Source: http://www.mlive.com, June 27, 2017
By: Garret Ellison
A major Michigan Superfund site is getting nearly $10 million from the Environmental Protection Agency this year to start cleaning up the toxic leftovers from an infamous chemical plant that made now-banned pesticides and fire retardants.
The EPA will spend $9.7 million to begin work in a polluted field along the Pine River in St. Louis where Velsicol Chemical Co. once operated a factory that manufactured DDT, among other compounds.
The money is a drop in the bucket of what’s needed to clean up the entire site, but local advocates are thrilled anyway because it’s a sign that remediation efforts are moving. Read more.