"Polluted Passaic River Suffers Latest in History of Setbacks"
Efforts to remove 17 miles of dioxin-laced muck contaminating New Jersey's Passaic River seem to have failed.
Source: Bergen Record, 10/15/2012
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"$366 Million Accord Reached To Clean Up New Bedford Harbor"
"NEW BEDFORD -- A long-departed manufacturing company will pay $366 million to clean the PCB-laden harbor here, the largest cash settlement for a single site in the history of the federal Superfund program, government officials announced Wednesday."
Source: Boston Globe, 10/11/2012
"Waukegan Harbor Dredging To Commence This Month"
"Long-awaited dredging will begin this month in Waukegan Harbor to remove soil contaminated with hazardous substances at a Superfund site once described as the 'world's worst PCB mess,' officials announced Thursday at the Waukegan Yacht Club."
Source: Chicago Tribune, 09/07/2012
"Fishing the Forgotten River in the Nation’s Capital"
"Thousands of people consume fish from Washington, D.C.’s highly polluted Anacostia River, despite safety warnings."
Source: NatGeo, 07/24/2012
"EPA Looks for Answers at Old Toxic Waste Dump"
"With reports of once-buried waste making its way to the surface, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is calling for a new study of health and safety concerns near a Louisville landfill that once was on the nation’s Superfund list of most toxic places."
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 06/26/2012
NJ: EPA Fears Toxic Spread From Tainted Pool Under Garfield Plant
"Federal officials believe they have identified a highly concentrated pocket of cancer-causing chromium underneath an abandoned factory in Garfield [NJ] that may be the root cause of the large-scale contamination potentially threatening the health of thousands of residents."
Source: Bergen Record, 06/11/2012
"Pollution, Poverty, People of Color: the Factory on the Hill"
"From the house where he was born, Henry Clark can stand in his back yard and see plumes pouring out of one of the biggest oil refineries in the United States."
Source: EHN, 06/04/2012
"Toxic Site Neighbors Await Test Results"
"Residents waiting to learn whether their property was contaminated by an insecticide manufacturing plant in their Park Hill neighborhood want to know why it took officials about 25 years to begin testing the soil in and near what has become the city's newest Superfund toxic waste site."
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 04/16/2012
"NY Mohawk: Move Toxic GM Dump From Tribal Lands"
"MASSENA, N.Y. -- Larry Thompson sits high in his tractor cab and drives to a chain-link fence along his family property on the Mohawk Indians' Akwesasne Reservation, where they fished, grew vegetables and played as children. He points to a toxic landfill about 30 feet away, stretching toward the St. Lawrence River."
Source: KTAR, 03/26/2012
"EPA Adds Nine Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund List"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today added nine new hazardous waste sites to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites, and is proposing to include 10 additional sites."
Source: ENS, 03/14/2012
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