Stimulus money put to work at Superfund sites
MAY 27, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023372
NPR : A hundred years ago, the Welsbach and General Gas Mantle factories kept the lights on across the country by making a popular precursor to the light bulb called a mantle, but they left a toxic, radioactive legacy behind in Camden and Gloucester City, NJ.As part of the economic stimulus package, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to spend more than $25 million to accelerate the cleanup at the Welsbach and General Gas Mantle Superfund site. It’s one of 50 contaminated properties getting injections of cash totaling $600 million from the recovery funds. That’s more than double what the EPA usually spends on these projects each year.
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