Gov. Edwards wants EPA to help clean up Capitol Lakes

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Gov. John Bel Edwards today sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency as the final step required to classify the heavily contaminated Capitol Lakes as a Superfund site to make them eligible for federal cleanup, oversight and funding.  Contamination from polychlorobiphenyls, chemicals formerly used in industrial products, has been an issue in the lakes

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