Developer face lawsuit charging they reneged on contract to buy land along Gowanus Canal

Developer Toll Brothers has been hit with a multimillion- dollar lawsuit charging it reneged on a contract to buy land along the polluted Gowanus Canal after the feds moved to make the waterway a Superfund site.

Sewers at Capacity, Waste Poisons Waterways

Many sewer systems are frequently overwhelmed, with sewage spilling into waterways and polluting them with excrement and industrial chemicals.

EPA: No decision yet for Gowanus

The fate of the Gowanus Canal will remain in limbo, as the Environmental Protection Agency told this paper it will not be handing down a decision this week on whether to name the foul waterway a Superfund site.

Save the eerie canal: Leave the cleanup of Gowanus waters to the city

The blossoming neighborhoods along Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal face becoming dead zones – but not because of anything in the waterway’s famously polluted murk.

EPA River Clean-Up Uncovers Pools of Cancer-Causing PCBs

A controversial Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) dredging project in the Hudson River — originally designed to prevent cancer-causing chemicals in the riverbed from contaminating fish — has struck “oil,” so to speak – a toxic “oil” of previously unknown pockets of liquid polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

State caught in ‘Superflop’

The Paterson administration has backed away from its surprise call last year to have the federal government lead a Superfund clean-up of the Gowanus Canal — and now says the Environmental Protection Agency should “carefully review” an alternate proposal from Mayor Bloomberg for decontaminating the waterway.

DEC: Careful review of Gowanus alternative needed

 The agency that initially requested the feds to include the Gowanus Canal in the Superfund program is now advising careful consideration of the city’s alternative clean-up plan.

Raretan Bay a Superfund Site

In response to a request from the public, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended the period of time open for community input on the proposal to add the Raritan Bay Slag site to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL).

First shipment of toxic sludge from Hudson River being unloaded in West Texas

Crews are still unloading the first 81-car train load of toxic sludge sucked out of New York’s Hudson River into specially dug storage pits at a West Texas waste disposal site.

Fight Over Superfunding Grows

 It’s the battle for the Gowanus Canal.

City Proposes New Plan for Gowanus Canal Cleanup

The canal is contaminated with pollutants that include pesticides and metals, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Gowanus Canal clean up tab for city?

The city could be on the hook to help pay for a federal Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, officials said.

City’s plan won’t fully clean up polluted Gowanus Canal, as Bloomberg fights to keep feds out

The city has only $15 million to dredge one-tenth of the polluted Gowanus Canal – and the cleanup won’t even go deep enough to remove toxic sludge from the 1.8-mile waterway, the Daily News has learned.

EPA Applauds Environmental Champions from New York

In conjunction with Earth Day, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented Environmental Quality Awards to representatives from 26 projects across New York State for their efforts to protect the environment.

New York Seeks End to Sewage Discharges by Boats In Long Island’s South Shore Estuary

DEC Applauds Partnership to Establish “No Discharge Zone” Designation And Improve Water Quality, Protect Recreation

Gowanus developer to pull out if EPA designates polluted canal a Superfund site

A developer approved to build controversial housing along the Gowanus Canal says it will likely abandon the project if the feds designate the polluted waterway a Superfund site.

EPA eyes Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal

The federal Environmental Protection Agency is proposing that Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal be placed on its Superfund National Priorities List.

Lead contaminates site of former plant on Staten Island

Federal Environmental Protection Agency officials confirmed yesterday what residents have feared for decades about a former industrial site on the waterfront near Port Richmond Avenue: There is a dangerously high level of lead in the soil.

EPA head announces new port emissions proposal

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency wants to limit emissions along the nation’s coastline and within its seaports,

Groups sue EPA, want tougher ship discharge rules

Environmentalists sued the federal government Monday over new rules that critics say do too little to prevent cargo ships from dumping invasive species into the nation’s waterways.