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Gov. Edwards Sends Letter to the EPA Requesting the Capitol Lakes be Designated as a Superfund Site to Receive Federal Funding for Pollution Removal
December 20, 2022
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Dec. 20 -- Gov. John Bel Edwards, D-Louisiana, issued the following news:

Gov. John Bel Edwards sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the final step required to classify the heavily contaminated Capitol Lakes as a Superfund site, thereby making them eligible for federal cleanup, oversight and funding.

"The lakes are a wonderful asset for our state, but we have known for quite some time that they have been plagued by p . . .

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