WILMINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency announced that a settlement of $48 million has been reached with four companies for the cleanup of the Olin Chemical superfund site.. The May 11 ...

The Olin Chemical plant in McIntosh, Ala. The Olin plant has been designated as a superfund since 1984, but only one known health assessment has been completed for the site since then.

Olin Corporation and BASF Corporation are challenging the data reporting requirements instituted by the EPA, more than two years after agreeing to clean up a superfund site in McIntosh, Ala.

The Hanlin-Allied-Olin Site is located about three miles south of Moundsville between the Ohio River and West Virginia Route 2. The cleanup would bring back the community’s use of the river for ...

There are more than 1,300 Superfund sites across the country, EPA said. The program languished for years because of a lack of funding but has been replenished after Congress included a "polluter ...

The problems faced by the Massachusetts Superfund program more than 30 years ago were slightly different, but the solution adopted then may still offer promise to the federal system.