EPA to track new metrics on improving Superfund program

EPA is pledging to continue tracking and reporting on the progress of its Superfund program by creating a new set of performance measures even as it announces the end of a task force that in 2017 issued dozens of recommendations on how to speed cleanups at the nation’s most contaminated sites. “Although EPA is concluding the Superfund Task Force, this important work continues until every site on the [National Priorities List (NPL)] is cleaned up and deleted!” EPA says in...