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 ...

Between seven superfund sites and waterways ... “After environmental regulations like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts shut down some of these operations, the pollution still persists.

The Reilly Tar Superfund site was listed as one of the most contaminated industrial properties in the United States, and the federal Environmental ... as Superfund sites, which allows the EPA ...

Residents, environmental ... harder for hazardous sites to get designated, create a backlog, reduce program funding, and loosen contamination standards. The goal of the Superfund program, begun ...

As part of their research, the authors additionally mapped this data over the locations of Superfund sites listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Noelle N. Kosarek “Occupational ...

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 ...

A lawsuit filed last month reveals in gory detail the laundry list of putrid chemicals that for more than a century spilled into the Gowanus Canal, earning it the title of Superfund site and ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency ... unpaved roads, construction sites and wildfires. Particle pollution threatens human health because it is so tiny – a fraction of the width of a human ...

Aguirre sent a request to the Biden Administration in September and Lawson-Remer plans to seek the board’s approval on Tuesday to petition the U.S. Environmental ... Usually, Superfund sites target ...

DURHAM — The U.S. Environmental Protection ... created a special “Superfund" tax as part of a 1980 act to pay for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites, EPA remedial project manager Ed ...