Superfund

The chemical company LyondellBasell, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last January, has offered to pay the federal government $250 million for environmental cleanup at several sites including an 80 mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River that is contaminated with PCBs, Chris Killian reports in the Kalamazoo Gazette.
The PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) contamination of the [...]

PCB contamination around the canals in St. Clair Shores is more severe and more widespread than previously thought, the Detroit News reports.
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of toxic compounds that were used in manufacturing but banned in the U.S. in the 1970s. Exposure to PCBs has been linked to a broad range of health [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed adding the Gratiot County Golf Course to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites, and is inviting the public to comment on the proposed action.
The St. Louis site is among three contaminated areas that Gov. Jennifer Granholm recently asked EPA to add to the National Priorities List.
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Gov. Jennifer Granholm has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to add three contaminated Michigan sites to the National Priorities or Superfund list.
The sites in question are the Du-Well Hartford site in Van Buren County, a former plating company where solvents have leached in the soil and groundwater; the St. Clair Shores drain [...]

Detailed information about a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency strategy for addressing dioxin contamination in the Saginaw Bay watershed is expected at a community meeting in Saginaw on Wednesday evening.

Nearly a month after the onset of a navigational dredging project in the Saginaw River that some worry will send dioxin-contaminated sediments downstream toward the intakes for Bay City’s water supply, EPA officials responded to citizen concerns by announcing it would not test the water for the toxin.

“I can understand why people would be concerned,“ EPA Superfund manager Wendy Carney, said in a phone interview. “But there are a lot of issues out there.”

KALAMAZOO — A day after officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discussed the next phase of work to remove soil and sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, from the Kalamazoo River near the city of Plainwell, the agency made the project official on Tuesday.

Updated, June 9, 3:38 p.m.

PLAINWELL — It might seem like just a small-scale cleanup in a gargantuan overall project to rid the Kalamazoo River of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, but state and federal environmental officials are hailing the next step in the cleanup of the river as the kind of sustained progress that has been sought for decades.

The yet-to-be announced $10 million project will take place at and behind a diversion dam about 2 miles upstream from Plainwell, which is about 10 miles north of Kalamazoo, said Jim Saric, remedial project manager for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

BAY CITY — A regulatory loophole means Great Lakes fish that may contain potentially dangerous levels of cancer causing dioxin are being sold to consumers without warning.

KALAMAZOO — Federal environmental officials announced recently an agreement with Georgia-Pacific Corp. to begin work on capping a Kalamazoo Township landfill filled with material laden with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, part of a federal Superfund cleanup of the Kalamazoo River.