April 13, 2016 SPILL ALERT: Teck Smelter, Trail B.C. Due to a failure of a sump pump at Teck Smelter in B.C., leachate from an old landfill and arsenic storage area has been released into Stony Creek, which discharges into the Columbia River. The specific toxins and the amounts released is not yet known at... Continue Reading →
WA Judges Skeptical that Superfund Includes Teck Smelter’s Airborne Waste- SERIOUSLY
From Toxics Law Reporter By Steven M. Sellers April 6 — A Ninth Circuit panel appeared disinclined to find that the Superfund law includes contaminants that traveled by air from a Canadian smelter onto a contaminated U.S. site. The seemingly skeptical three-judge panel considered sharply contrasting oral arguments on how far the U.S. hazardous waste... Continue Reading →
Ecology’s Air Monitoring Results from 1992 – 1998 and 2017 Assessment
The WA Department of Ecology’s air monitoring studies completed in Northport from 1992-1998 showed extremely elevated levels of arsenic (200 times higher than the national standard), and cadmium. Below is a Summary of Ecology’s Northport Air Quality Studies, Phases I – IV, (1992-1998). Reference the agency acronyms and safety level to understand results: Ecology / EPA... Continue Reading →
SUPERFUND: THE SHORTCUT THAT FAILED
Excerpt from Jane Shaw's 1996 paper: "Superfund: The shortcut that failed" "Even EPA Administrator Carol Browner, supervisor of the program in the Clinton administration, has criticized the program as one that "frequently moves too slowly, cleans up too little, has an unfair liability scheme and costs too much." - Carol Browner, EPA Administrator of Superfund... Continue Reading →
Runaway Train
Small communities through-out the United States are slowly, and unknowingly, being poisoned. The poisons are unavoidable. The residents are exposed to them from the air and dust they breath, the water they drink, the soil they grow gardens in, and the small particulate matter that they absorb through their skin. There is no where to... Continue Reading →
Teck held accountable for airborne pollution – per Court ruling
Mining Co. Must Face Airborne Pollution Claims, Court Told By Caroline Simson Law360, New York (October 14, 2015, 7:04 PM ET) -- Mining Co. Must Face Airborne Pollution The federal government and a California state agency urged the Ninth Circuit Tuesday to affirm that a Canadian mining company must face allegations from Washington state and... Continue Reading →