7 Superfund Sites in the US

Hank Green of SciShow walks through seven Superfund Sites:

  1. Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York
  2. Reed-Kepler Park in west Chicago
  3. Hart Senate office building in Washington D.C.
  4. Blackburn and Union Privileges site in Walpole, Massachusetts
  5. Berkeley Pit in Montana
  6. Hudson River in New York
  7. CTS of Asheville in North Carolina

Superfund Sites are sites contaminated with hazardous substances that have been designated for clean-up by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA).

The complete list of Superfund Sites on the National Priorities List (NPL) Sites is available on the United States Environmental Protection Agency website.

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