Groundwater Cleanup Set to Begin This Fall at North Florida Site, Decades After Superfund Designation
Plenty of storms have hit Pensacola, Florida’s westernmost city, in the 450 years since its founding, but among the worst has been the storm over the toxic…
Inside Climate News reports: Plenty of storms have hit Pensacola, Florida’s westernmost city, in the 450 years since its founding, but among the worst has been the storm over the toxic waste site nicknamed “Mount Dioxin.”
Bureaucratic mismanagement led to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relocating about 400 households from the neighborhoods around the site beginning in the mid-1990s.
This environment story centres on the United States. Names and organisations mentioned in the coverage include North Florida Site, Groundwater Cleanup Set and Begin This Fall.
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