The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Friday that it will put the first dollar bill from the recently signed bipartite infrastructure bill budget to deal with the backlog of Superfund cleanup sites.
There are unfunded Superfund sites in 17 states and Puerto Rico and they cover almost every geographic region of the country, from a former ore mine in Cape Rosier, Maine, to a commercial site for singles in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Recipients of the first cleaning investment circular come with the former American Creosote Works in Pensacola, Florida, where chemicals used to treat telephone poles infected the region’s soil and circular water.
The budget will also go to the former Roebling Steel Company in Florence Township, New Jersey, along the Delaware River, where sections of the Golden Gate Bridge were made. and copper to exposed asbestos.
New Jersey, in particular, has a disproportionate number of Superfund sites, which recently made headlines when the FBI searched one of the sites for the remains of Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared in November.
“This painting is just the beginning; with more than one in 4 African Americans and Hispanic Americans living within 3 miles of a Superfund site, EPA is striving to serve those who remain,” said EPA Administrator Michael Regan Michael Regan Overnight Energy
“Approximately 60% of the sites that will get investment for new cleanup projects are in traditionally underserved communities. Communities living in the vicinity of deserted or uncontrolled pollution spills at most or maximum, despite everything, will get the protection they need. they deserve,” he added.
The backlog of work pending on cleaning up the Superfund is greatest under the Trump administration, according to a 2020 Associated Press poll, which found that the number of unfunded sites nearly tripled that of the Obama presidency.
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