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Little done to deter violations of Clean Air Act

Through analysis of Clean Air Act data kept by the Environmental Protection agency, The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) found government regulators have a list of more than 200 facilities […]
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Developers abuse loopholes in Brownfield Cleanup Program

Rick Moriarty of The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) reports on abuses of loopholes in the state's Brownfield Cleanup Program, a law meant to encourage development on contaminated property through tax credits […]
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Leaking underground tanks leave legacy of contamination in Pennsylvania

An investigation of leaky underground storage tanks in the Lehigh Valley by Christopher Baxter and Tim Darragh of The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) found spills left lingering for years or […]
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Ex-residents slow to be notified of toxic water on Marine base

Despite a 2007 law requiring the Marine Corps to notify former residents of Camp Lejeune, N.C. that they may have been exposed to contaminated water between 1957 and 1987, many […]
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Stimulus funds go to troubled corporations

Will Evans of California Watch found large corporations in California are getting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus dollars despite a history of environmental violations and a host […]
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Regulations crippling commercial fishing industry

A Life at Sea/A Life at Risk, a six-part series by The Press of Atlantic City (N.J.), examined the crushing impact of federal and state fishing regulations on New Jersey's […]
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Puerto Rican refinery had history of problems, neglect

Mc Nelly Torres, a freelance journalist, and Omaya Sosa Pascual, of El Centro Periodistico Investigativo de Puerto Rico, report decades of environmental violations, financial distress and neglect behind the company […]
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Clean energy stimulus funds ending up overseas

The latest report from the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American University shows that the majority of clean-energy grants paid out from stimulus funds have gone to overseas companies. "Of […]
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Historical records used to identify forgotten lead smelter

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is opening an investigation of possible lead contamination in an Atlanta neighborhood after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution unearthed old documents showing that a lead smelter spewed […]
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Environmental violations continue due to uneven enforcement

A review of Pennsylvania environmental records by Christopher Baxter of The Morning Call (Allentown, Penn.) found eight years of stop-and-go enforcement by the Department of Environmental Protection that allowed a […]
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