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Lake Onondaga and Other Superfund Sites

[N]ine Superfund sites line the shore of Onondaga Lake, around which the present-day city of Syracuse, New York, has grown. Thanks to more than a century of industrial development, the lake known as one of North America's most sacred sites is now known as one of the most polluted lakes in the United States."

-Kimmerer, from Braiding Sweetgrass, p. 312-313
(cited below)

Superfund Sites & Environmental Justice

Chapter in Braiding Sweetgrass

"The Sacred and the Superfund"
from Braiding Sweetgrass

Lake Onondaga Superfund Site

AND Legal Action by Onondaga Nation and Environmental Stakeholders

EPA: Superfund Site - Onondaga Lake
EPA page on Onondaga Lake
Saving a Sacred Lake: A Century of Pollution Haunts the Haudenosaunee
from American Indian, Magazine of Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sprin 2021
Onondaga Lake as a Superfund Site
from Onondaga Nation | People of the Hills site
Onondaga Lake: A Resource for Information and Public Outreach
from Atlantic States Legal Foundation, a non-profit environmental law center in Syracuse NY. "The cornerstone of ASLF’s work has been initiating the process of resuscitating Onondaga Lake and promoting green infrastructure and water resource protection in Central and Upstate New York."
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation FACT SHEET, 2009
2009 Fact Sheet on initial cleanup proposals
Onondaga Lake
from Onondaga Lake Environmental Institute
United States Announces $5.5 Million Settlement With GM To Resolve Natural Resource Damage Claims At Onondaga Lake Superfund Site Near Syracuse
2013 news brief from the US Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
EPA Community Update on Lake Onondaga Cleanup - Oct. 2022
The Complaint in the Onondaga Land Rights Action
Onondaga Nation Land Claim
Indian Law Resource Center
Judge Throws Out Onondaga Nation's Land-Claim Lawsuit
2010
1,000 Acres of Forest to be Returned to Onondaga Nation in Historic Lake Cleanup Agreement
Syracuse.com news, Aug. 04, 2022

US Superfund Sites

EPA: CERCLA (Superfund) Overview
Search for Superfund Sites Where You Live
EPA - search by state. You can narrow by location.
Superfund Sites (EPA)
Set limiters to identify superfund sites. Includes filters for Native nations, government entity, type of contamination, region, and more
Dept. of Ecology WA State: Cleanup Sites
Superfund Sites in Reuse in Washington
Superfund Redevelopment Program - Location tool

US Law

Environmental Law Advocacy

Sierra Club Environmental Law
EarthJustice
US-based legal climate action group
WA State Attorney General: Environmental Advocacy

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