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AP finds climate change risk for 327 toxic Superfund sites

By JASON DEAREN, MICHAEL BIESECKER and ANGELIKI KASTANISDecember 22, 2017 GMT

AP: Hundreds of Superfund Sites Face Flood Risks

December 22, 2017 GMT

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AP Exclusive: Evidence of spills at toxic site during floods

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and FRANK BAJAKSeptember 19, 2017 GMT

PASADENA, Texas (AP) — The U.S. government received reports of three spills at one of Houston's dirtiest Superfund toxic waste sites in the days after the drenching rains from Hurricane Harvey finally stopped...

AP Exclusive: Toxic sites in likely path of Irma

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JASON DEARENSeptember 10, 2017 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Dozens of personnel from the Environmental Protection Agency worked to secure some of the nation's most contaminated toxic waste sites as Hurricane Irma bore down on Florida...

AP EXCLUSIVE: Toxic waste sites flooded in Houston area

By JASON DEAREN and MICHAEL BIESECKERSeptember 3, 2017 GMT

HIGHLANDS, Texas (AP) — As Dwight Chandler sipped beer and swept out the thick muck caked inside his devastated home, he worried whether Harvey's floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the old acid pit just a couple blocks away...