Sentences with word «superfund»

A state superfund site in West Islip, Long Island that had undergone decades of treatment for groundwater and soil contamination poses a new threat after monitoring tests revealed high levels of the carcinogen cadmium nearby in sediment at Willet's Creek.

New York officials on Wednesday moved to the declare a state superfund site in Hoosick Falls amid growing concerns over the water contamination in the Rensselaer County village.

According to the sponsors, the bill «allows a personal injury action arising from exposure to chemicals or other substances contained within an area to be commenced within three years of the discovery of the injury, or within three years of when the injury reasonably should have been discovered, or within three years of that site's designation as a state or federal superfund site, whichever is latest.»

The firm's attorneys represent clients in matters involving oil and chemical spills, soil and ground water contamination, transportation and disposal of hazardous wastes, air emissions, remediation and assessments of superfund sites and other environmental liabilities.

She's passed legislation making it easier for those who live in declared superfund sites like Hoosick Falls to sue.

Ms. Gaylord represents public and private entities in a wide range of environmental matters, including state and federal superfund law, hazardous wastes, solid waste and special waste, brownfields, water and air quality, NEPA compliance and environmental issues in Indian Country.

Tar sands fracking will be the next superfund clean ups.

The group fought hard to get the attorney general of Massachusetts involved; now the site is on the federal superfund list.

Once complete, DEC will select an option and direct the responsible parties to implement that as part of their ongoing superfund remediation.»

We urge EPA to move quickly to formally add this site to the federal superfund program and actually begin contributing federal resources to build on the state's ongoing restoration underway.»

In Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturing.

Instead, Congress rejected those requests, keeping air and climate research flat at about $ 117 million, and the Great Lakes program flat at $ 300 million, while adding $ 7.5 million to superfund cleanups.

The Trump White House had identified some $ 230 million in EPA cuts it wanted Congress to make this year, including a $ 48 million cut to climate - related research, a $ 49 million cut to EPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, and $ 30 million cut to efforts to clean up contaminated superfund sites.

Wonder if the future superfund sites will be centered around the huge broiler chicken factory farms.

That's nice, but it doesn't deserve to be called superfund.

Such a global superfund will direct capital to the global clean - up of the messes that have already been made as well provide to the development of technologies that reduce the risk of spillage from oil rigs.

Molly works with the Passaic River Community Advisory Group to fight for the complete cleanup of the Passaic River superfund.

Served as Project Manager on dozens of remediation and superfund projects worth in the vicinity of $ 205 million.

Data management and figure / map production of chemical analysis results of groundwater and soil samples for a major Honeywell superfund site in Phoenix.

Supervised and conducted subsurface investigations, including drilling and soil and groundwater sampling at state and superfund hazardous waste sites.

Taconic Plastics has been designated a state superfund site after it was determined to be the source of a PFOA contamination of drinking water in the town of Petersburgh, the Department of Environmental Conservation on Thursday announced.

«We have the state's superfund law which we worked on the past two years ago — $ 1 billion over 10 years.

His environmental practice included representation of a government agency in the $ 1.5 billion superfund clean - up of the Fox River and a company in the clean - up of the Sheboygan River.

The EPA declared Hoosick Falls a federal superfund site.

A state superfund site in West Islip that had undergone decades of treatment for groundwater and soil contamination poses a new threat after monitoring tests revealed high levels of the carcinogen cadmium nearby in sediment at Willet's Creek.

We figured this would be a good method to diversify contributions since once you superfund, you can't contribute for four years.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Public Services, a superfund site is «any land in the United States that has been contaminated by hazardous waste and identified by the EPA as a candidate for cleanup because it poses a risk to human health and / or the environment.»

The New York state Department of Health has begun sampling private wells in the vicinity of Stewart Air National Guard base, which the state Department of Environmental Conservation declared a superfund site in August.

He didn't succeed, but he did create high levels of radiation, enough to have his mother's home declared a superfund site for cleanup.

«DEC has already listed the area as a state superfund site and for over 8 months have been investigating the extent of the contamination and holding the polluters accountable to advance the necessary clean up, as we continue to do with other contaminated sites in Petersburgh, NY and Newburgh, NY.

«This emergency regulation will allow the DEC to tap into its superfund authority both to investigate the extent of the contamination of PFOA in Hoosick Falls and more importantly to begin remediation,» Seggos said.

The superfund designation comes several months after the Saint - Gobain plant in another Rensselaer County community, the village of Hoosick Falls, was given a similar status after a PFOA contamination was found in the village's drinking water.

The designation of the superfund site gives state the power to determine the full extent of the chemical contamination in order to begin a cleanup process.

Cuomo says it will then recoup the money from Northrop Grumman and the Navy through the superfund process or litigation.

Superfund / Brownfields: $ 135 million is appropriated to finance state superfund and brownfield programs and related agency expenditures.

Less than 24 hours before a state Senate hearing on water quality begins in the Rensselaer County community of Hoosick Falls, the DEC has declared municipal landfills in the Village of Hoosick Falls and towns of Petersburgh and Berlin to be «potential» state superfund sites.

Nixon's visit to Hoosick Falls strikes at the legacy of an environmental disaster that brought widespread criticism on the response to the crisis by Cuomo's administration and subsequently resulted in areas of Hoosick Falls being declared as federal and state superfund sites.

Governor Andrew Cuomo Thursday signed the bill, which would allow those with health effects associated with a federal or state superfund site to file a personal injury suit by suspending the statute of limitations for three years after such a designation.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will soon start a detailed environmental study at Temco Uniforms, a superfund site located at 29 Samsondale Ave, West Haverstraw, NY located in Rockland County.

If they were real spaces for community engagement, then environmental hazards such as the fact that the megatowers would add systemic overload to the Newtown Creek drainage basin, a superfund site, would have been raised.

Approved $ 142.3 million for superfund / brownfield programs, including $ 120 million for hazardous waste remediation, $ 15 million for expenses related to the brownfield act, including state funded cleanups, technical assistance grants, and brownfield program administration; $ 7.3 million for costs related to brownfield and VCP oversight.

On the one hand, the governor proclaimed the afflicted area a state superfund site and began a process of officially labeling the chemistry as toxic.

At a Thursday meeting with the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., new EPA chief Pruitt told mayors he was delivering a message to the White House and Congress that agency programs aimed at cleaning up superfund sites, rehabilitating former industrial land, and improving water infrastructure «are essential to protect.»

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The fund you mention, PowerShares CEF Income Composite ETF, is not a «superfund.»

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