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Libby Montana : EPA Ordered Cleanup and Intervention is Dramatic 180 Degree Turn in Policy | The Moderate Voice The Obama administration has a new take on the duties and budgets of the EPA, not only different, but startlingly so, from previous admins who used the stalling technique for decades to deal with citizens very real chargers re * Agent Orange exposure during Nam Black Lung out of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and more * >Radiation exposure deaths in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona * Water contamination of cadmium and other heavy minerals, Brownsville * Land contamination by uranium heaps, Rocky Flats, Colorado * Johns Manville, asbestos contamination * Trailer industry, formaldehyde contamination * Libby Montana, asbestos contamination. Read this and many more erosion control news

Barack Obama pledges $475 million for next year Cleaning up toxic substances and "areas of concern": $146.9 million, or 31 percent. The EPA will control most of the spending ($113.9 million), reducing toxins, including PCBs, mercury, dioxin and pesticides. The Army Corps of Engineers will get another $10 million for this task, and with other agencies will help remove contaminated sediment and other industrial pollution that hampers places like the Cuyahoga and Ashtabula rivers and Lake Erie harbors. Read this and more erosion news

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