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• Solar Panel Installation Begins at Allied Chemical & Ironton Coke Superfund Site in Ironton, Ohio

  EPA News Release: Solar Panel Installation Begins at Allied Chemical & Ironton Coke Superfund Site in Ironton, Ohio

  • Release Date: August 25, 2021

• EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  EPA News Release: EPA and MPCA Announce $6M Sediment Cleanup in the St. Louis River Area of Concern in Scanlon, Minnesota

  • Release Date: August 23, 2021

• EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  Nearly $70 million for cleanup and restoration results in Ohio’s first area of concern delisting

  EPA News Release: EPA Removes Ohio’s Ashtabula River from Binational List of Areas of Concern on the Great Lakes

  • Release Date: August 19, 2021

• EPA Order Requires Cahokia Heights, Illinois, to Address Problems with the City’s Sanitary Sewer System

  EPA News Release: EPA Order Requires Cahokia Heights, Illinois, to Address Problems with the City’s Sanitary Sewer System

  • Release Date: August 16, 2021

• Work to start in September at Peoples Gas Crawford Station in Chicago

  Federal officials will provide updates, answer questions at August 17 virtual public meeting

  EPA News Release: Work to start in September at Peoples Gas Crawford Station in Chicago

  • Release Date: August 11, 2021

• EPA Orders Action and Monitoring to Protect Drinking Water for Residents of Cahokia Heights, Illinois

  EPA News Release: EPA Orders Action and Monitoring to Protect Drinking Water for Residents of Cahokia Heights, Illinois

  • Release Date: August 3, 2021

• EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Dredged Material Decision Tool to Help with Sediment Disposal Decisions

  • Release Date: August 3, 2021

• U.S. EPA Begins Hazardous Waste Cleanup at Sebring Industrial Plating Site in Sebring, Ohio

  EPA News Release: U.S. EPA Begins Hazardous Waste Cleanup at Sebring Industrial Plating Site in Sebring, Ohio

  • Release Date: August 2, 2021

• EPA to take comments on proposed cleanup plan for Olin Corp. facility in East Alton, Illinois

  60-day public comment period begins May 26

  EPA News Release: EPA to take comments on proposed cleanup plan for Olin Corp. facility in East Alton, Illinois

  • Release Date: May 26, 2021

• EPA Orders Three Companies in Michigan to Stop Selling Certain Pesticides

  EPA News Release: EPA Orders Three Companies in Michigan to Stop Selling Certain Pesticides

  • Release Date: May 25, 2021

• EPA proposes removing three sites in Bloomington, Indiana, from Superfund List

  Public comment periods begin on proposals regarding Lemon Lane Landfill, Bennett Stone Quarry and Neal’s Landfill Superfund Sites

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes removing three sites in Bloomington, Indiana, from Superfund List

  • Release Date: May 20, 2021

• EPA removes part of Lake Sandy Jo (M&M Landfill) site in Gary, Indiana from Superfund list

  EPA News Release: EPA removes part of Lake Sandy Jo (M&M Landfill) site in Gary, Indiana from Superfund list

  • Release Date: May 19, 2021

• Work to start in June at former Allied Paper Landfill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, as part of EPA’s Superfund cleanup of Kalamazoo River

  Federal, state and city officials will provide updates, answer questions at May 24 virtual public meeting

  EPA News Release: Work to start in June at former Allied Paper Landfill in Kalamazoo, Michigan, as part of EPA’s Superfund cleanup of Kalamazoo River

  • Release Date: May 19, 2021

• EPA Selects Girard, Ohio, to Receive $500,000 Brownfields Grant

  Additional brownfields grant brings statewide total to $800,000 to help Ohio communities Build Back Better

  EPA News Release: EPA Selects Girard, Ohio, to Receive $500,000 Brownfields Grant

  • Release Date: May 18, 2021

• EPA proposes partial deletion of South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination site from Superfund list

  Public comment period ends June 14

  EPA News Release: EPA proposes partial deletion of South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination site from Superfund list

  • Release Date: May 18, 2021