Abandoned Quote by Sandra Steingraber
“By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.”
About This Quote
Source Report: EPA Superfund Program Overview, 2009
The EPA has identified thousands of contaminated sites, many abandoned, requiring costly cleanup funded by a federal superfund
In simple terms: Many polluted sites need cleanup, funded by a special federal program
Key Takeaway
Advocate for stronger environmental remediation policies
Themes
environment
policy
pollution
Mood
concerned
urgent
Type
activist
informative
When to use this quote
- community activism
- policy reform
- corporate responsibility
- environmental education
Key Concepts
public health
economics
regulation
Questions to Reflect On
- How can communities accelerate Superfund cleanups?
- What responsibilities do polluters have for remediation?
A Different Perspective
Funding and political will often limit timely remediation
