Posts Tagged ‘superfund’
EPA Rolls Back Regulations
April 3, 2020 – As the nation’s economy reels from the COVID-19 crisis, the Environmental Protection Agency has rolled back regulations, allowing for greater pollution. The surprise announcement came last week. Correspondent Laura Paskus talks about how the state is responding with Sec. James Kenney of the New Mexico Environment Department. Guest:Sec. James Kenney, New Mexico Environment Department Additional…
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March 8, 2019 – For this month’s installment of Our Land, environmental correspondent Laura Paskus travels to Socorro and a Superfund cleanup site where a plume of toxic groundwater from an old battery plant is seeping underneath homes. The Eagle Picher site has been a federally designated cleanup project since 2007, and the state has…
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