WASHINGTON, May 13-- The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change issued the following testimony by Laurie Droughton Matthews, of counsel at Morgan, Lewis and Bockius ...

The long-simmering dispute between EPA and local residents came to a boil August 9 at a public hearing in Kellogg. Dan Opalski, cleanup director for EPA’s regional office in Seattle, tried to convince ...

Congress created the Superfund program to address the most contaminated sites in the nation. Enacted in 1980, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former J.H. Baxter plant in Eugene will soon officially be a "superfund site," allowing for the next phase of cleanup at the ...

The Comprehensive Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA or “Superfund”) imposes strict, joint and several liability on responsible parties for remediation of contaminated properties. As ...

For most of this century, I’ve been asked with some regularity whether Superfund was dead. I’ve always considered that question to be a victory of hope over expectation. Notwithstanding frequent ...

WASHINGTON — Clean-up efforts at 49 hazardous waste sites across the U.S. will begin thanks to $1 billion from the bipartisan infrastructure law, the Environmental Protection Agency said Friday, ...

Delaware’s history and reputation as an industrial and corporate hub precedes much of what people know about the First State, but that impact goes further than economic factors. Today, around 1 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As of December 2023, New Jersey had 115 Superfund sites listed on the Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List ...

TACOMA -- A century of soaking lumber with toxic preservatives, whipping up massive batches of chemicals and smelting heavy metals left Commencement Bay about as polluted as a place can get. The bay ...