Tag: TCE
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Water board finds new culprit for cancer-causing chemical released in SLO. What’s next?
Photo: Greg Mortka, left and Mark Nishibayashi install a passive soil gas probe near the airport fire station. Areas of the SLO airport were tested July 26, 2016 for TCE [trichloroethylene] in an effort to determine a source of contamination, hundreds of soil probes collected data. David Middlecamp dmiddlecamp@thetribunenews.com It has been nearly three years…
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‘A Civil Action’ Carcinogen Pollutes Tap Water Supplies for 14 Million Americans
Under Trump, EPA Retreats From Proposed Ban on Key Uses of TCE Drinking water supplies for 14 million Americans are contaminated with a cancer-causing industrial solvent made notorious by the book and film "A Civil Action," according to a new EWG analysis of tests from public utilities nationwide. The chemical is trichloroethylene, or TCE. Under…
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EPA: Water at Puerto Rico Superfund site is fit for consumption
Puerto Ricans given water from hazardous site 00:51 (CNN) Water drawn from wells at a hazardous waste site in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico meets federal drinking water standards and is fit for consumption, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a news release on Tuesday. The water being pulled from wells at the Dorado Groundwater Contamination…
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Drinking Nuclear Waste in Albuquerque: They hope you’ll stay silent
Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) and the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) are trying to pull off what some people would call an environmental crime. SNL wants to leave high level nuclear, mixed waste in unlined pits and trenches in a dump that is contaminating our drinking water aquifer. The Environment Department has expressed willingness to…
