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Bloggers Mine Irony of Gore School's Contamination

(Sept. 8) -- Conservative bloggers are abuzz over what they see as a delicious irony: A Los Angeles school named for environmentalist Al Gore was apparently built on contaminated soil. The Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences is jointly named after the former vice president and Rachel Carson, the late writer...

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06/02/12 Event marks end of arsenic cleanup Source: Star Tribune - Minneapolis MN The Environmental Protection Agency has finished its cleanup of contaminated soil in the Seward and Longfellow neighborhoods in Minneapolis and will hold a public ceremony marking the occasion.
06/02/12 State identifies 15 contaminated wells in Atkinson Source: The Eagle-Tribune - North Andover MA A cancer-causing contaminant may not have spread beyond the wells of a few homes in town.
06/01/12 City Wins New Grant to Continue Brownfields Program Source: Wauwatosa Patch - Wauwatosa WI Wauwatosa has again won a federal grant to address brownfields, properties contaminated by former uses.
06/01/12 Progress made in Northvale at contaminated site. Source: Environmental Health News The contaminated TECT/Danzig property on Livingston Street, which has long been considered an eyesore for the borough, is finally beginning its journey into redevelopment.
05/31/12 Onondaga Lake cleanup to meet major milestone Source: CBS - WTVH 5 - Syracuse NY The cleanup of Onondaga Lake is about to meet a major milestone, and top state and federal officials are coming to the shoreline in Liverpool to "celebrate" it according to a media advisory.