Archived News Articles and Superfund Success Stories
News Articles Topics
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- 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
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
- EPA Recognizes Lenny Siegel as the Winner of the 2011 Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award. July 2011
- 2010 Citizen Excellence in Community Involvement Award September 2010
- Public Health Emergency in Libby Montana June 2009
- Palos Verdes Group Wins Citizen Excellence Award May 2009
- 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
- Superfund Releases Updated Green Remediation Strategy October 2010
- Solar Energy Powering Green Remediation of Vapor Intrusion at Homes in Grand Prairie, TX October 2009
- EPA Seeks Comment on Superfund Green Remediation Strategy; Issues Principles for Greener Cleanups September 2009
- Summitville Mine Hydro-Power Project to Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions June 2009
- Lowry Landfill Provides Enough Power to Supply the Needs of Nearly 3,000 Homes April 2009
- Draft Framework for Green Cleanup Standard for Public Review April 2009
- EPA released a guide that discusses methods related to evaluating timeframes for using natural attenuation to remediate contaminated groundwater. February 2012
- EPA Publishes Notice Identifying Hardrock Mining Industry for Financial Responsibility Requirements June 2009
- 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
- Martin-Marietta, Sodeyco, Inc Superfund site is set to become an Eco-Industrial Energy Park March 2012
- The Superfund program released frequently asked questions about addressing vapor intrusion February 2012
- A Superfund Job Training Initiative (SuperJTI) has started at the Passaic River Superfund site February 2012
- EPA Completes 10,000th Residential Yard Cleanup at Omaha Lead Site. To read more about the achievement of this important milestone January 2012
- The Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation recently released a suite of technical tools to assist Superfund site managers in the sampling and analysis of dioxin contaminated soils September 2011
- EPA Advancing Clean Up at 15 Hazardous Waste Sites, Proposing 11 Sites for Action September 2011
- EPA Superfund Program Preparation and Response to Hurricane Irene September 2011
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Biennial Report Requirements for Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Response Actions December 2011
- Construction Completion at Naval Station Norfolk Site November 2010
- Installation of Photovoltaic Solar Panels at Superfund Site Largest of Its Kind in California November 2010
- EPA Makes It Easier for States, Tribes and Others to Get Involved in Superfund Cleanup August 2010
- Collaboration Leads to Redevelopment Success May 2010
- EPA launches site to inform the public about health, environmental impacts of spill April 2010
- EPA Issues Policy on Siting Temporary Areas for Handling Contaminated Waste from Superfund Remedial Cleanups March 2010
- EPA Identifies Three Industries for Financial Obligations in Cleanup of Environmental Releases December 2009
- EPA Seeks Public Input on Plan to Develop Interim Preliminary Remediation Goals for Dioxin in Soil December 2009
- Analytical Chemistry Provides Key Answers to Superfund Site Contamination Problems October 2009
- 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 Proposes to Add Nine New Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List (NPL) October 2010
- EPA Adds Seven Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List/Actions to help clean up and revitalize local communities September 2010
- EPA Adds Ten Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List / EPA also proposes to add an additional nine new sites to the NPL March 2010
- EPA Adds Three Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund's National Priorities List November 2009
- EPA Adds 11 Hazardous Waste Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List / EPA also proposes to add an additional 10 new sites to the NPL September 2009
- EPA Adds Nine Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List and Proposes Additional 13 New Sites April 2009
- 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
- Excellence in Site Reuse Award Presented to the Town of Arlington, Tennessee December 2009
- Redevelopment at the Woolfolk Chemical Superfund Site September 2009
- Superfund Redevelopment Initiative 10th Anniversary August 2009
- Redevelopment of the Tex-Tin Superfund Site August 2009
- Superfund Reaffirms Commitment to Clean Up Contaminated Groundwater August 2009
- Redevelopment of the California Gulch Superfund Site July 2009
- Redevelopment of the South Point Plant Superfund Site July 2009
- Redevelopment of the Hiteman Leather Company Superfund Site July 2009
- Redevelopment at the Woolfolk Chemical Superfund Site July 2009
- Pemaco Site Revitalization May 2009
- 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 Releases FY 2009 Accomplishments Summary April 2010
- 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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