superfund
Colorado's Animas River suffered a pollution episode late last week, when an EPA effort to deal with mine waste backed up behind an underground dam actually breached it instead, leading.
House Republicans passed a bill yesterday gutting Superfund. Yes, that's right, the Republican Party supports the exposure of Americans to toxic waste. Of course, as we all know there is.
A very good piece on the trickiness of Superfund attempts to clean up rivers. Is it better to clean up the toxic sludge at the bottom of rivers flowing through industrial sites, even though it could stir up those toxins in the short term? Or...