Human exposure ‘uncontrolled’ at 114 Superfund sites By Joaquin Sapien May 18, 2007 For the past eight years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has assured residents of South Plainfield, N.J., that it is safe to swim in Bound Brook, even though the stream runs alongside a Superfund site — the EPA’s designation for the country’s […]
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Toxic waste still plagues American communities 27 years after the U.S. government set up a program to identify and clean up the country’s worst sites. A one-year investigation by the Center for Public Integrity reveals the beleaguered state of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund effort, uncovers the companies and government agencies linked to the most sites and tracks progress of the clean up.
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