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NEW BEDFORD — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in its final years of cleaning up one of the nations largest Superfund sites, the New Bedford Harbor, say agency officials.  The EPA held a public meeting Wednesday evening with about 25 members of the public and local government in virtual attendance. Last year, the agency finished underwater dredging, completed shoreline remediation of certain zones, closed cleaning facilities, and planted salt marshes. This year, the agency ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The rhetoric of enforcement under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601-75, plays well in public.  The government seeks “cleanup” and makes “the polluter pay.”  Cf. S. Rep. No. 96-848 at 13 (1980); Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian, 140 S. Ct. 1335, 1345 (2020).  Contrast that with mitigating climate change where, in the words of the Pogo Earth Day p...

Scott pruitt thinks hes super. why not? the details are a little sketchy on what exactly mr. kelly did to get banned from banking for life and how that qualified him to run the superfund program in the epa, but now, he, too, has resigned from the trump administration, so, we can put him on the wall. the fifth new name is also scott pruitt epa guy, the chief of security at scott pruitts epa, mr. nino perrotta. he was the driving force behind the epas massive security expenditures under pruitt, in...

The head of i.c.e. is retiring, he was appointed in november. he is gone now, which is quick. we also need to add albert kelly to this wall, known to his friends as kel, epa senior adviser on the superfund program. just before albert kelly was banned for life from the banking drink by the fdic -- banned for life, wow! just before that, scott pruitt asked him to come to the epa with him to run the superfund program. why is that weird? its a fund. scott pruitt thinks he is super. why not? the deta...

We only found out about it thanks to a propublica investigation months after he was hired. now, though, hes gone. we were never formally told he arrived. we were never told what he did. we do know on his way out, they gave him a snazzy pair of white house cuff links. and we know that because he tweeted it. so, thats the story of michael roman. also -- boom, yes. im so excited. we have so much space! the head of i.c.e. is retiring. he was appointed in november. he is gone now, which is quick. we ...

But then also, at the environmental protection agency, if youre thinking about cutting the superfund program, many of the toxins that will be flowing through the water in the sed wants, those could also have huge impacts. so i really hope that our new administration will begin to think more critically and not have blind spots when it comes to climate and the impacts that it additionally places in these various communities and across our country. because they get a double wham my, if you will. th...

Million. its the second largest estuary in the nation, and leads the country in the production of farmed shell fish. while he did not address these specific programs, epa administrator scott pruitt said thursday, some other programs could be spared. >> there are some concerns about some of these grant programs that epa has been a part of historically. i want you to know that with the white house and also with congress, i am communicating a message that the brown fields program, the superfund pro...

We wont ask you why but thank you very much. >> the president follows me wherever i go. >> brian: thats got to be it. $2 million sounds like a lot of money but for our viewers that run companies they say you can have that in rough knew easily. you think this is a way of back door tax to go after companies to pay for other stuff. >> yeah, i like the way you put it. its a superfund super tax. for those who are not familiar with the superfund program, this is a program that was started in the late ...