Superfund Sites

New Jersey Leads the Nation in Superfund Sites as EPA Funding Cuts and Staff Reductions Threaten Cleanups

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. says the Trump administration has cut regional staffing serving the state by a third, making progress on Superfund cleanups “nearly impossible.”

By Anna Mattson

The Passaic River Stars in a Short Drama About Its Life as a Superfund Site

By Anna Mattson

A Contaminated Riverside Lot in Chicago’s Bridgeport Neighborhood Is Poised for Cleanup by Peoples Gas

By Charna Albert

Navigating the Troubled Waters of Newtown Creek Means an Environmental Cleanup in Brooklyn and Queens That Will Cost At Least $3.3 Billion

By Jordan Gass-Pooré

The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River

By Anna Mattson

Michigan Lawmakers Aim to Revisit ‘Polluter Pay’ to Enforce Cleanup of Toxic Sites

By Douglas J. Guth

‘We Are Nature’: Indigenous Women Come Together at the United Nations

By Lauren Dalban

Developers See Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal as an Alluring New Waterfront. But for Years, It Stunk

By Jordan Gass-Pooré

How North America’s Leading Brownfield Redeveloper Makes Millions by Not Redeveloping Brownfields

By Daniel Propp

On Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn, How Environmental Activism Plays Out in the Neighborhood

By Jordan Gass-Pooré

In New Mexico, a Walk Commemorates the Nuclear Disaster Few Outside the Navajo Nation Remember

By Noel Lyn Smith

Louisville, Kentucky, Moves Toward Cleaning Up Its ‘Gully of the Drums’ After More Than Four Decades

By James Bruggers

EPA Faulted for Wasting Millions, Failing to Prevent Spread of Superfund Site Contamination

By Katie Surma

This Month’s Superfund Listing of Abandoned Uranium Mines in the Navajo Nation’s Lukachukai Mountains Is a First Step Toward Cleaning Them Up

By Noel Lyn Smith

The Proposed Cleanup of a Baltimore County Superfund Site Stirs Questions and Concerns in a Historical, Disinvested Community

By Aman Azhar