Environmental Protection Agency

The company responsible for the dredging of New Bedford harbor will pay penalties to the EPA for allegedly violating the Ocean Dumping Act. The EPA says Cashman Dredging and Marine Contracting, along with it's joint venture Cashman-Weeks NB, dumped dredged materials outside of designated locations in Portland, Maine and New Bedford...

New Bedford is receiving $400,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency to further study brownfield sites in the city. Michele Paul, director of the city's Office of Environmental Stewardship, says the funding allows her department to assess those contaminated properties, and share the results with the public and potential investors...

The Environmental Protection Agency is changing its plans to dispose of contaminated sediment from New Bedford's harbor cleanup along the shoreline.

A Southeastern Massachusetts power plant recently cited by Federal regulators as one of the state's heaviest polluters is planning to shut down.

As millions of dollars is being directed toward the removal of PCB's from New Bedford Harbor, the E-P-A says it will conduct a feasibility study to determine whether putting contaminated sediment in so-called cad cells along the shoreline is the best way to go...