Talk:Superfund

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 11:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Proposed move to Superfund

  • Oppose the move. "Superfund" may be unambiguous within the US environmental community, but for the general WP readership it is just a general term. Besides it is not the official name of the program, and there is at least one other "Superfund": see "Superfund (disambiguation)". In fact, Superfund should be (or redirect to) the disamb article. Jorge Stolfi 15:11, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. From Google:
    • Results 1 - 10 of about 444 for "Superfund Investment Group"
    • Results 1 - 10 of about 330,000 for +Superfund +Austria -epa -environment.
    • Results 1 - 10 of about 6,720,000 for +Superfund +EPA.
    • Results 1 - 10 of about 5,640,000 for +Superfund +environment.
    • Results 1 - 10 of about 3,980,000 for +Superfund +toxic.
    • —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 16:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Support The EPA use is overwhelmingly the most common. older ≠ wiser 02:24, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

[edit] List of superfunds

Should we set up a list of Superfund sites, with information about each one? Chadlupkes 04:58, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't see a problem with that, though it should definetly be in a seperate page (with a link to it from here, and a small paragraph describing it, of course). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.194.72.243 (talk • contribs) 12:23, April 24, 2006
Well, there are over a thousand of of them, and looking at the list, many of them aren't really noteworthy (example: ENVIROCHEM CORP. ZIONSVILLE, IN). I think a category for existing sites would be appropriate. A full list would be silly. A list of noteworthy Superfund sites, including major sucesses should be included on this page. Cacophony 05:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
What about the first sites? Weren't there five? MMetro (talk) 01:53, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citation

The citation to the comment, "Congress provided the oil industry an exemption of liability for the cleanup of petroleum in return for a fee on petroleum products to fund cleanups of other toxic substances.[3]" does not provide any support any support for the assertion of this statement. I hope there will be no objection in removing the sentence until a suitable citation can be found. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Slade1411 (talk • contribs) 23:34, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map request

Map needed
 It is requested that a map or maps be included in this article to improve its quality.
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It would be interesting to have the sites plotted onto a national map, even if there is not a list of all 1000+ in the encyclopedia. (That can be left to external sites.) -- Beland 19:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

If anyone wants to take this on, the data needed is freely available at http://www.nationalatlas.gov/. Kmusser 19:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

--==Clarification== Are the sites that are "delisted" cleaned up, or just removed? -- Beland 19:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


The introduction claims 1240 sites. The Last line of the entry states over 1300. Does anyone know which is correct?