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NEW BEDFORD — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is in its final years of cleaning up one of the nation's 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 will continue shoreline remediation and salt marsh planting along the Upper Harbor on both the New...

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 poster, “we have met the enemy, and he is us.”  Four years ago, then-new EPA Administrator Scott...

Scott pruitt thinks he's 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 pruitt's epa, mr. nino perrotta. he was the driving force behind the epa's massive security expenditures under pruitt, including the soundproof booth -- soundproof booth he put in his office that is definitely not a sk...

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? it's a fund. scott pruitt thinks he is super. why not? the details are a little sketchy on what exactly mr. kelly did to get banned from banking for life and how ...

We only found out about it thanks to a propublica investigation months after he was hired. now, though, he's 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, that's the story of michael roman. also -- boom, yes. i'm 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 also need to add albert kelly to this wall, known to his friends as kel, epa senior adviser on th...