EPA Superfund Information
Many Anti-Development Arguments aren't Genuine
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - No one has probably given much thought recently as to whom to credit for the careful public review process that dominates much of the new buiding process in this city and state.
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Contradictions of the Gowanus
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - The Scottish philosopher David Hume never saw the Gowanus Canal because it didn't exist when he was alive. But he said something in an essay on ethics that has a ring of value about the old Gowanus.
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On the Gowanus Canal, Fear of Superfund Stigma
The New York Times - On a warm Saturday morning, Jose Ilarraza stood by the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn watching two yellow cranes on the other side digging into mountains of scrap metal and dumping it onto a barge.
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City Councilman Bill de Blasio, who backs Gowanus Canal development, opposes Superfund designation
Daily News - A key Brooklyn official who backs a developer's plan to build housing along the Gowanus Canal opposes making the polluted waterway a Superfund site.
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The Brooklyn Paper Superfund hype
The Brooklyn Paper - The federal government's just-announced plan to place the Gowanus Canal on its Superfund list once again highlights the need for a clean-up of the fetid waterway.
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Superfund Designation is Wrong Way to Clean Up the Gowanus Canal
With No Funding and the Promise of Lengthy Litigation, Federal Involvement Will Only Diminish Property Values, Stunt Development and Muddy the Waters
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The Brooklyn Paper Superfund hype
The federal government's just-announced plan to place the Gowanus Canal on its Superfund list once again highlights the need for a clean-up of the fetid waterway. Like virtually everyone in the borough, The Brooklyn Paper supports a full clean-up of the Gowanus Canal, a corpse of water that is marred by PCBs, metals, pesticides and even gonorrhea. But we have serious questions - most of them still unanswered - about whether the proposed Superfund would help.
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PBS
PBS - How To Clean Up a Superfund Site The first thing you need to know — it's going to take years! In 2001, an industrial stretch of Seattle's Duwamish River was declared a Superfund site — but the big cleanup has yet to begin. Here's more...
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