The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund clean-up projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama era, according to 2019 figures quietly released by the Environmental Protection Agency over the winter holidays.
The accumulation of Superfund projects that are ready to go except for money comes as the Trump administration routinely proposes funding cuts for Superfund and for the EPA in general.
— Associated Press
Under the current presidential administration, funding earmarked for cleaning up superfund sites has slowed to a trickle. According to an Associated Press report, the number of unfunded projects has ballooned from 12 in 2016, President Barack Obama's last year in office, to 34 this year.
Sites that need cleaning up include abandoned gold, lead and copper mines, according to the report, as well as lead contamination leftover from industrial uses at sites and pollution resulting from petrochemical manufacturing operations. In all, unfunded superfund clean-up sites exist in 17 states and Puerto Rico; President Donald Trump has repeatedly pushed to substantially reduce funding appropriated for both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Superfund program it oversees.
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