The worsening wildfires, floods and hurricanes
of climate change threaten at least 60% of
U.S. Superfund sites, and efforts to strengthen
the hazardous waste sites are stalling in some
vulnerable regions as the Trump administration
plays down the threat, a congressional
watchdog agency says.
The Environmental Protection Agency
responded to Monday’s report of the
Government Accountability Office by rejecting
many of its findings. That includes dismissing
GAO investigators’ recommendation that the
agency and Administrator Andrew Wheeler
explicitly state that the EPA’s mission includes