About 80 people who crowded into the Varina Area Library Wednesday for a meeting with local, state and federal officials had some of their environmental concerns eased but left with other questions unanswered. The good news: a Varina sterilization plant identified last year by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
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The two environmental organizations that filed a citizen lawsuit in December against Henrico County, alleging that the county has repeatedly violated the Clean Water Act during the past three decades, now are challenging the decision of a federal judge who ruled in April that their suit could not subject Henrico
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Only two private wells among the 259 tested by Henrico County in recent months for dangerous chemicals known as PFAS returned levels higher than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s health advisory level of 70 parts per trillion, county officials said Mar. 4. Twenty-eight wells had some levels of
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The presence of dangerous chemicals known as PFAS in Eastern Henrico, potentially stemming in part or full from former military operations at Richmond International Airport, first was identified more than four years ago and subsequently documented by a federal report in May 2019, but that report apparently never made it
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Henrico and state officials first learned in late October that significantly elevated levels of potentially dangerous chemicals known as PFAS were present in the White Oak Swamp and Chickahominy River basin near Richmond International Airport in Eastern Henrico – but some federal officials knew at least six months earlier, the Citizen
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