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The Environmental Protection Agency is giving the go ahead to the city of New Bedford to re-mediate 3 properties in the area near the Keith Middle School.

The Buzzards Bay Coalition and Hands Across The Tiver are making a final push to secure signatures on a petition, seeking a "reopener" clause in the recently announced settlement to clean New Bedford Harbor.  The settlement calls for A-V-X to pay $366 million to finish the dredging and removal of PCB's from the harbor...

No other means are being considered to clean up New Bedford's harbor other than the use of CAD Cells.

The South Terminal Maritime Project planned for the New Bedford Harbor has been legitimized by the EPA.

New Bedford's City Council is taking a firm stance against the E-P-A's plans for removing P-C-B's from the Upper Harbor. The full council went on record Thursday in opposition to the government's plan to dredge contaminated soil and place it into a so-called "CAD Cell", burying it within the harbor...

Is $366 Million dollars enough to clean up New Bedford Harbor? Buzzards Bay Coalition president Mark Rasmussen doesn't think so.

The EPA is still mulling over the South Terminal Maritime Project, a decision that will either give approval to the construction phase, or stall it. Nevertheless, engineers with Apex Companies LLC have already drawn up remediation plans for the site just north of the hurricane barrier, as low concentration PCB pockets are scattered on land and in the harbor...

Local environmentalists aren't happy with the fine print of a settlement between the E-P-A and AVX Corp. to speed up the removal of pcb's from New Bedford Harbor.  Under the settlment, AVX will pay $366 million, an amount that city officials say will cut the cleanup time from 40 years to about seven years...

The parent company of Aerovox has reached a settlement with the EPA regarding the New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site.

The EPA has awarded the City of New Bedford  a $200,000 grant to clean up a long-time Brownfields Site at 478-to-480 Union Street, a former gas station and service garage that shut down in the late 70's.  Mayor Jon Mitchell says the grant will make the city cleaner, and help revitalize the surrounding neighborhood...