In May 2017, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt formed a Superfund Task Force with the goal to streamline and improve the Superfund program. On August 10, 2017, the new Superfund task force provided recommendations on cleaning up sites currently on the NPL in an expedited manner. The task force is cross populated with representatives from the Office of Land and Emergency Management and the Office of Enforcement and […]

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Efforts to stop the natural gas leak at the Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) Aliso Canyon Underground Storage Facility in Porter Ranch, California finally have been completed. On February 18, 2016, the California Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) confirmed that SoCalGas successfully has permanently sealed and removed from service the well that had been leaking methane and other natural gas constituents. The leak, which was discovered on […]

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Residents along the Animas River in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, have deemed their river a “crime scene.” EPA and its contractors could be criminally responsible for violating the Clean Water Act as a result of the recent toxic spill in Colorado to the Animas River caused by EPA workers. CWA is the primary Federal statute governing the restoration and maintenance of the “chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the […]

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On August 5th, a team from EPA was investigating an abandoned mine called the Gold King, located near Durango, Colorado. The Gold King mine had been abandoned in 1923, but EPA had been investigating a leak from the mine of contaminated water. EPA was implementing a project to cap a nearby mine, which required the installation of a drainage pipe at the Gold King Mine. To do so, a worker […]

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