EPA intends to delete eight sites from its list of priority Superfund cleanups.
Speeding up cleanup timelines is a Trump administration priority — especially in light of ambitions to repurpose some contaminated properties for data center development.
The agency will publish a proposal Wednesday to remove six sites and partially delete two others upon determining “that no further response is appropriate,” according to a prepublished version of the rule released Tuesday for public inspection.
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The Superfund National Priorities List — the rundown of cleanups that EPA deems to be of national priority due to presence of hazardous pollutants — includes 1,343 sites, a majority of which were listed before 2000.
