The settlement resolves funding sources for the continued dredging, sediment capping and long-term remediation along the city’s industrial river corridor, a declared Superfund site.
State environment agency also ordered a revision of disposal permit for the site's underground repository to increase the volume of Los Alamos waste sent there.
DuPont agrees to $2B remediation at four toxic sites—including 1.500-acre former flagship Chambers Works plant—while Occidental appeals court ruling of major liability for $1.8B cleanup of heavily polluted Passaic River.
DuPont signs $2B-plus PFAS remediation pact at former plant sites, while Occidental other digs in to fight liability ruling for $1.84B river dredge project
Duke Energy has reached a settlement with the North Carolina Attorney General, the Sierra Club and Public Staff of the North Carolina Utilities Commission over coal-ash cleanup costs.
Under a new settlement with state regulators, communities and environmental groups, Duke Energy will spend $3.5 billion to close its last nine coal-ash storage impoundments in North Carolina, bringing the company’s cost of closing all of its coal-ash sites in North and South Carolina to between $8 billion and $9 billion.
EnergySolutions will gain long shut reactor's license and $871-million cleanup fund in goal to accelerate decommissioning; nearby Unit 1 is not part of deal.
After 17-year, $17B saga, Bechtel's recast waste glassification megaproject at U.S. Hanford site readies for first startup, but unresolved issues remain.
Many previously identified problems continue to plague the complex waste treatment plant being built to immobilize much of the 54 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste stored at the U.S. Energy Dept.’s Hanford site in Washington state, prompting government investigators to recommend stopping work on the $17-billion project, underway since 2002, when those problems recur.