World & Nation
Beneath a series of grassy hills along Niagara Falls Boulevard--odd landforms in this monotonously flat cityscape--are PCB-fouled transformers from Pennsylvania, chemically poisoned earth from Michigan and myriad byproducts from more than 2,000 factories across America.
Jan. 27, 1985
Ohio environmental officials closed one of the nation’s largest hazardous waste landfills Thursday, saying that a geologist’s report indicates the site near Cincinnati is leaking toxic chemicals into underground water supplies.
May 10, 1985
Business
General Motors Corp. and two landfill operators face fines of up to $35 million for burying sludge containing cancer-causing PCBs in New York, Ohio and Alabama, the government said Monday.
March 19, 1991
Operators of a commercial hazardous waste facility in Louisiana have agreed to pay a record $2.5 million to settle a federal and state lawsuit, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday.
Aug. 13, 1988
The Environmental Protection Agency, engaging in a kind of shell game that points up a growing national dilemma, is quietly considering a plan to ship thousands of tons of toxic waste excavated from a “superfund” cleanup site to another landfill that may itself be leaking.
Jan. 11, 1985
Foothill Corp. said its Foothill Capital unit agreed to guarantee as much as $35 million of new credit for Boston-based Robertson-Ceco Corp. over the next five years.
April 20, 1993
California
John Joseph (Pop) Nolan, father of Assemblyman Pat Nolan (R-Glendale), has died in Burbank.
Jan. 9, 1992
Jan. 7, 1992
May 16, 1943: Howard Hughes was conducting a test flight of an experimental seaplane when it suddenly nosedived and crashed into Lake Mead in Nevada.
May 16, 2006
Autos
Ford Motor said it has reached a preliminary agreement to sell its automotive paint operations to Du Pont for an undisclosed amount . . .
April 16, 1986