EPA to Begin Pensacola 'Mount Dioxin' Groundwater Cleanup — SkimNews
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- EPA is set to begin groundwater cleanup this fall at a Superfund site in Pensacola, Florida, nicknamed 'Mount Dioxin,' decades after the site received its designation
- Bureaucratic mismanagement at the toxic waste site led the EPA to relocate about 400 households
Why it matters: After decades of delay since the Superfund designation and the prior displacement of roughly 400 households, the fall start date finally pins a concrete cleanup timeline to a site long defined by bureaucratic mismanagement — moving a long-stalled case from paperwork to actual groundwater remediation.
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