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Super Threats

Activists Eye a Superfund Reboot Under Biden With a Focus on Environmental Justice and Climate Change

The EPA’s program for cleaning up the nation’s hazardous waste dumps has a backlog of sites that lack funding—the largest in 15 years.

By David Hasemyer and Lise Olsen

Credit: Mark Harris for NBC News
Firefighters use a back burn to try and control the Carr fire as it spreads towards the towns of Douglas City and Lewiston near Redding, California on July 31, 2018. The fire swept over the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site, threatening to release corrosive chemicals into the watershed and contaminate Redding's water supply. Two firefighters were killed fighting the blaze and a 70 year old woman and her two great-grandchildren perished when their Redding home was swallowed by the flames. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites

By Michael Kodas, David Hasemyer

In Georgia, 16 Superfund Sites Are Threatened by Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change

By David Hasemyer

Michael Cox, a former EPA climate expert for the Pacific Northwest, looks into the Wyckoff/Eagle Harbor Superfund site on Bainbridge Island, Washington on Oct. 6, 2020. Credit: Karen Ducey

Trump's EPA Claimed 'Success' in Superfund Cleanups—But Climate Change Dangers Went Unaddressed

By DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND LISE OLSEN, TEXAS OBSERVER

Ana Baptista, a community advocate, in Newark's Ironbound neighborhood. Credit: Brian Fraser/NBC News

At One of America’s Most Toxic Superfund Sites, Climate Change Imperils More Than Cleanup

By ERIK ORTIZ, NBC NEWS

Heavy industry lines the shores of Lavaca Bay, South Texas. Credit: Spike Johnson

A Sprawling Superfund Site Has Contaminated Lavaca Bay. Now, It’s Threatened by Climate Change

By LISE OLSEN, THE TEXAS OBSERVER, AND DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS

Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies

Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change

By DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND LISE OLSEN, TEXAS OBSERVER

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