34 Superfund Sites Can’t Be Cleaned Up For Lack of Money
The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama...
View ArticleInterpreting Testing Results; The Basis for No Cause for Alarm
Not too long ago, a local leader in a community in Nevada asked if I could review a set of water testing data. The sample was taken from a water storage tank that provides drinking water to the town...
View ArticleWhere is the fund in Superfund going?
President Trump has asked Congress on Monday to reduce the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget on Superfund. The Administration has created the largest backlog of cleanups in over 15 years, and...
View ArticleHow vulnerable is your community to Coronavirus? New maps reveal familiar...
The predominantly black and low-income communities living near the back-to-back petrochemical refineries of Louisiana’s “cancer alley” have long suffered compromised immune systems and high rates of...
View ArticleVulnerability to Pollution and Susceptibility to Covid-19
A new screening tool is now available that identifies populations across the country that are most vulnerable to severe complications following exposure to the coronavirus and development of covid-19....
View ArticleA Pandemic of Pollution
The death toll due to Covid-19 passed the 90,000 mark in the United States this week. This is a truly staggering if not sobering number that raises many questions about how we as a nation respond to...
View ArticleSuperfund and Climate Change Events: A Personal Account of Flooding and the...
Climate change has resulted in devastating flooding and natural disasters that have overwhelmed and greatly impacted communities. The Edenville dam along the Tittabawassee River in mid-Michigan...
View ArticleKaren Nickel and Dawn Chapman: Just Moms STL
By: Jenna Clark, Communications Intern Karen and Dawn will tell you that they are “just moms,” but you shouldn’t believe them. In their community of West Lake, Missouri, these two moms have led the...
View ArticleThe Rachel Carson Amendment
Our colleague and friend Lou Zeller at the Blue Ridge Environmental League (BREDL) shared an article he wrote a few years back about the great pioneer Rachel Carson who wrote in her epic 1962 classic...
View ArticleEnvironmental Justice for Overburdened Communities: A View from New Jersey
Last year, the New Jersey state legislature passed a landmark environmental justice bill that requires the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to identify overburdened communities in the...
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