Biden administration announces new cleanup projects

[jgo]

Source: KZRG News

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the second wave of approximately $1 billion in funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to start new cleanup projects at 22 Superfund sites, including the Valley Park TCE Site in Valley Park, Missouri, and to expedite over 100 other ongoing cleanups across the country.

Thousands of contaminated sites exist nationally due to hazardous waste being dumped, left out in the open, or otherwise improperly managed, including in manufacturing facilities, processing plants, landfills, and mining sites. Superfund cleanups help transform contaminated properties and create jobs in overburdened communities, while repurposing these sites for a wide range of uses, including public parks, retail businesses, office space, residences, warehouses, and solar power generation. In addition, these sites can support natural areas, parks, and recreation facilities, providing greenspace and safe places for families to play outside.

Read more: https://newstalkkzrg.com/2023/02/12/biden-administration-announces-new-cleanup-project-in-missouri/

[mopinko]

1. news like this is gonna keep rolling out for the next 2 yrs.

while those idiots do nothing but have circle jerks.

[Aristus]

2. Coming soon: "HOW LONG IS THIS GOVERNMENT OVERREACH GOING TO GO ON?!?

The American people deserve to have a dirty, filthy, toxic, unsightly, and uninhabitable country, the way God intended!"

I'm sure Newsmax is working on just this sort of response...

[mopinko]

3. get me frank luntz!

this spin will be interesting.
the smart 1s, if there r any, will be there w the big scissors and silver shovels.

[NullTuples]

4. I was hoping he meant the Secret Service, FBI, Border Patrol, USPS & so on...

[NullTuples]

5. It scares me how many sites were never designated so developers could avoid the "stigma"

...that would hinder selling otherwise top-dollar homes, condos and retail developments.

Typically thanks to Republican Governors pushing back against (as mentioned in reply #2) "federal overreach".

A good example here in the Bay Area is Pete Wilson in the 1990's & Treasure Island Navel Base off the middle of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. It's rating was *twice* the threshold but, “the perceived stigma of (National Priorities List) listing and potential adverse economic effect” somehow magically stopped it from being listed. The Navy was then allowed to literally cover up with either soil or paving some of the worst contaminated areas, including those contaminated with radioactive materials. And now family homes & parks sit atop or next to that soil.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-Treasure-Island-poised-for-building-boom-14451339.php

Thank you, Joe Biden and Democrats for cleaning up the messes America's corporations & defense branches left behind for future generations.

[Wicked Blue]

6. Yuck. Just found out I used to live right next to one of the Superfund sites on the list.

The remediation area they will be working on is practically in our old back yard in South Plainfield NJ. We lived there in the early 1980s.

The flood-prone and polluted Bound Brook ran through the woods next to our house. When it flooded, the water spread into the yard and our basement. A few times the water in the basement was 3 feet deep. Heaven alone knows how much toxic stuff we waded through.

I had no idea that there was enough pollution (PCBs, etc) for the area to be declared a Superfund site.

The irony is that I was a reporter for the Star-Ledger during that time. I worked in the Middlesex County bureau and constantly was writing about toxic dump sites and hazardous waste spills. Little did I know I was living right next to a future Superfund site.

[Qutzupalotl]

7. Not to mention our airspace!

Thank you, Mr. President!