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The Attorney General’s office ruled this week that a bylaw change approved during Lee’s town meeting last June cannot go into effect because it conflicts with state law. The finding is a setback for opponents of a proposed PCB dump.
A family business that’s operated in Lee for half a century will drop use of one of its properties, after being cited by the state environmental officials. The Department of Environmental Protection says L.B. Corp. has been running a materials recycling plant without a required permit.
The General Electric Co. can change its structure, but any corporate evolution doesn’t free it from a duty to remove toxins from the Housatonic River.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires the town to extensively upgrade its wastewater treatment plant to limit phosphorus discharges within three years.
Members of Lee‘s top board did not misstep legally, a judge says, when they decided to accept a PCB landfill as part of a dramatic reset last year on plans to remove toxins from the Housatonic River.
Significant summer rain has provided the perfect nursery for an extra-large population of mosquitoes this year. It's a problem the Berkshire County Mosquito Control Project typically is well-equipped to meet. But, this year, a City Council vote removed the project's most productive technique: neighborhood pesticide sprays.
An attempt to overturn the EPA permit allowing a PCB landfill in Lee goes to a hearing today before the Environmental Appeals Board in Washington, D.C. The proceeding is being conducted by videoconference, starting at 1:30 p.m. The Eagle will provide live updates during the hearing.
Thursday afternoon, the country’s top environmental court will hear why the latest plan to pull toxins from the Housatonic River should be scuttled. And why it should go ahead. You can watch.
Weeds, those aggressive, irrepressible pests, are the most persistent — and annoying — problem of lawn care. Surely that’s why Paul Tukey in h…
With the completion of the Cole Avenue Apartments, the town is about to receive more than 60 new residents. The Berkshire Housing Development Corporation hosted a grand opening event Thursday at the apartment complex, with about 70 people touring through a model apartment and listening as speakers praised the project and the expansive team behind it.
