Energy Secretary Chu Announces $6 Billion in Recovery Act Funding for Environmental Cleanup

[IDemo]

Source: US Department of Energy


New Funding Will Create Jobs and Accelerate Cleanup Efforts

WASHINGTON, DC -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced $6 billion in new funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate environmental cleanup work and create thousands of jobs across 12 states. Projects identified for funding will focus on accelerating cleanup of soil and groundwater, transportation and disposal of waste, and cleaning and demolishing former weapons complex facilities.

“These investments will put Americans to work while cleaning up contamination from the cold war era,” said Secretary Chu. “It reflects our commitment to future generations as well as to help local economies get moving again.”

These projects and the new funding are managed by the Department’s Office of Environmental Management, which is responsible for the risk reduction and cleanup of the environmental legacy from the nation’s nuclear weapons program, one of the largest, most diverse and technically complex environmental programs in the world.

The states and DOE sites that will receive this funding include: (details at link)

Read more: http://www.oakridge.doe.gov/External/DesktopModules/NewsStory/NewsRelease.aspx?id=9480&pid=0&type=35

[Botany]

1. That damn Obama

Less cancers, a cleaner environment, clean groundwater, and jobs ..... when will this madman stop?

And just today I heard he wants to talk to people in the mid east instead of bombing them ..... :grr:

[cliffordu]

4. I told you we couldn't trust the bastid!!!

[Odin2005]

2. Good! n/t

[FrenchieCat]

3. Good things don't get talked about,

They are just taken for granted!

[eridani]

6. The OP refutes that

Obama has done plenty of good things so far. Doesn't mean we should give up on pressuring him to cut the non-producing financial sector down to size, though.

[SpartanDem]

5. This is why I love our president