Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Blue Tee to pay for mine site cleanup

  March 9, 2010 in City on Page A5 Blue Tee Corp. will pay $1.36 million to clean up a mining Superfund site in Stevens County. The company operated a mine and milling facility near the community of Leadpoint …

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  EPA adds lead rules to painters’ prep work

  February 3, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 Spokane’s South Hill provides painting contractor Shon Vantuyl with most of his clients. Many of the Craftsman-style homes he works on date to the early 1900s, when lead was a … 2

• Coeur d’Alene Basin mining cleanup hastened

  January 15, 2010 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – Cleanup of contaminated residential yards and other properties in the Coeur d’Alene Basin is so far ahead of schedule that Idaho lawmakers on Thursday authorized speeding up spending …

• EPA pushes smog limits

  January 8, 2010 in Idaho on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing a Bush-era limit that ran counter to scientific recommendations. The new limits – which are …

• Spokane, Kootenai could violate EPA’s stricter smog limits

  January 7, 2010 in Nation/World, Idaho, Region The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed stricter health standards for smog, replacing a Bush-era limit that ran counter to scientific recommendations. 9

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  EPA moving to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

  December 8, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Obama administration moved closer Monday to issuing regulations on greenhouse gases, a step that would enable it to limit emissions across the economy even if Congress fails … 2

• EPA hopes coal cleanup lets U.S. breathe easier

  November 25, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency is continuing its crackdown on coal pollution with a new plan to cut sulfur dioxide – a move that would clean up the air …

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  Libby official alleges EPA fraud

  November 13, 2009 in City on Page A9 BILLINGS – A city councilman in Libby said Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency owes the asbestos-plagued Superfund community $2 million for the demolition of several contaminated buildings. The city-owned …

• Sandpoint byway erosion control draws EPA’s scrutiny, complaint

  October 16, 2009 in Idaho on Page A7 The Idaho Transportation Department is again in trouble with the federal regulators over faulty erosion controls at a U.S. Highway 95 construction project. An inspector with the U.S. Environmental Protection …

• EPA issues fines in Sand Creek Byway project

  October 14, 2009 in Idaho The federal Environmental Protection Agency has fined the Idaho Transportation Department and a contractor the state hired for work on the Sand Creek Byway in northern Idaho. 1

• EPA unveils climate change proposal

  October 1, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday unveiled a detailed proposal for using the government’s regulatory powers to curb greenhouse gas emissions – reassuring foreign allies on the U.S. …

• Sterling Mining hit with $50,000 fine

  September 29, 2009 in Idaho Sterling Mining Co. has been fined $50,000 for violations of its federal pollution discharge permit at the Sunshine Mine and Mill complex in Idaho’s Silver Valley.

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  Repository shipments begin

  September 29, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Shipments of mine waste started arriving at the East Mission Flats repository Monday, after a top Superfund official endorsed a plan to store 40,000 truckloads of soil tainted with heavy … 1

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  Waste storage a toxic topic

  August 12, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 CATALDO, Idaho – A blue heron rose from behind a screen of cattails near Old Mission State Park, while a redwing blackbird let out a raspy call. East Mission Flats …

• Hanford considered for national mercury storage

  July 7, 2009 in Region The Hanford nuclear reservation is one of seven sites the Energy Department is considering as a national, long-term storage site for mercury.

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  W. Central Spokane yards retested for asbestos

  July 1, 2009 in Idaho on Page A1 Yards near W.R. Grace’s former Zonolite factory in Spokane are being retested for asbestos with new technology that can detect the cancer-causing fibers at ever lower levels. For Kandi Smith, …

• Editorial: Libby action slightly better late than never

  June 21, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to declare a public health emergency in Libby, Mont., sounds familiar, it’s because the feds were seemingly on the verge of doing that …

• Greenhouse gas emission regulations sought by EPA

  March 11, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed establishing a nationwide system for reporting greenhouse gas emissions, a program that could serve as the basis for a federal cap …

• EPA launches coal ash review

  March 10, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday launched a review of coal ash storage facilities and said it would draft regulations for coal ash by the end of the year. In …

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  EPA reconsiders coal emissions

  February 18, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday said it would reopen the possibility of regulating carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, tossing aside a December Bush administration memorandum …

• EPA investigating Sand Creek Byway work

  February 1, 2009 in City on Page B3 SANDPOINT – The Environmental Protection Agency is investigating whether the Idaho Transportation Department has done unauthorized work on the Sand Creek Byway in North Idaho. A site inspection was sparked …

• EPA, Ecology delay permits

  December 12, 2008 in Idaho on Page B2 New permits to reduce the flow of phosphorus into the Spokane River are still at least a year away, federal officials reiterated Thursday. “We are mindful of the urgency factor,” …

• EPA expanding cleanup of Coeur d’Alene Basin

  November 19, 2008 in City on Page B1 The massive mine-waste cleanup in the Coeur d’Alene River Basin will be broadened to make sure ecological contamination is addressed along with human health risks, officials from the U.S. Environmental …