Brownfields and Superfund sites are areas in the U.S. designated by the EPA as environmentally hazardous due to pollution, contaminants, or similar issues.

Most of the pollution at Virginia’s Superfund sites happened long before the nation enacted tough environmental laws in the 1970s and ‘80s. “Take it out back and bury it” was often the ...

For nearly 100 years, the former Exide plant melted lead-acid car batteries that polluted properties in the mostly Latino region of southeast Los Angeles.

The solution du jour in the ongoing saga of “How Do We Solve the Tijuana River Pollution Crisis” is to designate six miles of the river estuary on the U.S. side as a Superfund site. Those who know the ...

Remediation at two of the three Gibbsboro Superfund sites — on Route 561 and on United States Avenue — has been completed at a total cost of $22.9 million. Environmental monitoring continues ...

Between seven superfund sites and waterways impaired by years of unimpeded runoff from industrial plants and hastily-erected 1950s era subdivisions, Pensacola and Escambia County have cemented for ...

The state's Natural Resource Damage Program and Superfund watchdogs in Butte have expressed concern about the proposed use of slightly contaminated dirt instead of clean fill at sites in Butte.

New Jersey was a leader in passing the Spill Act in 1976 to hold polluters responsible for toxic pollution sites - leading to the passage of the national Superfund program,” said Dan Quinlan, Co ...

Big Superfund toxic-waste dumps get the publicity, but reports going back 18 years suggest numerous smaller pollution sites could pose threats in Virginia. Virginia's non-Superfund sites may pose ...

In 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed adding the area to a list of the country’s most toxic sites. One of the companies affected was Drummond Co, an Alabama-based coal company.

In 1990, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared the West Lake Landfill one of the nation’s most contaminated sites requiring cleanup. Still, many who lived near the dump didn’t know ...

America’s most toxic county, with 23 active Superfund sites, is Santa Clara County in California. Santa Clara is also where nearly all US tech companies have their headquarters.