On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will discuss the next steps for a San Jacinto Superfund site a year after the agency determined that cleanup efforts by companies were “seriously ...

HOUSTON — The findings of a new Texas health report say a 250-square mile area of east Harris County is a cancer cluster. Some residents believe it may be linked to decades-old hazardous waste pits in ...

“By definition it poses health risks to the public” if a site sits on the Superfund list, said Noah Sachs, an environmental law expert at the University or Richmond School of Law. The nation’s most ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency added 12 hazardous waste sites to the list of the most-contaminated places in the United States on Friday, clearing the way for major cleanups to ...

Geographic information system (GIS) maps help researchers, policymakers, and community members see how environmental risks are spread throughout a given region. These types of interactive, layered ...

There are 31 Superfund sites -- also called National Priority List sites-- in Virginia. Before cleanups began, these places were among the most hazardous waste sites in the country. Four additional ...

The Treasure Coast is home to three Superfund sites, also known as toxic-waste sites. Cancer risk is a common thread at each of the three Superfund sites on the Treasure Coast. Two of the three region ...

Some recent studies from the University of Miami’s Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center suggests that women living near Superfund sites — federally designated hazardous waste areas — face a higher ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it had completed five-year reviews of a dozen Superfund sites across Massachusetts in 2024, including several in Greater Lowell. The EPA ...

RAMAPO ‒ A property contaminated years ago by the illegal dumping of toxic paint sludge has been earmarked for cleanup under the New York State Superfund program for hazardous waste sites. The ...