Superfunds: The Toxic Waste Site Next Door - Paul Voosen

Superfunds are waste sites that often include chemical and industrial pollutants, often dangerous to those living adjacent to them. And, as Paul Voosen tells it in the December 2014 National Geographic magazine, as many as sixteen percent of Americans live within just a few miles of one of the dumps tagged by the EPA as a priority for cleanup. While many of the biggest disaster sites have since been cleaned up, such as New York state's Love Canal, others still require active attention from the fund that was created to clean the areas in 1980. Voosen says that the waste areas tend to be in areas heavy in industry and manufacturing in the early and middle 20th Century, but they might be where you least expect to find them.