HELPFUL LINKS

Superfund Information

Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund

Up to the minute news from Google News

The Environmental Protection Agency

Superfund program: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/index.htm

Federal register for NPL sites: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/frlist.htm

Locate NPL sites: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/locate.htm

Hudson River Dredging Project 

General Electric's dredging project site: http://www.hudsondredging.com

Scenic Hudson: http://www.scenichudson.org

Clearwater: http://www.clearwater.org

Friends of the Hudson: http://www.friendsofhudson.com/news.html

EPA project site: http://www.epa.gov/hudson

Citizen Action

Write your Congressperson: http://www.congress.org

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 This project was completed by Clara McConnell for Citizen Science, a class at Macalester College, in the spring of 2007. All photos are licensed by Creative Commons. This site was made with Nvu.