Superfund
Special Guest: Julie Bargmann
Julie Bargmann is a landscape architect specializing in Superfund sites and other toxic places. Her firm has worked on the reuse of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan. She also teaches landscape architecture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
Montana Superfund Site
The Anaconda copper mining complex was operational for one hundred years. Now its legacy is that with 120 miles of surrounding contaminated waterways, it is one of the nation’s largest Superfund sites. From Butte, Montana, Jyl Hoyt reports on some of the difficulties encountered in cleaning up the region.
Superfund Reform, or Corporate Welfare?
While many large polluters are being held accountable for widespread toxic dumping, some small businesses with minor violations are getting caught up in the same legal and financial complexities of Superfund laws. Patrick Cox of member station WBUR in Boston reports on a small Massachusetts firm that’s inherited some big business and legal problems.
Back Door Enviro Policy
Since President Clinton has taken office, many important environmental protection bills such as the Endangered Species Act, Superfund and the Clean Water Act are up for renewal. But only one major environmental law has made it through Congress and been signed. The slow down in enviro legislation hasn’t stopped some lawmakers from trying to ease […]
The New Majority Rules: What’s Ahead
Host Steve Curwood interviews Dale Curtis, editor of the political news wire service Greenwire, and Dan Weiss of the Sierra Club on the recent election’s Republican sweep and implications for the environmental movement. Curtis and Weiss discuss Superfund, the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and Farm bills, and touch on some anticipated general trends.