"The piles of toxic waste from the Pensacola site, once home to wood-treating and chemical companies, led it to be dubbed “Mount Dioxin.”"
"Plenty of storms have hit Pensacola, Florida’s westernmost city, in the 450 years since its founding, but among the worst has been the storm over the toxic waste site nicknamed “Mount Dioxin.”
Bureaucratic mismanagement led to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relocating about 400 households from the neighborhoods around the site beginning in the mid-1990s. To date, it’s the third-largest permanent Superfund relocation in U.S. history, after Love Canal and Times Beach.
Thirty years after efforts to relocate residents away from legacy pollution began, the story still isn’t over. Cleanup of contaminated soil was completed in 2010, according to the EPA, but the land remains vacant. Work to clean up groundwater contamination is finally expected to begin this fall."
Craig Pittman reports for Inside Climate News October 17, 2026.
