"The EPA Is Cracking Down On PFAS — But Not In Fertilizer"
"Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It's full of forever chemicals."
Source: Grist, 04/23/2024
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"E.P.A. Will Make Polluters Pay to Clean Up Two ‘Forever Chemicals’"
"The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers."
Source: NYTimes, 04/22/2024
"SuperFund Tax Shortfall: Trouble For Cleanups, EPA Budget"
"The Biden administration has juiced EPA’s Superfund program with billions of dollars, but an unexpected shortfall for “polluter pays” taxes and election-year politics may bring the high times for the toxic waste site cleanup program to a close."
Source: E&E News, 04/17/2024
"Navajo Uranium Mines’ Unknown Cancer Link Risks Slowing Cleanup"
"Uncertainty about the health effects of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation risks drawing out for decades the clean up of radioactive waste piles the EPA designated as Superfund sites in March."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/02/2024
"Canoeing in a Superfund Site"
"Paddling in the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, has inspired one recovering lawyer to write poetry about toxic sludge, floating condoms, and gentrification."
Source: New Yorker, 03/29/2024
"Watchdog to EPA: Step Up Gowanus Canal Cleanup Enforcement"
"A major construction project designed to help clean up one of the most contaminated water bodies in the U.S. is years behind schedule and massively over budget, EPA’s independent watchdog said Thursday."
Source: E&E News, 03/22/2024
"Navajos Worry Uranium Superfund Addition Is a False EPA Promise"
"Trust is in short supply that the EPA will follow through on promises to clean up uranium mine contamination that has sickened generations of Navajo people, tribal members told agency officials visiting a contaminated mining area on Friday in Arizona."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/18/2024
"Biden Seeks $1.8B Budget Boost For EPA"
"The president’s fiscal 2025 blueprint would increase the agency’s funding over its current level but is not as ambitious as previous plans."
Source: E&E News, 03/12/2024
"EPA Offers Another $1B For Superfund Cleanups"
"EPA announced an additional $1 billion will go toward cleaning up the nation’s most contaminated areas under its Superfund program." "The funding will help scrub 25 waste sites and speed cleanups at another 85 existing tracts."
Source: E&E News, 02/28/2024
"The Secret Dispute Behind Cleaning Seattle’s Only River"
"In its early days as a major aircraft manufacturer, Boeing was remarkably open about toxic chemicals flowing from its factory into the neighboring Duwamish, Seattle’s only river and a longtime source of food, tradition and culture for Indigenous people."
Source: Seattle Times, 09/25/2023
