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Map of Warren County from a 1983 United States General Accounting Office report, asterisk denotes PCB landfill site. The controversy dated back to 1978, when a transformer company in Raleigh began to dump industrial waste containing PCBs along rural roads in fifteen North Carolina counties rather than pay for proper disposal.
This is a list of Superfund sites in North Carolina designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. . The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations
The IT Corporation was awarded the contract, with their bid of 13.5 million dollars. Phase I of the cleanup process began, and the contract was signed in March 2001. The IT Corporation was bought by the Shaw Group in May 2002 and changed their name to Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure. The equipment was sent to the landfill in May 2002, and ...
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Some environmental lawyers believe that state environmental regulators have more authority than they use to weigh pollution already released in a community before allowing more.
NC regulators want to start adopting new standards for forever chemicals in the environment, but the business community is worried about the cost. New rules on GenX, other forever chemical water ...
The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) is an agency of the government of North Carolina that focuses on the preservation and protection of natural resources and public health. The department is headed by the Secretary of Environmental Quality, who is appointed by the Governor of North Carolina and is a member of the ...
N.C. Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Elizabeth Biser, right, and U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox tour the Wilmington-area Cape Fear Public Utility Authority’s under ...