The Missouri Department of Economic Development approved $660,724 in brownfield tax credits for the Chouteau Crossing project in St. Louis. Green Street Properties will be using the money to remove lead paint, asbestos as well as other hazardous substance from a 100,000 square-foot industrial building that was built between 1947 as well as 1970. The [...]
Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, Massachusetts hosted the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) “Look Pleasant, Feel Better” program for cancer patients on April 5. The without charge program taught cancer patients cosmetic techniques that could help them cope with appearance-related side effects from their radiation as well as chemotherapy treatments. Participants all received a without charge makeup [...]
Lansing City Council in Michigan has approved a $797,873 brownfield plan for a development that will include a Sonic restaurant, as well as the Lansing Brownfield Redevelopment Authority has provided an additional $100,000 from its revolving loan fund.
The development is using place at the site of the former Governor’s Inn hotel, which requires asbestos abatement, [...]
The Chisuk Emuna synagogue in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was ravaged by fire a year ago. It has remained boarded up since then. Pews had been scorched, carpeting had been destroyed by water as well as part of the ceiling had collapsed. Sacred Torah scrolls were as well as damaged by the fire, one of them beyond [...]
The California Department of Resources Recycling as well as Recovery is struggling to uncluttered up a problem that has become an eyesore as well as a health problem for the coastal areas. Abandoned commercial vessels litter the shoreline along the delta areas, leaking toxic chemicals, fuel, as well as asbestos into the water as well [...]
In response to accusations leveled by former employees as well as broadcast by local Fox 31 News, Denver Water released a statement addressing concerns that there is cement asbestos pipe buried somewhere near the Foothills Treatment Plant.
The official statement makes the point that the accusations are vague as well as that none of the former [...]
Pain management is of vital concern to patients with cancer, as well as a recent program offers hope for best treatment using a variable approach designed to offer the patient more control through knowledge as well as learned techniques. The SCION-PAIN program will be tested on 240 oncology patients in two hospitals in Germany as [...]
Using a 35-year-old rule, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has told Northshore Mining that they are required to perform air quality testing for asbestos fibers near Silver Bay. Northshore, but, says that the ongoing air testing requirement – which would compare North Shore air to air from St. Paul, the control city – is [...]
The Clinton County legislature has approved $420,000 of funding from New York State as well as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to demolish the aged alert facility at the site of the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base. The base was built in the 1950s as well as closed in 1995. Contaminated with mold, asbestos as [...]
Joseph S. Marcell of Stratford, Connecticut will be paying over $11,000 in civil penalties as well as cleanup costs related to excavation of heavily contaminated soil. Marcell’s mother owns Stratford Self Storage, an undeveloped commercial property that is heavily contaminated with asbestos, lead as well as PCBs. The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) as [...]
