Activists Eye a Superfund Reboot Under Biden With a Focus on Environmental Justice and Climate Change
The EPA’s program for cleaning up the nation’s hazardous waste dumps has a backlog of sites that lack funding the largest in 15 years.
By David Hasemyer and Lise Olsen
December 28, 2020
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Super Threats: Last in a series with The Texas Observer and NBC News about Superfund sites and climate change.
The uber challenge facing the incoming Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency in its oversight of 1,570 hazard waste sites is best summed in a name that’s become synonymous with the daunting task: Superfund.
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