superfund

The Velsicol Chemical Corporation (formerly Michigan Chemical) operated a plant in St. Louis, Michigan from the 1930s into the 1970s. Spills and chemical discharges contaminated sediment, surface soil and groundwater.

The U.S. EPA announced 49 sites across the country would get a total of $1 billion, including four sites in Michigan.

The McLouth Steel plant property was a Superfund site. The first phase of cleanup is finished. Some Trenton residents want to turn the industrial site into an attracting Detroit River waterfront area.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finished the second phase of a new method for chemical pollution cleanup at a Superfund site in St. Louis,…

On December 20, a neon green slime was discovered leaking onto I-696 in Madison Heights. Soon after the leak was discovered, officials realized it was…

According to a report by the federal Government Accountability Office, 60% of Superfund sites nationwide are threatened by floods, wildfires, and…

Gary Sayers, the owner of a Madison Heights electroplating company, has been sentenced to a year in prison. That's after he violated hazardous waste…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has named the former McLouth Steel site in Trenton to its Superfund National Priorities List.That list is…

In 1973, a plant owned by Velsicol Chemical made a mistake and shipped a toxic flame retardant chemical to a livestock feed plant.That chemical was…

President Donald Trump's proposed budget calls for cutting money for cleaning up Superfund sites by a third. But the EPA's new head, Scott Pruitt, has…