Superfund
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SCOTUS is without its chief dissenter. It’s up to us now.
When a local factory’s emissions wrecked my health, it was Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s voice that lifted up my own.
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Veterans and their families are grappling with the military’s toxic legacy
Many military bases are Superfund sites. Here's what it means for our vets' health.
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Harvey stirs up a toxic, industrial soup
Here’s what we know about some of the petrochemicals that were likely released into the air or mixed into the floodwaters over southeastern Texas.
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Cleaning up toxic sites isn’t always as good for the community as you might think
As sites are redeveloped, low-income residents get priced out.
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Trump’s budget is a declaration of war on the environment
Here are 13 ways that it would massively screw over the climate, clean water, Amtrak, and more.
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Love Canal: The toxic suburb that helped launch the modern environmental movement
The once-idyllic suburb is now a ghost town.
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America’s largest urban Superfund site gets cute new mascot
In order to get people excited about the process of turning the canal into something that will stop depressing local property values, the Gowanus Community Advisory Group has decided that the project needs a mascot.
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Obama's example of crazy regulation missed the mark
President Obama's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal touted the EPA's deregulation of an artificial sweetener. Here's the back story.
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EPA chief Lisa Jackson on mountaintop removal, climate legislation, toxics, and more
In a wide-ranging interview with Grist, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson hit on a number of hot-button topics. Here are highlights in video and text. (For more, read the full Q & A.) On mountaintop-removal mining: [T]he current state of the law and regs doesn’t allow us to just change the law and the regs to […]