Toxic Michigan Site ‘Cautionary Tale’ as Trump Eyes Environmental Cleanup Cuts

Toxic Michigan site a “cautionary tale” as environmental funding is under threat

ST. LOUIS, Mich. — As a boy, Gary Smith would ride his bike with friends down a dirt road to a pit used by a chemical company to incinerate hazardous waste. “It was a place to throw stuff, look around,” he said on an overcast May afternoon overlooking the pit site. “I know a few people that would hunt here … this is where they’d get their deer every year.” Now that burn pit is part of a 1.5 acre scar in the landscape that provides enduring evide…

Toxic Michigan site ‘cautionary tale’ as Trump eyes environmental cleanup cuts

In St. Louis, taxpayers have spent millions of dollars and decades cleaning a chemical plant that new research has shown caused numerous health problems. Cuts to the Superfund program would hinder similar cleanups.

Michigan’s toxic legacy: How a chemical plant’s error poisoned farms and generations of families - Investigate Midwest

ST. LOUIS, Mich. — As a boy, Gary Smith would ride his bike with friends down a dirt road to a pit used by a chemical company to incinerate hazardous waste.  “It was a place to throw stuff, look around,” he said on an overcast May afternoon overlooking the pit site. “I know a few people that would hunt here … this is where they’d get their deer every year.”  Now that burn pit is part of a 1.5 acre scar in the landscape that provides enduring evi…