"New Portland Harbor Superfund Cleanup Agreements Secured By EPA"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced eight new agreements Monday with parties responsible for cleaning up the Portland Harbor Superfund Site."
Source: OPB, 03/11/2020
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EPA Moves To Limit Financial Pressure on PFAS Makers Under Cleanup Law
"A proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would absolve the nation’s manufacturers of cancer-linked “forever chemicals” from broad financial responsibility for cleaning up their product as it leaches into the water supply across the country."
Source: The Hill, 02/24/2020
"Toxic Superfund Cleanups Decline To More Than 30-Year Low
"The Trump administration completed the fewest cleanups of toxic Superfund sites last year than any administration since the program’s first years in the 1980s, figures released by the Environmental Protection Agency indicated Wednesday."
Source: AP, 02/20/2020
Once-Powerful Montana Mining Town Awaits Final Cleanup Of Its Toxic Past
"BUTTE, Mont. — High above this storied copper town, one of the tallest earth-filled dams in the country holds back more than 6.5 trillion gallons of toxic sludge from an open-pit mine."
Source: Washington Post, 02/12/2020
"Superfund Cleanup Considered For Detroit ‘Green Goo’ Site"
"An industrial site in suburban Detroit from which a greenish stream of contaminated water leaked onto a freeway will be considered for the federal Superfund cleanup program, Michigan officials said Friday."
Source: AP, 01/13/2020
"EPA’s Superfund Program, A Trump Priority, Is A Shambles"
"It turns out it’s hard to clean up toxic waste without money."
Source: HuffPost, 01/08/2020
"Broad-Ranging PFAS Chemicals Bill on House Floor Next Week"
"A bill that would require the EPA to regulate PFAS, an emerging family of chemicals contaminating U.S. municipal and private water supplies, is slated to be the first major legislation that the House will take up in 2020."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 01/03/2020
"Backlog Of Toxic Superfund Cleanups Grows Under Trump"
"The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama era, according to 2019 figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays."
Source: AP, 01/03/2020
"Chemicals: Negotiators Reach Agreement on PFAS Legislation"
"Lawmakers have reached a deal on federal cleanup standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in an annual defense authorization, sources told E&E News."
Source: E&E Daily, 12/06/2019
"Supreme Court Wary of Disrupting Superfund Cleanup"
"A debate over Montana landowners’ potential liability for toxic metals in their backyards, deposited over decades of smelting operations, dominated oral arguments involving the landowners, the U.S. EPA, and Atlantic Richfield Co. before the Supreme Court Dec. 3."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 12/04/2019
