National Park Service and Royal Navy Agree to Protect 18th-Century Shipwreck

I love it when my worlds collide in stories like this. The National Park Service announced today that it will protect an 18th-century British warship that sank near present-day Miami, under the terms of an international memorandum signed with the Royal Navy. HMS Fowey, a frigate carrying 20 guns, launched from the British port of …

Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood Superfund Sites

Now that I’m on the EPA’s local media mailing list, I noticed a blog post from the EPA regional team managing the Hudson River dredging project, a five-year initiative to remove “2.65 million cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment from a 40-mile stretch of the upper Hudson.” More than one million cubic yards have been removed …