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2 unusual facts about Superfund


New Idria, California

In 2011, New Idria was re-listed as a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund site, owing to unchecked mercury run-off and contamination.

Onondaga people

In doing so they hope to obtain increased influence over environmental restoration efforts at Onondaga Lake and other EPA Superfund sites in the claimed area.


Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site

Atlas Asbestos Mine Superfund Site is located within the Clear Creek Management Area near Fresno County eighteen miles northwest of Coalinga, California.

Beulah Landfill

The Beulah Landfill Superfund Site is a 101-acre site located in Escambia County, Florida,

J.D. Strong

Strong has worked with northern Ottawa County officials on a massive buyout assistance program to relocate families and businesses from the nation’s most hazardous Superfund Site—the Tar Creek Superfund Site in Picher, Oklahoma.

Laurence Tribe

Tribe represented General Electric in its defense against its liability under Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("Superfund"), in which GE and Tribe unsuccessfully argued that the act unconstitutionally violated General Electric's due process rights.

Pneumatic fracturing

The clean-up technique was developed and patented through the research of various professors at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1996 with hopes of cleaning up various United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites which are some of the most heavily contaminated sites in the country.

Rita Lavelle

Lavelle was convicted on federal charges of perjury related to an investigation into misuse of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's "Superfund" money during her tenure with the agency, and irregularities at the Stringfellow Acid Pits, a major hazardous waste site.

Stringfellow

Stringfellow Acid Pits, a US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site in California.

Superfund Group

Superfund promotes its funds by sponsoring cultural institutions like the Viennese Symphony Orchestra and the American Ballet Theatre, sports teams and personalities like Austrian soccer team Kapfenberger SV and World Cup overall champion alpine skier Bode Miller, and some other pop-culture events such as the Women's World Awards.


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