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Cutting Superfund’s budget will slow toxic waste cleanups, threatening public health and property values

  • Written by Katherine Kiel, Professor of Economics, College of the Holy Cross
imageCleanup at the GE Housatonic Superfund site in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 2007. Years of PCB and industrial chemical use at GE's Pittsfield facility and improper disposal led to extensive contamination around the town and down the entire length of the Housatonic River.USACE/Flickr, CC BY-ND

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