News

Locations selected as Superfund sites often have no entity engaged in cleanup efforts, and the companies responsible for the pollution itself are frequently defunct or bankrupt. If EPA officials ...
The Superfund study area contains some 2,000 homes. (July 17, 2017) More than 2,000 residential properties are located in the Colorado Smelter Superfund site on Pueblo’s south side.
The Environmental Protection Agency says 25 toxic waste sites in 15 states — including 4 in Pa., 3 in N.J. — will be cleaned up as part of a $1 billion infusion to the federal Superfund program.
Federal Superfund sites at risk of flooding due to sea level rise, according to EPA's office of Inspector General. Map courtesy of EPA OIG. July 10, 2025 Nearly one-third of 157 federal facilities ...
Credit: JacobStudio via Thinkstock Generic gavel Author: KUSA Staff Published: 2:37 PM MST December 14, 2016 Updated: 2:37 PM MST December 14, 2016 ...
They are called Superfund sites, and that you can find them is due, in large part, to the heroic efforts of a small group of Niagara Falls residents in the late 1970s.
The long stretch of the river from the Grand Coulee Dam to the Canadian border has been contaminated by at least nine types of hazardous waste, including arsenic, lead and zinc, that mostly came ...
The Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List includes more than 1,300 superfund sites and more than 450,000 brownfield sites.