GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The third year of dredging at the polluted Fox River could end as early as next week after a federal judge raised questions about who’s liable for the cleanup. Paper company Appleton and NCR Corp. ...

Tagged with: Appleton Papers cleanup Department of Natural Resources DNR Environmental Protection Agency EPA Fox River NCR Corp. PCB PCBs

Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Forgiving $29,900 in back taxes on a contaminated half-acre in West Allis is the only way Milwaukee County can avoid a $150,000 demolition bill for a building on the land. The building at 1928 S. 62nd St. ...

Tagged with: cleanup contamination demolition development Milwaukee County property tax West Allis Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

By JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Activists say they’re dissatisfied with President Barack Obama’s spending plan for Great Lakes cleanup and will ask Congress for more money. Obama successfully requested $475 million for the Great ...

Tagged with: cleanup Great Lakes Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition jobs Obama

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Green Bay has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to make 20 companies and governmental units share in the massive costs of cleaning up the lower Fox River. U.S. District Judge William ...

Tagged with: cleanup Fox River PCBs

By Sean Ryan A state program that puts contractors to work cleaning hazardous waste spills also sends agents after builders that violate the rules. In a case settled this week in Clark County, the state did both on the same ...

Tagged with: cleanup Department of Natural Resources hazardous waste remediation

Lisa Cornwell AP Writer Cincinnati (AP) — Department of Energy officials confirmed Tuesday they cannot grant a loan guarantee to a company that was developing a uranium enrichment plant project in southern Ohio, saying the project has promise but they ...

Tagged with: cleanup Department of Energy loan Ohio

John Flesher AP Environmental Writer Traverse City, MI — Federal officials are preparing for a series of public meetings to discuss President Barack Obama’s initiative to restore the Great Lakes, an ecosystem battered by invasive species, toxic pollution and other ...

Tagged with: Alliance for the Great Lakes cleanup ecosystem Environmental Protection Agency Great Lakes Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition President Barack Obama

Shannon Dininny AP Writer Richland, WA (AP) — Workers at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site are approaching a key turning point in building a massive waste treatment plant, more than two years after the project was halted over seismic ...

Tagged with: cleanup nuclear

John Flesher AP Environmental Writer Traverse City, MI — A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and removal of toxic sediments from river bottoms around the Great Lakes. The spending represents ...

Tagged with: cleanup Environment Environmental Protection Agency erosion Great Lakes Obama pollution restoration