Toxic Property? Start Talkin': Bill Would Make Sellers of Foreclosed Homes Reveal Any Contamination
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 10--Lenders who foreclose on contaminated properties would have to disclose hazards to buyers under a bill being considered in the Legislature.  "This is just huge moral issue in my view," said state Sen. Karen Fraser, D-Olympia.
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Here's an uncomfortable housing  scenario that's getting more common in this soft market: You  put in a contract on a new house. You can't sell your old  house. The sellers are getting pushy.
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By Anna M. Tinsley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 8--Safety signs. Fire extinguishers. Better inventories of hazardous chemicals.
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By Chris Bowman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 24--When it comes to fireside chats, local air pollution control officials believe money will talk louder than words.
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Science & environment: DIY chain to stop selling environmentally damaging heaters once current stock is sold off
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CHICAGO -- The lead author and peer reviewers of a government report raising the possibility of public health threats from industrial contamination throughout the Great Lakes region are charging that the report is being suppressed because of the questions it raises. The author also alleges that he...
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By Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- It will cost at least $12 billion to clean up contamination from tens of thousands of gasoline storage tanks that are leaking underground, congressional auditors say.
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Mortgage brokers and other loan sellers would be named in a national database under legislation introduced Thursday by the top Republican on a U.S. House of Representatives financial panel.
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.
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Anne Arundel County and state officials are calling for federal authorities to clean up a former pharmaceutical factory that holds more than 50,000 gallons of hazardous chemicals and could have devastating effects if it catches fire.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE\\ Staff Writer  SANTA CLARITA -- Cancer-causing chemicals still in the soil and groundwater at a former Saugus plastics plant make the property eligible for the federal Superfund cleanup program, the Environmental Protection Agency has found.
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By GARY PERILLOUX  Two bills that would benefit forest-product makers have drawn the ire of the Louisiana Chemical Association because its membership wouldn't get the same deal.
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By Tatiana Prophet, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 14--Fo r 1 1 c i t i e s i n S a n Bernardino County, the prospect of paying a surcharge for a chemical that did not originate in their areas just doesn't seem right.
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Homeowners now have a new tool to make better decisions about testing for radon, the radioactive gas that seeps into homes from the earth.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 11  /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has scheduled three open-house-style neighborhood meetings to answer questions and update residents about the ongoing South Minneapolis Soil Contamination sampling and cleanup project.
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A report presented to the House Government Reform Committee shows that the Food and Drug Administration discovered contamination at the Chiron Corp.
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News flash: Realtors may be biased toward real estate.