Toxic remnants of New Jersey's industrial heyday dot a landscape at risk from a warming world, where increasingly intense storms and rising sea levels threaten to unleash contaminants from the state's most polluted places.
Martin Aaron Inc. Superfund site in Camden, N.J. Millions of Americans live within a mile of Superfund sites that are located in areas prone to flooding or vulnerable to rising seas.Martin Aaron Inc. Superfund site in Camden, N.J. Millions of Americans live within a mile of Superfund sites that are located in areas prone to flooding or vulnerable to rising seas.
Spurred by Hurricane Harvey’s inundation of Houston in 2017, the U.S. Government Accountability Office “We’re happy to see that EPA has taken action and moved forward,” Gomez said. “But in terms of what’s happening at each specific site, I think requires a little bit more work.” Higher sea levels serve to make coastal storms like hurricanes and nor’easters more damaging, because they give storm surge a head start before rushing ashore.
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