St. Louis Park

It’s election day — although you’d be hard-pressed to find much evidence of that fact.

The Minnesota-bred Coen Brothers made a mock clean-coal ad for the Reality Coalition (via raw story):

Like Al Franken, Joel and Ethan Coen grew up in the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. People say, wow, something in the water? Actually, yeah: coal pollution.

A mobile air-quality lab used at the Hurricane Katrina and World Trade Center cleanups arrived in St. Louis Park this week.

TAGA, short for Trace Atmospheric Gas Analyzer, will be used to help federal authorities test basements for chemical vapors. About 300 property owners were alerted last month after regulators detected volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, [...]

St. Louis Park students, staff and parents can breathe easier. Early test results from two schools show no signs of harmful volatile organic compound vapors, which were recently discovered in the soil nearby.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with help from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), hope to [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a superfund investigation into underground chemical vapors recently discovered in an area of St. Louis Park.

At a press conference Tuesday, officials stressed there is no evidence of human exposure to the chemicals, which include perchlorethylene and trichloroethylene. But they’re concerned the vapors could seep into basements. They [...]