriff's Office clean up clandestine meth labs. The American Press reports (http://bit.ly/qjfACs) the money would come from the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Cleanup may put wildlife at risk
NorthJersey.com
If her office decides the plan would not remove enough mercury-tainted sediment, it could ask the Environmental Protection Agency, which must sign off on the plan, to get DuPont to broaden the cleanup. It could also consider a Natural Resource Damage ...

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'Desert Clean Up' campaign kicked off
AME Info
Waste Management Department of Dubai Municipality launched the Desert Clean Up campaign under the title 'Keep desert clean; it is for others too' in line with the National Environmental Day celebrations, for the second consecutive year.
Desert clean-up to continue this weekgulfnews.com

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EPA advises on Le Roy cleanup plan
The Daily News Online
The TCE ended up in the water table and bedrock along Gulf Road. EPA and state Department of Environmental Conservation testing done in the 1990s showed a plume of TCE groundwater contamination had spread almost 4 miles to the east and southeast of the ...

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Desert clean-up to continue this week
gulfnews.com
By Shveta Pathak, Staff Reporter Dubai: The Municipality sponsored desert clean-up campaign will continue until Saturday and will include various activities for participants, organisers said. "The response has been excellent. The activities during the ...

China.org.cn
Cadmium pollution cleanup effective: experts
China Daily
Xu said cleanup procedures organized by the team of more than 100 environmental and water experts that he heads had brought peak cadmium concentrations down from 80 times the official limit to less than 20 times the limit. Cadmium pollution was first ...
Cadmium Spill Threatens Water SupplyWall Street Journal
China Fires 7 Officials After SpillNew York Times
Guangxi: Continuous clean-up work brings in signs of reliefChina.org.cn
China Worker -Reuters India
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Chicago Tribune
D-Day looms for illegal dump
Chicago Tribune
For once, the sound of construction trucks is music to the ears of Lake Barrington residents who have complained for decades about a sprawling, illegal dump that is now undergoing a final cleanup by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

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Daily Press
Army Corps of Engineers continues Fort Monroe cleanup
Daily Press
The Army is addressing areas of concern that have so far yielded soil contaminated with metals, mercury and other chemicals, said Robert Reali Fort Monroe Base Realignment and Closure environmental coordinator. The cleanup continues during the Army's ...

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Oilsands monitoring won't cleanup Canada's reputation: experts
GlobalNews.ca
Ottawa and Alberta are hoping a new monitoring plan will curb criticism that the province's massive oilsands fields are a dirty source of energy, but environmentalists say it will take a lot more to clean up Canada's reputation.

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NorthJersey.com
Ringwood Manor closed for cleanup of artifacts after furnace's sooty malfunction
NorthJersey.com
“We need to clean each of these carefully in a way that's material specific.” The DEP, which owns the museum, is investigating the cause of the malfunction in the 15-year-old furnace, Hajna said. The extensive damage comes less than a year after 19th ...
Soot-spewing furnace forces closing of Ringwood Manor historic sitenewjerseynewsroom.com

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Next Barnegat Bay cleanup set for May 9
Asbury Park Press
A second regionwide cleanup of Barnegat Bay and its tributaries is scheduled for May 9, and the state Department of Environmental Protection is already recruiting local partners, the agency said today. Dubbed the Barnegat Bay Blitz, the event is a ...

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