A priority designation makes more long-term federal funding for cleanup available. Indiana has 39 active sites on the Superfund NPL list.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to tighten restrictions on lead dust in homes. But it wouldn’t affect those by Superfund sites like USS Lead in East Chicago.

The Environmental Protection Agency says replacing only some of the lead pipes leading to a home doesn’t reduce lead contamination in drinking water and can even make it worse when the old pipes are disturbed.

Experts say the discovery is the planet's largest fresh water system is alarming.

The fuel economy standards would have required new cars and light trucks to use less gas over time. The new proposal puts that on hold for another six years starting in 2020.

The standards require new cars and light trucks build after 2025 to get about 50 miles to the gallon.

The EPA said Tuesday that adding the city of Spencer's Franklin Street Groundwater Contamination site to the federal agency's priority list signals its commitment to cleaning up that contamination.

Indianapolis, Jeffersonville and Richmond are each getting $300,000 to either assess and clean up contamination or redevelop cleaned-up sites.

The proposed revisions include allowing individual states to set their own standards for coal ash disposal.

The site on Indianapolis' southwest side was the location of a retail battery sales store from about 1962 until 2008.