Superfund in a sentence

For example, Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones 'belled the cat' when he addressed a convention of self-managed superfund owners in late February 2023.

My home county has incredibly engaged individuals who make up the Pine River Superfund Citizen Task Forceadvocates pressured the politicians in my area and helped make cleanup a top priority.

On Environment and Public Works, he was instrumental in drafting legislation to reduce acid rain, create the Superfund clean-up legislation and other programs protecting the country’s natural resources.

The Corps shut them down in the mid-1980s and the area wasdeclared a hazardous waste sitein 1989 under the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund law.

The EPA’s Superfund list, though, is only for the “worst of the worst” sites, as Hillenbrand describes them.

We need and appreciate the support of the many people who realize the importance of this Superfund site, which has become a feature of our landscape.

With a population of only 88,000, the city has five Superfund sites, many of them found along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

A complex of mines on the Navajo Nation recently was added to the federal Superfund list.

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act gives the EPA access to a “superfund” to remediate large-scale environmental damage.

Her team also notes Lawson-Remer’s recent move backed by some South Bay leaders to pursue federal Superfund status for the Tijuana River valley despite fellow supervisors’ votes to stall that plan.

Local leaders are also exploring petitioning the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to investigate whether the Tijuana River Valley qualifies as a superfund site.

Lookner said he’s interested in creating a state climate superfund program where major polluters pay into the fund that can be used for climate mitigation work around the state.

Porter announced the move earlier this week in connection with the school being located on an EPA designated Superfund site.

Putting Exide on the Superfund list could fill the void left by the settlement that failed to provide enough money to clean up the plant and address soil and groundwater contamination, the motion stated.

The federal agency announced Tuesday it proposed adding the site to the National Priorities List of hazardous waste sites eligible for cleanup financed under the federal superfund program.

Long-term remedial efforts to make sure contamination didn’t rebound at existing Superfund sites, for example, averaged 64 a year under Trump.

Sankaran hopes that data will inform environmental-justice policy that would prevent the root causes of water contamination in marginalized communities — for example, aging infrastructure or proximity to superfund sites and other polluters.

The federal commitment clears the way for remedial action funded under the Superfund program.

Aerial photos taken Friday of Missouri's closed St. Joseph landfill, which is not a Superfund site, showed that roughly half of the closed landfill had water on top of asphalt at that time.

Approximately 250 sites have been listed on the state Superfund program since it was created.