Denver slaughterhouse Superior Farms agreed to pay $119,200 settlement to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to court documents filed last week, after the agency identified problems with how the company managed a toxic chemical.

Amid a ballot battle seeking to ban slaughterhouses in Denver, Superior Farms suffered another blow this week, being fined nearly $120,000 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. An inspection of the lamb-packing facility in Globeville uncovered "several" violations of the Clean Air Act,

EPA settles with Superior Farms for $120,000 over Clean Air Act violation. Slaughterhouse to invest $250,000 in upgraded equipment.

Federal environmental officials unveiled Thursday what they hailed as a landmark deal with the Navy to clean up the shoreline around the old site of its Hunters Point Naval Shipyard—a key hurdle to make way for a large residential and mixed-use development.

In the decades-long effort to clean up the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, the end may be in sight.

The U.S. Navy and the EPA announced a plan Thursday to complete the environmental cleanup at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Shipyard. Sooji Nam reports. (9-26-24)