"Massive Cleanup Plan Emerging For U.S. Steel Site in Duluth"
"After years of neglect, the site of the long-closed U.S. Steel Duluth Works may be be on the verge of revitalization."
Source: Duluth News Tribune, 08/31/2015
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"Firms To Pay $14.3M To Clean Up Central Chemical Site in Hagerstown"
"Sixteen companies have reached a $14.3 million settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Maryland to stabilize and cap waste and contaminated soil at the Central Chemical Superfund site in Hagerstown, the agency announced Monday."
Source: Hagerstown Herald-Mail, 08/18/2015
"EPA Orders More Air Quality Tests for Homes Near Superfund Sites"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a new round of air quality tests for a South Bay neighborhood after detecting a variety of contaminants inside homes near two federal cleanup sites."
Source: LA Times, 08/11/2015
"Clean-Water Advocate Takes Earth Day Swim at Superfund Site"
"NEW YORK — A clean-water advocate took an Earth Day swim in the polluted Gowanus Canal, a federal Superfund site."
Source: AP, 04/23/2015
"Officials Welcome Superfund Possibility for Hackensack River"
"The federal government’s decision to consider making the Hackensack River a Superfund site is drawing praise from local mayors and other elected officials — but that praise comes with caveats, including a sense that the Hackensack’s pollution is so pervasive and its hydrology so complex that trying to clean it up might be a fool’s errand."
Source: Bergen Record, 02/16/2015
"Locals, Activists Slam EPA Proposal To Clean Georgia Superfund Site"
"Federal agency reports community of slave descendants on nearby island exposed to pollution from site"
Source: Aljazeera America, 01/15/2015
"'Who's Going To Buy Property Next To A Superfund Site?'"
"ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Developer Richard Green had nearly everything in place to build upscale homes on the heavily polluted land next to an old electronic components plant in the mountains outside Asheville. All he needed was a permit."
Source: AP, 12/30/2014
Allies Unite To Prevent New Uranium Mines Until Old Ones Are Cleaned Up
"MILAN, N.M. - Jonnie and Milton Head's granddaughter won't bring her children to visit them at their home here in the Bluewater Valley. 'There's five times the EPA recommended daily dosage of airborne radiation,' Jonnie explains."
Source: Native Sun News, 12/23/2014
"Wasteland"
"No one talks much about toxic Superfund sites anymore. But 49 million Americans live close to one."
Source: National Geographic, 11/21/2014
"The Problem With America’s Abandoned Mines"
"A mine plans its death before its birth. The leftover waste from mines is so hazardous that mining companies must figure out what to do with it decades in advance, even before they start digging."
Source: Ctr for Investigative Reporting, 10/22/2014
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