Two nearby industrial wastelands have been cleaned up and transformed into city parks. But the Acme site is still contaminated with a century’s worth of chemicals and heavy metals that endanger visitors, neighbors and wildlife.
The federal Superfund law gives the EPA power to take polluters to court seeking payment to clean up the messes they leave behind. But when there is no corporation left to go after, the burden is shifted to taxpayers.
Money from several big infrastructure bills approved by Congress since Biden took office is rejuvenating that part of the Superfund program, as is the renewal of“Adding the Acme Coke site to the gives Chicagoans a chance to cleanup a site with contamination nearly 100-years in the making,” Debra Shore, the EPA’s regional administrator, said in a statement. “This area of Chicago is already overburdened with legacy contamination.
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