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• EPA Begins Historic Full-Scale Dredging of Gowanus Canal Superfund Site

  EPA News Release: EPA Begins Historic Full-Scale Dredging of Gowanus Canal Superfund Site

  • Release Date: November 16, 2020

• Nearing Full Implementation, EPA’s Lean Management System Delivers Results

  EPA News Release: Nearing Full Implementation, EPA’s Lean Management System Delivers Results

  • Release Date: November 12, 2020

• EPA Awards Source Reduction Grant to New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology

  Nationwide, 11 organizations across nine states will receive grant funding totaling $1.16 million to support pollution prevention.

  EPA News Release: EPA Awards Source Reduction Grant to New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Release Date: November 5, 2020

• EPA Marks Third Year of Historically High Superfund Site Deletions with Visit to Peter Cooper Superfund Site in Gowanda, New York

  Under the Trump Administration, EPA has deleted 82 sites from the NPL in four years equaling the number of deletions between 2008-2016

  EPA News Release: EPA Marks Third Year of Historically High Superfund Site Deletions with Visit to Peter Cooper Superfund Site in Gowanda, New York

  • Release Date: October 8, 2020

• EPA Finalizes Cleanup Plan to Address Creosote Contamination at the GCL Tie and Treating Superfund Site in Sidney, New York

  EPA News Release: EPA Finalizes Cleanup Plan to Address Creosote Contamination at the GCL Tie and Treating Superfund Site in Sidney, New York

  • Release Date: October 6, 2020

• EPA Announces 2020 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners

  Two Companies in Florham Park, N.J and Rochester, N.Y. among winners

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces 2020 Safer Choice Partner of the Year Award Winners

  • Release Date: September 25, 2020

• EPA Completes Cleanup of FMC Corp. Landfill Superfund Site

  EPA News Release: EPA Completes Cleanup of FMC Corp. Landfill Superfund Site

  • Release Date: September 22, 2020

• EPA Proposes Cleanup Plan to Address Creosote Contamination at the GCL Tie and Treating Superfund Site in Sidney, New York

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Cleanup Plan to Address Creosote Contamination at the GCL Tie and Treating Superfund Site in Sidney, New York

  • Release Date: August 20, 2020

• EPA Releases Ninth Update to the Administrator’s Superfund Emphasis List, Continuing the Commitment to Help Accelerate Progress at Sites Across the Country Newark, N.J. and Kent. N.Y. Sites Noted

  EPA News Release: EPA Releases Ninth Update to the Administrator’s Superfund Emphasis List, Continuing the Commitment to Help Accelerate Progress at Sites Across the Country Newark, N.J. and Kent. N.Y. Sites Noted

  • Release Date: August 12, 2020

• EPA Region 2 Continues to Address PFAS on the State and Local Level

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 2 Continues to Address PFAS on the State and Local Level

  • Release Date: July 29, 2020

• EPA Selects Remedy to Protect Residents at Arsenic Mine Superfund Site in Kent, New York

  EPA News Release: EPA Selects Remedy to Protect Residents at Arsenic Mine Superfund Site in Kent, New York

  • Release Date: June 30, 2020

• EPA Completes Steps to Transfer Access Road to Warren and Washington Counties Industrial Development Agency to Support Community Redevelopment

  EPA News Release: EPA Completes Steps to Transfer Access Road to Warren and Washington Counties Industrial Development Agency to Support Community Redevelopment

  • Release Date: June 18, 2020

• EPA Administrator Wheeler Appoints New Members to the Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Wheeler Appoints New Members to the Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee

  • Release Date: June 17, 2020

• EPA Announces FY 2019 Superfund Accomplishments Report

  Highlights Key Trump Administration Accomplishments, Focuses on Future

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces FY 2019 Superfund Accomplishments Report

  • Release Date: June 11, 2020

• EPA Announces $900,000 in Revolving Loan Funds to Clean Up and Reuse Brownfield Sites in the City of Camden, Niagara County and New York City

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces $900,000 in Revolving Loan Funds to Clean Up and Reuse Brownfield Sites in the City of Camden, Niagara County and New York City

  • Release Date: June 10, 2020