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As part of U.S. President Joe Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Tuesday a third and final wave of more than $1 billion

Twenty-five toxic waste sites in 15 states will be cleaned up, and ongoing work at dozens of others will get a funding boost, as the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced a $1 billion infusion to the federal Superfund program. The money is the third and last installment in $3.5 billion allocated under the 2021 infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden. It will help clear a backlog of hazardous sites such as old landfills, mines and manufacturing facilities targeted by the 44-year-old Superfund program. Long-contaminated sites slated for cleanup include a former smelting...

GENEVA — After eight years of work dependent on the weather, the cleanup of neighborhoods surrounding the former Geneva Foundry is set to be finished in July.

The massive 20-year cleanup of a toxic legacy in south Minneapolis has now eliminated arsenic contamination for all but one residential yard, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday. The EPA's Superfund program dug up and trucked away the contaminated soil from the yards of 623 homes that had been poisoned by an old pesticide maker. The South Minneapolis Residential Soil ...