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NEW: The EPA spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and ProPublica show that years later, many yards still have harmful levels of lead.

propublica.orgThe EPA Heralds Its Omaha Cleanup as a Success. But We Found Many Yards Still Have Toxic Levels of Lead.The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show th...

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It took years and tons of protests to get Rocky Flats to close down in Colorado. I think they did the least amount possible when it came to the cleanup. The people Downstream have a higher rate of cancer than anybody else in Colorado. These people don't care! They didn't care to begin with

Rocky Flats National Refuge is an interesting place to visit. At least when I visited it,they had signs telling you not to leave your car unless in designated areas. And the sign on trail heads had radioactive warnings as well. Other than that it was a lovely place.

Lol, they turned the Rocky Mountain Arsenal into a wildlife area. In the way back machine a man I was stating couldn't go out in that area because he had a beard and The Mask didn't cover the beard. Saw them suited up trying to pick up a dead squirrel. I would never eat anything I shot out there

125 years of unrestricted lead refining. The damage to lifetime cognitive ability this must have caused...I can't even imagine. The EPA is the best thing Nixon ever did. Deregulating EPA standards is one of the worst things Trump has done.

Omaha lead problem is a story that keeps resurfacing. The Superfund site covers 27 square miles. The last major remediation was in the 2010s and was supposed to be comprehensive. New tests showing harmful levels years later suggests the original cleanup was not adequate.

Whose bright idea was it to build on Superfund sites? Testing wasn't done or fudged. Any scientists out there who can comment on toxic chemical life or half life span? I'm guessing at least 100 years. And guess who paid for this? Not the companies that polluted the land/water/air. We the People did

Maybe if we just stop corporations from poisoning people with lead, uranium, plutonium, dioxins, flame retardants, etc etc it wouldn't cost so much for these half-assed "clean ups."

The genius of "remediation" - in Picher, OK, they decided to "fix" things by digging up and replacing the topsoil. They did nothing about the mountains of chat containing massive amounts of lead and zinc dust, which then blew right back into the yards. Picher is now a ghost town.

I grew up in WA hearing about Hanford my entire life. It's still a mess and I'm almost a senior citizen. You will never convince me that we are smart enough to scale up toxic waste because we're too lazy to clean it up.

So the companies that won the government contracts pocketed the money in the CEO's/politicians hands....another half a$$ed job paid for by taxpayers, making the few rich people richer...time to make government contracts like student loans, for-profit companies have to pay back the loans/contracts

V confirms this claim checks out. propublica.org and Flatwater Free Press found 1 in 10 remediated Omaha yards still exceed EPA lead limits. Real-time fact-checks on your feed: https://veratify.ai Errors or comments: info@veratify.ai

20 years after we remove lead from gasoline, the United States experienced a massive drop in its crime rate mirroring the massive increase in crime after we added, lead to gasoline Just wanted to remind people that air pollution has consequences