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Focus Associated Press – December 17 President-elect Joe Biden this Thursday selected Michael S. Regan to serve as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Regan is a North Carolina regulator who made his name pursuing cleanups of industrial toxins and helping low-income and minority communities hit hardest by pollution. Regan led the negotiations in North Carolina that resulted in the cleanup of the Cape Fear River, which has been contaminated by PFAS industrial compounds from a chemical plant, and negotiated what North Carolina says was the largest cleanup agreement for toxic coal ash, with Duke Energy. Regan previously spent almost a decade at the EPA, including managing a national program for air pollution issues. ....
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Lockheed Martin set to perform state-ordered cleanup of toxic substances in San Diego Bay [The San Diego Union-Tribune] Following extensive litigation and investigation, Lockheed Martin is expected to soon begin work on a state-ordered and court-mandated environmental remediation project meant to clean up a portion of San Diego Bay’s Harbor Island East Basin that was subject to decades of pollution. Last week, Port of San Diego Commissioners voted unanimously to certify the project’s environmental impact report and to issue a coastal development permit for demolition work and sediment remediation. The actions pave the way for the aerospace and defense firm to tear down its 54-year-old marine terminal building at 1160 Harbor Island Drive (across the street from the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina) early next year. Shortly thereafter it will remove and replace sand in the basin contaminated by cancer-causing polychlorinated biph ....
Print Following extensive litigation and investigation, Lockheed Martin is expected to soon begin work on a state-ordered and court-mandated environmental remediation project meant to clean up a portion of San Diego Bay’s Harbor Island East Basin that was subject to decades of pollution. Last week, Port of San Diego Commissioners voted unanimously to certify the project’s environmental impact report and to issue a coastal development permit for demolition work and sediment remediation. The actions pave the way for the aerospace and defense firm to tear down its 54-year-old marine terminal building at 1160 Harbor Island Drive (across the street from the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina) early next year. Shortly thereafter it will remove and replace sand in the basin contaminated by cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls and mercury. ....