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By SCOTT FALLON, STAFF WRITER The heavily contaminated Honeywell International Inc. campus in Teterboro will be cleaned up under a major redevelopment project to build a warehouse and distribution center on the site near Teterboro Airport. ProLogis, a $30 billion international real estate developer, has signed an agreement with the state Department of Environmental Protection to remediate the 63 acres off Industrial Avenue. Although specific plans have not yet been made public, ProLogis...

The Kinnickinnic River will get a $22 million cleanup using funds from the federal government and the state of Wisconsin, officials said. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the project calls for the removal of about 170,000 cubic yards of sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) along a a 2,000-foot section of the river on the south side of Milwaukee. The EPA said $14.3 million will come from the Great Lakes Legacy Act fund....

By Leslie H. Dixon NORWAY - The results of the second phase of an environmental study of the old corn canning factory on Lake Road will be revealed next month, but early indications show there may be no significant hazards. "There's nothing too ominous on any of the sites," said Janet Pelletier from the Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments. A $200,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant was awarded in 2005 for the testing of five potentially hazardous sites, including the corn shop...

The Environmental Protection Agency awarded $200,000 to the Oklahoma Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians in a cooperative agreement to assist, develop, and implement Brownfields job training. EPA personnel will work with tribal members to monitor and ensure a successful training process on environmental issues. Originally published by Journal Record Staff. (c) 2008 Journal Record - Oklahoma City. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.

The University of Rhode Island and the towns of Narragansett and South Kingstown will pay almost $3 million to clean up the onetime industrial disposal site at the old West Kingston dump, under the terms of a deal announced this week by two federal agencies. The consent decree, which must be approved by U.S. District Court, Providence, builds on previous cleanup work and negotiations under the federal Superfund law that date to the discovery in 1989 of drums of industrial waste at one of...

By NOK-NOI RICKER; OF THE NEWS STAFF BREWER - For more than a century, the former Eastern Fine Paper Co. and its predecessors made paper on the banks of the Penobscot River and over the decades deposited toxic levels of pollutants in the soil around the mill. A half-buried hazardous waste dump, leaky oil tanks and other identified environmental dangers were found on the 41-acre industrial site when the mill closed in January 2004. Those poisonous items probably would have scared most...

RICHMOND -- A public hearing on the proposed conversion of the Knowles Mill site, in Shannock, into a public park will be held tonight at 7 at the H.L. Arnold Fire And Safety Complex on Route 112. The mill, also known as Carmichael Mill, was razed in 2006. Geoffrey A. Marchant, director of the Community Development Consortium, said the group will report on the contaminants found on site and the proposed cleanup plan and present the concept plan for the park, which calls for public...

By Michelle Dynes Brownfields are polluted land parcels with potential value; EPA offers grants and technical assistance. By Michelle Dynes mdynes@wyomingnews.com CHEYENNE - They are the blemishes on a cityscape. Rundown gas stations and abandoned refineries also pose unique challenges for redevelopment. City planners discussed how to turn contaminated properties into community assets Wednesday during the Western Planners Rendezvous 2008 at The Plains Hotel. Known as brownfields, these...

By Eric Walter Environmental groups released a new survey Monday suggesting New York State has weaker soil cleanup standards than a number of other states when it comes to hazardous chemicals such as lead, arsenic and vinyl chloride. The survey also found state standards to be weaker than those of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The announcement was made on the heels of an agreement by state lawmakers to reform the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program, which provides tax credits...

By Tom Precious, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Aug. 5--ALBANY -- Thirty years after calling attention to the Love Canal environmental disaster, Lois Gibbs now has a new message for the state: Its regulations governing the cleanup of aging industrial sites are inadequate and a danger to the public. Gibbs and other environmental activists brought their concerns to top Paterson administration officials Monday at the Capitol in hopes of getting the state to strengthen rules for just how clean...