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No, this ain't some new Wall Street money-making scam designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Sadly, it's worse. Superfund is "a term used for the monies available to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to clean up abandoned or inactive hazardous waste sites."
The Sierra Club explains further: "When the EPA designates a Superfund site as 'human exposure not under control,' it means that contamination has been detected at a site at an unsafe level, and the possibility exits that humans may come into contact with the contamination, and the contamination has not been treated, stabilized, or contained well enough to prevent human exposure to contamination."
According to most recent data, human exposure to health-threatening chemicals is "not under control" at 149 Superfund sites while "migration of groundwater pollution is not under control at 226 Superfund sites."
While some of us can even find art in hazardous waste, we suggest you might want to find out where the Superfund sites are in your area.
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