EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO Superfund Task Force
‘Too Valuable to Throw Away’: Brownfields Programs a Way for Former Industrial Sites to Get New Life
EPN Board member Stan Meiburg, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Region 4 and Region 6 and Acting Deputy Administrator, is quoted in this article about the Kesler Mill “brownfield” site in Salisbury, North Carolina, which has applied for a federal cleanup grant due to pollution left from its industrial past.
This Town Didn’t Want to Be a Radioactive Waste Dump. The Government Is Giving Them No Choice.
Kathy Setian, EPN member and former EPA Superfund Project Manager, Region 9, is quoted in this article about a landfill—or “on-site waste disposal cell,” as the DOE calls it—being built in south central Ohio, which will be one of the largest nuclear waste dumps east of the Mississippi when finished.
It’s Official: Trump’s Policies Deter EPA Staff from Enforcing the Law
EPN member Joel Mintz, former EPA Enforcement and Supervisory Attorney, wrote this op-ed about the dismal decline in EPA enforcement under the Trump Administration.
Government Shutdown Would Further Delay Superfund Work
Betsy Southerland, EPN member and former EPA Director, Office of Science & Technology in the Office of Water, is interviewed about the progress on Montana’s Superfund cleanup sites being put in jeopardy once again by a potential second government shutdown.