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Center Superfund Investigation Profiles Top Companies Linked to Toxic Waste Sites

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Press release: “Toxic waste still plagues American communities 27 years after the U.S. government created a program to identify and clean up the country’s worst sites, according to a two-part investigation by the Center for Public Integrity. Wasting Away: Superfund’s Toxic Legacy 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 cleanup.”
Related documents and links:

  • Wasting Away – Superfund’s Toxic Legacy – includes an interactive map of 1,623 sites that users may search to locate the number of sites in each state, by status on the National Priorities List
  • Superfund Companies and Agencies: “About 100 companies are connected to more than 40 percent of America’s most dangerously contaminated toxic waste sites, according to an analysis of a controversial and confidential government document obtained by the Center for Public Integrity.”
  • EPA Document Lists Firms Tied to Superfund Sites
  • Superfund Progress Drops Off Under Bush
  • Superfund’s Shell Game – As ownerships change, companies’ environmental liabilities sometimes get lost in the shuffle
  • Lobbying the EPA Takes Money — and Connections – 71 companies spent more than $1 billion and hired former agency officials
  • Industry Sponsors EPA Travel – Special interests spent nearly $12 million on trips for agency officials
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