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 ...

Congress established the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act in 1980, known as the Superfund. It allows the EPA to clean up contaminated sites, according to the ...

The paper’s method is to estimate a CEO’s likelihood to develop these traits based on whether they were born near US industrial pollution blackspots known as Superfund sites, which they grade ...

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 ...

The phrase “grey dirt” refers to onsite soil at project sites that has lower ... most attuned to the ongoing Superfund cleanup of historic mining and smelting pollution in Butte-Silver Bow ...

On Tuesday, Mark Thompson, vice president of environmental ... mining and smelting pollution and other wastes in the corridor cannot begin until repository sites are evaluated and approved.

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.

“This is about affordability and environmental justice. Newark residents are paying every day for the pollution the oil and gas ... “New Jersey championed the creation of the Superfund program to ...

The San Jacinto River Waste pits were added to the Environmental ... under the Superfund program, which ranks "the nation's most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites." ...

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 ...