Nearly $1 billion in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds will go toward starting construction on 22 new Superfund cleanup sites from the National Priorities List, as well as continuing work on the over 100 currently in progress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Feb. 10. This is the second infusion, after $1 billion in 2021, out of the $3.5 billion in Superfund cleanup funding provided by the law.
The 22 new cleanup projects cover sites in 15 states, including three each in Kansas, Massachusetts and New Jersey, in addition to projects in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Virginia and Vermont.