"Long Island's 254 Superfund Sites Threaten Its Drinking Water"
"Long Island's sole source of drinking water lies beneath many of the most contaminated places in New York State."
Source: LI Newsday, 09/24/2013
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"Major Cleanup To Begin at NH $50M Superfund Site"
"CONCORD, N.H. -- Cleanup at one of the state's major Superfund pollution sites is moving into high gear."
Source: AP, 09/20/2013
3 Years Later: Sunken Oil Is Looming Threat to Kalamazoo River
"Once black with oil, the Kalamazoo River runs clear now. But EPA orders dredging and says it will be years before the spill's long-term effects are known."
Source: InsideClimate News, 07/26/2013
"DWP To Build Groundwater Treatment Plants on Superfund Site"
"The facilities will restore pumping of drinking water from scores of contaminated San Fernando Valley wells, lessening L.A.'s reliance on imported water, agency says."
Source: LA Times, 06/24/2013
"EPA: 1,154 Properties Taken Off Omaha's Lead Cleanup List"
"Federal environmental officials have completed part of a massive cleanup of lead from Omaha properties that began 15 years ago."
Source: Omaha World-Herald, 06/05/2013
Duwamish Toxics Cleanup Could Leave Other Health Problems Unsolved
"If the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency isn’t going to ensure Seattle’s Duwamish River is clean enough for needy residents to fish there for their dinner, the agency needs to ensure those people get fish some other way – even if that means supplying seafood through food banks. Or building clean urban fishing ponds. Or giving people shares in a seafood cooperative akin to a community-supported-agriculture operation."
Source: Investigate West, 05/16/2013
"Progress Reported in Cleaning Up Delaware's Largest Superfund Site"
"The Environmental Protection Agency is reporting promising but uneven results in its latest report on costly efforts to control toxic pollution creeping away from Delaware’s largest Superfund cleanup site."
Source: Wilmington News Journal, 04/29/2013
Kalamazoo Mayor: EPA's Plan for Superfund Landfill Is 'Unacceptable'
"KALAMAZOO, MI -- Members of the Kalamazoo community gathered at a public forum Monday to learn more about the Allied Paper landfill site and to voice concerns with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to consolidate and cap the site in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood."
Source: Kalamazoo Gazette, 04/24/2013
"EPA To Test Hazardous Barrel Site"
"SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will conduct tests at a Tremont City site containing buried barrels filled with 1.5 million gallons of hazardous waste."
Source: Springfield News Sun, 04/16/2013
Duwamish Residents Face Health Threat As EPA Chooses Superfund Cleanup
"The residents of south Seattle's 98108 ZIP code, some living cheek-by-jowl with the Duwamish River Superfund site, face a high degree of environmental health threats and are likely to live sicker and die younger than residents of other Seattle neighborhoods, says a new report by two nonprofit groups."
Source: Investigate West, 03/28/2013
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