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  • Prescott: ADEQ fines Pure Wafer $120,000 for not having air quality permit

    The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) reported Friday that Pure Wafer Inc. has agreed to pay $120,000 in civil penalties for not having an air quality permit at its Prescott facility. According to an ADEQ news release, officials with the state department observed an emission from an onsite stack during an inspection at the […]

  • Minnesota: East metro: 3M, Met Council agree that Mississippi is not ‘impaired’

    Two legal adversaries have found something they can agree on — the Mississippi River is clean enough. The Metropolitan Council and 3M Co. have asked the state of Minnesota to declare that the pollution of the river by 3M’s chemicals wasn’t as bad as previously thought. But at the same time, the Met Council is […]

  • Intel air quality: Committee created by fluoride settlement begins work

    The first meeting of a committee created in the wake of Intel’s failure to disclose fluoride emissions began with a polite – but adversarial – greeting. “I’m pleased to meet you,” said committee member Dale Feik, addressing Intel attorney Tom Wood. “I’m a critic of you.” Feik, a member of the Washington County Citizen Action […]

  • Hamilton: Still no action on airport contamination

    More than four years after it was discovered, the world-record levels of a toxic flame-retardant chemical that have contaminated the Binbrook Conservation Area reservoir and the Welland River still await a cleanup plan being bandied back and forth between the provincial Ministry of the Environment and Tradeport International. The city agreed to cover half the […]

  • Intel’s air quality permit: DEQ could require fluoride testing, about 55 comments submitted

    Intel could be required to perform stack testing specifically for fluoride, an emission it failed to report for years, under a pending state air quality permit for its Hillsboro and Aloha campuses. The public comment period wrapped up Monday for that permit, generating about 55 responses, the Department of Environmental Quality’s George Davis said. The […]

  • Tonawanda: Clean Air targets DuPont

    TOWN OF TONAWANDA — Two local organizations called on the DuPont Yerkes plant in the town to improve its environmental controls and reduce its air emissions at a press conference Tuesday. “Simply put, this is about protecting the health and well-being of Western New Yorkers,” said Liz Smith, of the Western New York Council on […]

  • Feds to study Hamilton airport contamination

    Transport Canada has agreed to study the downstream risk from old firefighting pollution found leaching from Hamilton’s airport more than three years ago. Geoff Knapper, the local director for the provincial ministry of environment, announced the pending federal study Friday morning at a city subcommittee. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), a chemical once used in fire suppression […]

  • Stir against pollution in Sonbhadra district’s Singarauli area

    Varanasi: Perturbed by the increasing levels of hazardous pollutants including heavy metals in water, air and soil, the natives of different villages in the Singrauli area of Sonbhadra district formed a forum -Singrauli Pradooshan Mukti Vahini supported by Banwasi Seva Ashram to raise their voice and draw the attention of authorities for strict implementation of […]

  • Water quality and chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in the dry zone region of Sri Lanka: impacts on well-being of village communities and the way forward.

  • Anthropogenic fluorine accumulation in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty regions of New Zealand: comparison of field data with projections.

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