[CPEO-BIF] "Toxic Legacy: Brownfields Cleanup in Wyoming"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Legacy: Brownfields Cleanup in Wyoming

By Gregory Nickerson
WyoFile (WY)
September 25?, 2012

No one has made an accurate count of the number of contaminated sites  
across the state of Wyoming, according to Vicki Meredith, program  
supervisor for the Voluntary Remediation Program at the Wyoming  
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).

"I really couldn't guess how many contaminated sites there are across  
the state. If you stop to think about all the potential, it would be  
thousands of sites across Wyoming," said Meredith.

Those polluted sites are the legacy of oil wells, pipeline spills,  
leaky underground storage tanks, refineries, junkyards, dry cleaners,  
and numerous other chemical installations.

...

For the entire article, see
http://wyofile.com/2012/09/rural-renewal-brownfields-cleanup-in-wyoming/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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