TexPIRG Education Fund: New Report - Toxic Waste Cleanup Efforts Lag, Putting Texans at Risk
February 12, 2021
February 12, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 12 (TNSRep) -- The Texas Public Interest Research Group Education Fund issued the following news release:
A new report finds that only 10 of the nation's most toxic Superfund sites were cleaned up in Fiscal Year 2020 -- less than one seventh of the annual total in the 1990s. Environment Texas Research and Policy Center found that insufficient funding jeopardized the cleanup of 55 existing Superfund sites in Texas, as well as potential new sites such as the creoso . . .
A new report finds that only 10 of the nation's most toxic Superfund sites were cleaned up in Fiscal Year 2020 -- less than one seventh of the annual total in the 1990s. Environment Texas Research and Policy Center found that insufficient funding jeopardized the cleanup of 55 existing Superfund sites in Texas, as well as potential new sites such as the creoso . . .