Tom Gunnarson

There are tens of thousands of abandoned hazardous-waste sites
in our nation. Superfund—an Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) project—is the federal government’s program to clean up
those areas. Launched in 1999, under the Superfund program,
abandoned, accidentally spilled, or illegally dumped hazardous
waste that poses a current or future threat to human health or the
environment is cleaned up. A Superfund site is any land in the
country that the EPA has identified as a candidate for cleanup.