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ICYMI: Houston Chronicle: Site of former foundry in Houston's Fifth Ward among those EPA wants redeveloped

01/17/2018
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EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov)

By Lise Olsen
January 16, 2018

The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it would recruit developers to help revamp a hand-picked selection of 31 old refineries, smelters and historically polluted lands formally designated for clean-up under a federal program reserved for the nation's worst toxic waste dumps.

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