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Clark Magnet teacher wins coveted award
Clark Magnet High School teacher Dominique Evans-Bye is one of 11 teachers across the country — and the only one in California — to win a coveted environmental award that honors her innovative and hands-on approach to teaching science. An...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Students, Environmental Issues, Education, Teachers
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Crescenta Valley Water District win settlements
The Crescenta Valley Water District has bagged two more multimillion-dollar settlements from oil companies that officials claim leaked a contaminant into the local groundwater supply. So far, the district has penned three settlement agreements totaling...Tags: Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Chevron Corportion, Lyondell Chemical Company
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Water contamination study nears end
After more than a decade and nearly $9 million, Glendale is nearing the end of its research into the water contaminant chromium 6. After the City Council this week approved using $536,000 to put the final touches on the research project, officials said...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Education
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Disney chromium 6 discharge 'within guidelines'
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board has concluded an investigation into contamination on the site of the Walt Disney Studios, a senior board official said. The agency’s decision comes a day after the Los Angeles Times reported that...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Environmental Issues, Walt Disney, Cancer
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Water probe involves Disney
Federal and state regulators are investigating whether a vintage air conditioning system at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank played a role in contaminating groundwater with chromium 6, a cancer-causing heavy metal widely used in aerospace manufacturing...
Tags: Health Organizations, Science and Technology, Medical Research, Lockheed Martin Corp., Cancer
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Think Again: It takes some sleuthing to filter out the lies
Even if you don’t get into politics, you can’t escape the effects of a strange zone we are in these days where everything seems to be polarized to extreme views. Good luck trying to find reason, rationality or critical thinking. Economic...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, White House, Environmental Issues, Jon Stewart, Companies and Corporations
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Ron Kaye: Fighting against a rigged game
If the government’s up to something strange in your neighborhood and you think you have a case, who you gonna call? You’re gonna call Silverstein, of course. That’s what George Brokate, a 73-year-old former Marine captain and Vietnam...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Environmental Politics, Justice System, Justice System
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Schiff turns up the heat on EPA to release chromium 6 report
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would set a deadline for establishing a new federal cap on chromium 6 contamination in drinking water. The move comes two weeks after the congressman called on the Environmental...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Environmental Issues, National Institutes of Health, Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Chromium 6 cleanup slated for contaminated lot
Despite efforts to stop it, the chemical Chromium 6 has been seeping into Glendale groundwater for years at the site of a defunct plating company. By early next month, that will start to change. Ralphs Grocery Co. plans to finalize the purchase of the...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Science and Technology, Environmental Issues, Cancer
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Glendale Water & Power to test chromium 6 filtration method
Glendale Water & Power has started testing a new filtration method to strip chromium 6 from groundwater and plans to start the process for other techniques next month. Previous methods have had some drawbacks, prompting the fresh approaches....Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Environmental Issues, California Water Service Group, Cancer
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EPA digs into city's chromium 6 levels
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to install 30 wells in the Glendale-Burbank region in March to monitor levels of chromium 6 in underground water to get a fuller picture of how extensive the contamination is.
The move is another step in the...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Environmental Issues, Cancer, Metal
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Contamination fight heats up
After sitting for a while on simmer, a legal battle between the Crescenta Valley Water District and a consortium of gas companies regarding contaminated groundwater is coming to a slow boil.
The 2007 case has been meandering through the court system,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Chevron Corportion, Justice System, Justice System
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