Topic: Environmental Cleanup

Farmers, EPA clash over Chesapeake Bay regulations

Stricter Chesapeake Bay rules may hurt farmers, who say they’re already doing their part to clean it up.

Seven reasons investors sweat math in BP oil spill

In response to the BP oil spill, House Speaker Pelosi called on Friday for lifting a cap on economic damages that firms can face after an oil spill.

As BP oil spill spreads, 1,500 fishing boats to aid relief

The Coast Guard's Adm. Thad Allen told reporters the BP oil spill has broken into many smaller patches of oil across the Gulf of Mexico.

After oil spill cleanup, will we tighten the laws?

As the BP oil spill cleanup continued last week, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) proposed new legislative action that would raise the BP's liability. Are we entering a new era of increased regulation?

BP oil spill: rethinking how we craft environmental policy

The BP oil spill demonstrates that environmental and social costs must be taken into consideration when forming policy regulating off-shore oil drilling.

Gulf oil spill: Questions unanswered, residents try legal action

State attorneys general, commercial fishing organizations, and environmental groups are pressing BP to provide more information on the cause of the massive Gulf oil spill.

EPA adds 10 sites to the Superfund list

The EPA added 10 sites to the Superfund priority list this week and eight more to its waiting list.

Native grasses an explosive idea for cleaning contaminated soil

Chesapeake Bay left up a creek

Failure of cleanup efforts has left America's largest estuary still nearly 'dead.' Why?

What exactly is the toxic sludge that spilled in Tennessee?

A mixture of water and fly ash, a residue that is captured in the chimneys of coal-fired power plants.

Environmentalists send their wish list to Obama

Twenty-eight green groups compile 359 pages of suggestions, hoping for a green revival post-Bush.

Pentagon to EPA: You and what army?

The Washington Post reports that the Pentagon is refusing orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up three sites where it dumped chemicals that the EPA says have contaminated soil and drinking water and pose "imminent and substantial" dangers to public health.