[CPEO-BIF] Bethlehem Steel site, Turner Station, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Proposed Cleanup of a Baltimore County Superfund Site Stirs Questions and Concerns in a Historical, Disinvested Community
Strapped with legacy pollution, residents of Turner Station want the EPA to satisfy their worries before proceeding.


By Aman Azhar
Inside Climate News
February 13, 2024


The dimly lit community hall of the Sollers Point Multipurpose Center in the historic African American community of Turner Station was only partially full. 

A handful of residents from the Baltimore County neighborhood had turned up to hear Environmental Protection Agency officials present the $45 million clean up plan for a section of Bear Creek, located to the west of the Sparrows Point peninsula, where steelmaking and ship building industries prospered between 1887 and 2013. 

Founded in the late 19th century, Turner Station is a classic example of a post-industrial American community that attracted Black workers from the South, many of whom found employment at Bethlehem Steel’s nearby shipyard. When it ceased operations in Baltimore, the company left behind a huge legacy pollution site at the doorstep of the adjacent community. 

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For the entire article, see
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/13022024/proposed-cleanup-of-baltimore-county-superfund-site-stirs-questions-in-disinvested-community/

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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