"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
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"'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
"EPA Cleanups And the Toxins Left Behind"
"Trout caught in Torch Lake, Mich., are not safe to eat. Groundwater in Baldwin, Fla., is not safe to drink. Six acres of land in Bridgewater, Mass., are not safe to live on."
Source: Walpole Times, 08/22/2014
Part 2 of Contamination Study Show Deadly Levels in St. Louis Robins
"Michigan State University environmental toxicology professor Matt Zwiernik presented part two of the results from the 2013 dead bird collection in St. Louis to the Pine River Superfund Taskforce Wednesday. Zwiernik’s team monitored 60 active nests not only in the nine-block residential area surrounding the former Velsicol plant site but also 15 kilometers downstream. As was the case with the first batch of results, American robins eggs collected contained DDx levels far above those found to induce death in laboratory settings."
Source: Mt. Pleasant Morning Sun, 08/22/2014
"Songbirds Dying From DDT in Michigan Yards; Superfund Site Blamed"
"ST. LOUIS, Mich. – Jim Hall was mowing the town’s baseball diamond when he felt a little bump underneath him. “And there it was, a dead robin,” he said."
Source: EHN, 07/29/2014
"Toxic Cleanup Shifts From Dirt Near RDU To Region’s Streams, Lakes"
"An 8-acre mound of oven-baked dirt -- so sterile that no worms or weeds can live in it -- is all that remains after an $82 million Superfund cleanup at the site of Ward Transformer Co., the Triangle’s nastiest industrial polluter."
Source: Raleigh News & Observer, 07/21/2014
"North Dakota Wrestles With Radioactive Oilfield Waste"
"Regulators look at raising the limit for radiation amid a rash of illegal dumping."
Source: High Country News, 07/17/2014
