Archived News Articles and Superfund Success Stories
News Articles Topics
- Communities
- Emergency Response/Homeland Security
- Green Remediation
- Guidance
- Miscellaneous
- National Priorities List (NPL) Deletions
- National Priorities List (NPL) Proposed and Final Rules
- Reuse
- Superfund Accomplishments and Budget
- Technology
- Past Articles from 2004 and before
- Superfund Technical Assistance Grants (TAGs)
- 2008 On-Scene Coordinator Excellence in Community Involvement Award May 2008
- 2008 Excellence in Government Award July 2008
- EPA and Department of Health and Human Services Launch $8 Million Effort to Study Libby, Montana Asbestos Exposure June 2008
- Expedited Buyout at Tar Creek May 2008
- 2008 Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award May 2008
- 2007 Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award July 2007
- 2007 National Community Involvement Training Conference April 2007
- 2006 Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award July 2006
- Sue Walker Receives Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award July 2005
- EPA Plants Seeds of Change in the Torch Lake Community April 2005
Emergency Response/Homeland Security
- Mercury in Schools January 2005
- Technical Guidelines for Environmental Dredging of Contaminated Sediments September 2008
- Technology Primer on Green Remediation April 2008
- Contaminated Sediment Remediation Guidance Released January 2006
Inspector General, General Accounting Office and Other Reports
- GAO Report on Institutional Controls March 2005
- Legal Innovation Leads to Site Cleanup and Redevelopment (Many Diversified Interests, Inc. - MDI) November 2008
- EPA Introduces Comprehensive Web Site on Cleanup of DNAPLs September 2008
- Selma Pressure Treating Site Implements Enhanced Remedy August 2008
- EPA Updating Cooperative Agreements and Superfund State Contracts Requirements June 2007
- Presentations and Materials from the Institutional Controls Roundtable and Training Conference August 2006
- Superfund Cost Management Measures November 2005
- National Strategy to Manage Post Construction Completion Activities at Superfund Sites Is Issued October 2005
- Superfund Web Site Now Available in Spanish - English | Spanish September 2005
- Innovative Work at Bunker Hill Site Receives Engineering Award May 2005
- Superfund's 25th Anniversary: Capturing the Past, Charting the Future February 2005
- Superfund Site Information Now Available in a New, Easy-to-Read Format February 2005
National Priorities List (NPL) Deletions
- See Past Articles
National Priorities List (NPL) Proposed and Final Rules
- EPA is adding six sites to the National Priorities List and proposing the addition of 11 other sites September 2008
- EPA Adds 12 and Proposes Six Sites to Superfund's National Priorities List March 2008
- EPA Adds Seven and Proposes 12 Sites to Superfund's National Priorities List September 2007
- EPA Adds Five and Proposes Five Sites to Superfund's National Priorities List March 2007
- EPA Adds Five and Proposes Six Sites to Superfund's National Priorities List September 2006
- EPA Adds Six and Proposes Four Sites to Superfund's National Priorities List April 2006
- Seven Final, Five Proposed Superfund Sites Announced August 2005
- Ten Final, Seven Proposed Superfund Sites Announced April 2005
- EPA Places the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Area on Vieques on the Superfund National Priorities List February 2005
- Ecological Land Reuse Website on CLU-IN February 2009
- Port Salerno/Region 4 Reuse Award January 2008
- Bunker Hill Conservation Easement December 2008
- New Hampshire Flying Tigers’ Auburn Road Flying Field August 2008
- RE-Powering America’s Land: Renewable Energy on Formerly Contaminated Land and Mining Sites September 2008
- "The Top 10 Questions to Ask When Buying a Superfund Site" (PDF) (10 pp, 771K, About PDF) May 2008
- Former Landfill Transformed into Public Park - Timothy H. Osmond Memorial Park in Antioch, Illinois April 2008
- EPA Promotes Ecological Revitalization at Superfund Sites April 2007
- Superfund Helps Double the Size of Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge October 2006
- EPA Science Advisory Board Announces Review of Superfund Benefits Analysis January 2005
Superfund Accomplishments and Budget
- Superfund Progress Continues in FY 2008 December 2008
- 40,000th Superfund Final Assessment Decision (FAD) Reached April 2008
- EPA Continuing Cleanup Progress at Hazardous Waste Sites December 2006
- Protecting Human Health and the Environment: Superfund Marks the 1000th Construction Completion November 2006
- Annual Superfund Data Shows Continuing Cleanup Progress November 2005
- Superfund Collaborates with States in Developing New Cleanup Technologies
- New Fact Sheet to Help Localities Address Naturally Occurring Asbestos April 2008
- Crozet Phytoremediation November 2007
- EPA Embraces New Communications Technologies October 2007
- EPA Delivers Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information to Your Desktop July 2005
Superfund Success Stories
Ace Services Company - KS (Region 7)
Anaconda Smelter Co. - MT (Region 8)
Anacostia River Initiative - DC (Region 3)
Arkansas City Dump - AR (Region 6)
Avtex Fibers Site - VA (Region 3)
Bangor Gas Works - ME (Region 1)
Bowers Landfill - OH (Region 5)
Calcasieu Estuary Initiative - LA (Region 6)
Carolina Transformer - NC (Region 4)
Chisman Creek Site - VA (Region 3)
Coleman Evans Wood Preserving - FL (Region 4)
Denver
Radium Site - CO (Region 8)
DuPont-Newport Site - DE (Region 3)
Eastland Woolen Mill - ME (Region 1)
Federal Creosote - NJ (Region 2)
Forest Glen Mobile Home Subdivision - NY (Region 2)
Fort
Devens Site - MA (Region 1)
General
Mills/Henkel Site - MN (Region 5)
Glen Ridge Radium - NJ (Region 2)
Hudson River PCBs - NY (Region 2)
Hylebos Waterway - WA (Region 10)
Industri-Plex Site - MA (Region 1)
Kane
& Lombard Street Drums - MD (Region 3)
Kerr-McGee - IL (Region 5)
Libby
Asbestos - MT (Region 8)
Luminous
Processors, Inc. - GA (Region 4)
MacGillis
& Gibbs/Bell Lumber & Pole Co. - MN (Region 5)
Miami
Drum Services - FL (Region 4)
Operating Industries, Inc. Landfill - CA (Region 9)
Pepe Field Site
Publicker
Industries - PA (Region 3)
Region
1 Drinking Water Program
Region
2 Community Involvement
Rocky Mountain Arsenal Site - CO (Region 8)
San Gabriel Valley, Baldwin Park Site - CA (Region 9)
Sikes Disposal Pits - TX (Region 6)
Stringfellow
Site - CA (Region 9)
Superfund
Contract Laboratory Program
Superfund
Emergency Response Program
Superfund
Environmental Justice
Superfund
Redevelopment Initiative
Superfund
Reforms
Tennessee Products Site - TN (Region 4)
US Radium - NJ (Region 2)
Welsbach & General Gas Mantle - NJ (Region 2)
Wide
Beach Development - NY (Region 2)
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