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Minnesota Environment -
Spring 2003

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Superfund Basics

If you need the basics of the Superfund program, this is the place to start. Read this article to get the nuts and bolts.

Federal Superfund: The Polluter Pays

Environmental disasters spurred the creation of the federal Superfund program. Instead of preventing pollution, this program was designed to clean up past pollution. Read on to learn more about the history of this program.

State Superfund Program Does CERCLA One Better

To help expedite the clean up of contaminated sites, Minnesota created its own Superfund program in 1983. Read this article to find out why this approach has worked so well.

Closed Landfill Program

The cleanup of permitted, sanitary landfills posed special challenges to the Superfund process. However, Minnesota designed a better “fix” for these old landfills.

Voluntary Investigation and Cleanup Program

While state and federal Superfund programs did succeed in getting polluted properties cleaned up, both were notoriously slow and litigious. The VIC program was created to help speed up the cleanup of sites. Read this article for more information about this award-winning program.

Finishing Superfund

With the worst of the polluted sites in Minnesota taken care of, what’s in store for the Superfund program? Read this article to find out.

Voices of Experience

Due to the success of the Superfund program and its rather lengthy history, we decided to interview five people who’ve been closely involved with it in one fashion or another. Read this article to find out what they had to say…