"EPA: Superfund Cleanup ‘Likely’ Fouled Pennsylvania Town’s Water"
"Municipal sewage sludge was used as fertilizer in the project that began decades ago in Palmerton, where PFAS now taint soil and water."
Source: E&E News, 11/03/2025
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EPA Hasn’t Released Completed Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical
"Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it."
Source: ProPublica, 10/10/2025
"Inside Trump’s Unorthodox Climate Attacks in Courts Nationwide"
"The administration is cranking up efforts to kill state laws and legal cases that would force fossil-fuel companies to pay for climate damage."
Source: NYTimes, 09/09/2025
"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions"
"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."
Source: NYTimes, 08/29/2025
Newtown Ck. Cleanup in Brooklyn and Queens Will Cost At Least $3.3 Billion
"A tributary of the Hudson River is poised, after years of delay, to see work on a pivotal tunnel that will reduce wastewater in the New York City waterway."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/22/2025
"The Slow-Moving Fight to Clean New Jersey’s Most Contaminated River"
"More than 40 years after the Passaic River was declared a Superfund site, cancer-causing toxins still line its bottom. While residents drink from its waters, cleanup stalls under corporate resistance and potential federal budget cuts."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/11/2025
"Watchdog Warns Of Rising Seas’ Damage To Superfund Sites"
"The threat of sea-level rise or storm surges at the nation’s most polluted sites puts millions of people at risk of exposure to dangerous contaminants."
Source: E&E News, 07/02/2025
In Highly Polluted Ala. Black Community, Trump Axes Funds for Air Monitoring
"Residents in majority-Black north Birmingham, Alabama, have long been subjected to industrial pollution. The new administration has cut funding for a program aimed at measuring the impact."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/10/2025
Justice Dept Sues Hawaii, Mich., Vt. And New York Over State Climate Actions
"The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Trump’s energy dominance agenda."
Source: AP, 05/02/2025
"Sludge Contaminated 10,000 Acres of Farmland. What Should Be Done?"
"For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.”"
Source: NYTimes, 04/22/2025
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