"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
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"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
Panel Faults Ft. Detrick Groundwater Study That Found Harm Unlikely
"HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- A 2009 federal study that concluded groundwater contamination from Fort Detrick was unlikely to have harmful health effects was flawed, a national scientific panel said Monday, prompting two U.S. senators to demand a faster cleanup of the Superfund site in Frederick [MD]."
Source: AP, 03/06/2012
"Superfund-Eligible Sites in New Jersey Not Listed for Cleanup"
"WASHINGTON, DC -- New Jersey already has 144 Superfund sites, more than any other state, but it could have even more according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency documents obtained through a lawsuit by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a national alliance of state and federal agency resource professionals.
Twenty-seven contaminated sites in New Jersey pose risks equal to or greater than sites placed on the Superfund National Priority List and scheduled for cleanup, yet the EPA has not added these uncontrolled sites to the list, PEER has determined.
Source: ENS, 02/17/2012
"U.S. Announces Proposals to Clean Gowanus Canal"
"The toxic cocktail that is the Gowanus Canal took a century to mix. Now plans for the federal government to transform it in 10 years from an environmental blight into a healthy urban waterway are taking shape amid optimism from neighbors and frustration from City Hall."
Source: NY Times, 01/05/2012
"San Benito County's New Idria Mercury Mine Now a Superfund Site"
"Every second of every day it flows: a river of poison gushing from the hillsides."
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, 12/05/2011
"Officials Unveil $80M Cleanup Plan of Passaic River"
"NEWARK — The first steps in a Superfund cleanup of massive dioxin deposits in the Passaic River were unveiled by officials today."
Source: Newark Star-Ledger, 11/02/2011
"Industrial Solvent TCE Even More Dangerous To People"
"EPA finds trichloroethylene causes kidney and liver cancer, lymphoma and other health problems. The decision could raise the cost of cleanups nationwide, including in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys."
Source: LA Times, 09/30/2011
