Groundwater Contamination
May 2008--$25 million settlement reached in Colstrip lawsuit (US Water News)
The five corporations that own eastern Montana's Colstrip power plant have agreed to pay $25 million to settle a groundwater
March 19, 2008--Owner of 'Lowest Price' gas stations fined $3 million (Environmental News Service)
The U.S.
February 11, 2008--Texas residents say their ground will never be the same after uranium mining (Greeley Tribune)
The resurgent field of in-situ uranium mining throughout the American West has forged a new kind of pioneer, one who still fights for land and water on the plain
January 2, 2008--Rotary hears uranium debate (Coloradoan)
Uranium mining operations proposed east of Wellington would either benefit Northern Colorado or cause it irreparable harm.
December 27, 2007--Combustion waste angers residents (Cortez Journal)
Each year, power plants in the United States collectively kick out enough coal combustion waste (CCW) to fill a train of coal cars stretching from Manhattan to Los Angeles and back three and a half
December 6, 2007--Toxic legacy (High Country News)
Just south of Albuquerque on Kirtland Air Force Base lie 30 years’ worth of canisters, boxes and even plastic bags, summarily dumped into unlined trenches by Sandia National Laboratories duri
November 26, 2007--Panel questions failure to study tainted water (LA Times)
A House committee is demanding to know why federal regulators failed to assess potential public health damage from extremely high levels of a toxic industrial solvent found in Southern California d
September 28, 2007--Pentagon fights Wisconsin water standards for toxic explosive (ens-newswire)
The Pentagon intends to challenge the state of Wisconsin's intention to regulate all forms of the explosive dinitrotoluene, DNT, Army officials announced on Monday.
