Superfund program

The Environmental Protection Agency says the Carver Terrace Superfund site in Texarkana poses no environmental threat to the public. The agency's assessment comes after years of attention to contamination at the site, which was placed on the Superfund program's national priorities list decades ago. The statement is being reported by local outlet the Texarkana Gazette, with residents and community groups watching closely for follow-up on cleanup plans.

A petition is circulating calling for a Niagara Falls family to be relocated, in a case linked to the Love Canal area. The Love Canal neighborhood, built atop buried chemical waste, became one of America's most infamous environmental disasters in the late 1970s and led to the creation of the Superfund program. The petition's specifics and the family's circumstances are not detailed, but the case has drawn local attention in western New York.