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Toxic Releases Rose 16 percent in 2010, EPA says

By Juliet Eilperin, Published: January 5

The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment nationwide in 2010 increased 16 percent over the year before, reversing a downward trend in overall toxic releases since 2006, according to a report released Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The spike was driven largely by metal mining, but other sectors — including the chemical industry — also contributed to the rise in emissions, according to the new analysis from the...

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Ruling leaves dioxin cleanup out of Monsanto Trial

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As the trial begins in a major toxic pollution lawsuit against Monsanto Co., jurors won't be allowed to tackle a key issue: Should the company pay to clean up dioxin it allegedly spewed across the city of Nitro?
Experts won't testify about the need for property remediation. Lawyers won't argue about the issue. Jurors won't be asked to force Monsanto to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars such a project could cost.
Judges O.C. Spaulding and Derek Swope issued rulings...

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Mysterious Odor Prompts New Tests at Fort Detrick Landfill

Mysterious Odor Prompts New Tests at Fort Detrick Landfill: MyFoxDC.com

Chemical detected during well drilling at Fort Detrick Deemed Unhazardous

Gazette.Net
Maryland Community News
Published: Monday, November 21, 2011

Preliminary testing has revealed that the release of a carcinogenic dry-cleaning chemical during well drilling at Fort Detrick last week was not enough to be hazardous, according to Detrick attorney Gary Zolyak.
Well drillers at Fort Detrick stopped work on Nov. 16 after detecting an odor that turned out to be tetracholoroethene, known as PCE, used commonly as a dry-cleaning solvent.
Water and air samples were sent to...

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Workers detect odor in Area B

Originally published November 20, 2011

Workers in Fort Detrick's Area B this week noticed an odor coming from a monitoring well they were installing, the military base's public affairs office said Saturday.

The drilling was being done Wednesday in an area contaminated with trichloroethylene and cerchloroethylene, chemicals commonly used in cleaning and degreasing, according to a news release from the office.

The chemicals were found to be leaking from a Detrick landfill at Area B in 1992...

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Mysterious Odor Detected At Fort Detrick Area B

Fort Detrick officials order tests after odor at Landfill Well

The Associated Press

1:44 p.m. EST, November 20, 2011
Fort Detrick officials say tests are being conducted after workers noticed an odor coming from a monitoring well being installed at a landfill.

Officials announced Saturday that workers were drilling in a section of the installation called Area B, which is contaminated with chemicals, as part of a groundwater contamination investigation when they noticed the odor Wednesday.

Officials say detection of such vapors isn't unusual during...

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Baltimore Sun 10/3/2011

Cancer cluster not shown near Fort Detrick, says state, but activists complain analysis doesn't precede 1992

FREDERICK ——
Neighbors of Fort Detrick were not diagnosed with cancer in greater numbers than the broader population of Frederick County during the period for which data are available, state health officials told the community Monday. But local activists said the state's analysis does not capture the history of cancer around the Army base because it does not take into account...

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