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Wasting Away: Superfund's Toxic Legacy

  • Organization: Public Integrity
  • Date Created: Tuesday, May 01, 2007
  • Submitted: Tuesday, May 01, 2007
  • Attachment(s): LINK
Toxic waste still plagues American communities 27 years after the U.S. government set up a program to identify and clean up the country's worst sites. A one-year investigation by the Center for Public Integrity reveals the beleaguered state of the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund effort, uncovers the companies and government agencies linked to the most sites and tracks progress of the clean up.