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SLO wins $6.6 million grant to clean up toxic chemical in groundwater. Here’s how
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThe San Luis Valley Groundwater Basin stretches from San Luis Obispo to Edna Valley — but a toxic...
Exclusive: How pollution from dry cleaners left California sitting on cancer-linked ‘time bombs’
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFor decades, a chemical called PCE has seeped into the ground beneath thousands of dry cleaners...
Exclusive: How can California help clean up thousands of polluted dry cleaning sites?
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoCalifornia is facing a toxic, multi-billion dollar problem: how to clean up decades of pollution...
Exclusive: California’s small dry cleaners face massive bills to clean up toxic chemical
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 7 months agoTaline Mazlemian will never forget the day her uncle died nearly 20 years ago. “Thursday, April 15,...
Is a common industrial chemical fueling the spread of Parkinson's disease?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Santa Susana Field Laboratory site in the Simi Hills of Ventura County, shown in 2020, is one of...
EPA announces plan for cleaning up remaining cancer-causing contamination in Franklin
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDecades after toxic pollution was first discovered in Franklin — a Johnson County community with a...
New funding will let cleanup begin at a North Carolina Superfund site. What we know.
Raleigh News and Observer via AOL· 1 year agoA former textile mill in Granville County is one of 22 Superfund sites where cleanup will move...
Santa Monica school expansion delayed by toxic dry cleaning chemicals in soil
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoMcKinley Elementary has designs to modernize its campus. But plans are being delayed, and costs are...
PCE abatement plan reviewed by NMED
Alamogordo Daily News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe New Mexico Environment Department said it is reviewing a plan to investigate the extent of chemical contamination at a site in Alamogordo that could threaten soil and groundwater. The New ...
Iowa plant that exploded won't join Superfund list, EPA says
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo Finance· 8 months agoDespite contaminants including carcinogens found on the site of a Marengo shingle recycling factory...