Pulaski Industries Grapple With Corrosive Waste
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By Paul Dellinger paul.dellinger@roanoke.com (276) 228-4752  PULASKI -- Pulaski officials have been meeting with representatives of industries that are releasing the sulfates said to be damaging the Peppers Ferry Regional Wastewater Treatment Authority's plant in Fairlawn.
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Turkey, deer and songbirds abound in a pastoral setting in Roanoke County, but under the surface lies the volatile legacy of an old landfill: explosive gases and contaminated fluids.  The mixture will require daily maintenance for decades and cost taxpayers millions, officials say.
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By R. SCOTT RAPPOLD THE GAZETTE  Pueblo Chemical Depot officials are going ahead with building a plant to treat a hazardous mustard waste on-site instead of shipping some of it elsewhere.   The equipment, costing tens of millions of dollars, might never be used, however.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 20--PASCAGOULA -- Officials with Pascagoula and Jackson County were surprised and disappointed Tuesday when DuPont announced it had started a controversial chemical process before giving the public a chance to learn more about it.
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Still saddled with city's reputation of its gritty industrial past, civic leaders boast of changes.
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Contaminated groundwater tainted with trichloroethylene has led to a  dangerous plume that is now affecting the air quality in homes near the  Behr-Dayton Thermal Products Plant in Dayton, Ohio. The U.S.
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By BETH DeFALCO, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  TRENTON  New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency over air pollution from a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania that drifts across the Delaware River into New Jersey.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Dec. 16--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered FMC Idaho  LLC, a former elemental phosphorous manufacturer in Pocatello, to install a  gas treatment system to reduce phosphine and other gases to safe levels in one  of the company's ponds.
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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 JOHN REID BLACKWELL  A state official tried to ease local residents' concerns about a controversial chemical found in water around DuPont's Spruance plant in Chesterfield County.
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By Whitson, Jennifer  Backers of a proposed $40 million Indianapolis chemical plant are eyeing a south-side parcel near White River, but neighbors worry fumes from the facility will drag down property values nearby.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 13--LAMAR - Kansas' top water official expressed concern about the possibility of a 40-year contract between Aurora and the Bureau of Reclamation at Tuesday's meeting of the Arkansas River Compact Administration.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 9--Shortly after noon today, police removed barricades from most streets surrounding the charred remnants of the Chemcentral Corp. plant in the East Bottoms.
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By Gavin Off, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  May 29--ATHENS, Ohio -- A stream of liquid ran from the plastic trash bag that Zodiac Maslin held outstretched like a dirty diaper.   Then the Ohio University senior set it down, peered inside and announced that its contents looked good.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 20-- -- Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers told federal investigators several years ago about contaminated dirt piles around the factory that in recent months were reported as newly discovered, 32-year employee Chris Naas says.
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By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 19--At the Liberty Tire Recycling facility in Braddock, shredded  pieces of tires accumulate before being frozen with liquid nitrogen and  smashed into even smaller pieces.
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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 21--A worker was hurt in a small hydrochloric acid spill at a Kansas City manufacturing business Wednesday morning.   According to the fire department, the spill happened about 11 a.m.