The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its underground storage tank (UST) partners recently announced a milestone of cleaning up more than 500,000 petroleum releases from UST systems across the nation. As a result of this work over the past 33 years, the health of people living near those cleaned up releases and the environment are better protected.
“Cleaning up more than one-half million underground storage tank releases means that roughly 90% of these releases no longer pose a threat to the public’s health or our soil and groundwater. Since these sites are disproportionately located in overburdened communities, this is an important
