The Department of Energy [2]agreed to resume toxic waste cleanup at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [3], the Environmental Protection Agency [4]announced. The site is listed as one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the country, due to pollutants left from 1940s military operations and nuclear research. Marylia Kelley [5], executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs [6], expressed relief, saying, "It is absolutely critical for the community's health and safety that this toxic and radioactive mess at the Livermore lab main site gets cleaned up in a timely manner."
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/471
[2] http://www.energy.gov/
[3] https://www.llnl.gov/
[4] http://www.epa.gov/
[5] http://ploughshares.org/expert/141
[6] http://www.trivalleycares.org/
[7] http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12047457