"Superfund: 'Silent Spring' Comes" To Life in DDT-Stricken Town"
"For years, when spring rolled around in St. Louis, Mich., songbirds dropped to the ground, dead."
Source: Greenwire, 02/06/2017
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"Mining Town Emerging From Superfund Cleanup With Optimism"
"For decades, a creek in the mountains west of Denver sometimes ran yellow from toxic waste gurgling out of abandoned mines — a painfully familiar story in the picturesque wreckage of Colorado's 1859 gold rush. But after a three-decade, $62 million Superfund cleanup, Clear Creek now lives up to its pristine-sounding name, at least most of the time."
Source: AP, 09/19/2016
13 Months After Spill, Colorado's Gold King Mine Named Superfund Site
"Thirteen months after an Environmental Protection Agency mistake sent millions of gallons of bright orange wastewater into a Colorado river, the agency has declared the Gold King Mine and 47 other locations in the region Superfund sites, Colorado Public Radio reports."
Source: NPR, 09/08/2016
"EPA: Clean Up at Navassa Will Take Years"
"NAVASSA, N.C. – Officials involved in cleaning up the contamination left here decades ago by a wood-treatment operation say the process will take years, but now that an initial investigation of the Superfund site is complete, a new phase in the effort is about to begin."
Source: Coastal Review, 08/05/2016
"Superfund: A Philadelphia Suburb's Asbestos Nightmare"
"AMBLER, Pa. -- U.S. EPA's Greg Voigt opens a chain-link gate, pushes aside waist-high weeds and scrambles to the highest point in this Philadelphia suburb: a 100-foot pile of industrial waste."
Source: Greenwire, 07/28/2016
Idaho Superfund Site Is Still a Toxic Mess, With Legacy of Suffering
Dust and emissions from an Idaho smelter left a legacy of lead poisoning among a generation of children near what is now a Superfund site.
Source: Newsweek, 06/14/2016
"EPA Proposes $746M Portland Harbor Superfund Cleanup"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will take 30 years and around $746 million to clean up a 10-mile stretch of the Willamette River known as the Portland Harbor Superfund Site."
Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting, 06/10/2016
"EPA: After 16 Years, Get Ready To Comment On Portland Harbor Cleanup"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to release its proposed Portland Harbor Superfund Site cleanup plan early next month."
Source: EarthFix/OPB, 03/25/2016
"Toxic Passaic River to Get $1.38 Billion Cleanup Over 10 Years"
State and federal officials Friday announced a plan to clean up more than a century's worth of toxic pollution from the lower eight miles of the Passaic river, in one of the largest and most expensive projects under EPA's 35-year-old Superfund program.
Source: NY Times, 03/07/2016
"Appeals Court Orders EPA To Issue Rules On Mining Cleanups"
"The Environmental Protection Agency was ordered Friday to begin issuing long-overdue rules aimed at stopping mining companies from declaring bankruptcy to avoid pollution cleanups."
Source: AP, 02/03/2016
