[CPEO-BIF] "Richer communities get more US funds from EPA to clean up toxic brownfields"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Richer communities get more US funds from EPA to clean up toxic  
brownfields

By
Gwyneth Shaw, Connecticut Health Investigative Team,
Beverly Ford, New England Center for Investigative Reporting
Evelyn Larrubia, Investigative News Network
NBC News
September 16, 2012

In Oak Creek, Wis., a fence slashed with holes surrounds a barren 300- 
acre complex of buckling former factories where the soil and  
groundwater are polluted with arsenic and other chemicals.

Asbestos sprayed for almost six miles from a shuttered textile mill  
in Sprague, Conn., when children trying to free a canoe set it on fire.

A toxic cocktail of volatile organic compounds, petroleum,  
hydrocarbons and metals lies alongside the banks of Massachusetts's  
Malden River.

Despite about $1.5 billion in federal grants and loans doled out by  
the Environmental Protection Agency over 19 years, hundreds of  
thousands of abandoned and polluted properties known as "brownfields"  
continue to mar communities across the country. Some sites are  
contaminating groundwater, while at others the toxins' impact on the  
communities is unknown.

...

For the entire article, see
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/16/13899641-richer- 
communities-get-more-us-funds-from-epa-to-clean-up-toxic-brownfields

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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