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This is a list of Superfund sites in Massachusetts designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. . The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contamination
Councilor-at-Large and City Council Vice Chair Khrystian King said the order asks important questions, especially about whether new gas stations are in alignment with the city's environmental plans.
In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the city had its territory enlarged, gaining the parishes of Warndon and St Peter the Great County and it became a non-metropolitan district, with Hereford and Worcester County Council providing county-level services. [5]
In total, nine projects that are proposing 2,015 units have been hit with delays including 340 Main St., Green Island Boulevard, 3 Eaton Place, 5 Salem Square, 44 Grafton St., 274 Franklin St ...
From 2018 to 2022, statewide overdose fatalities grew by 15.7%; Worcester exceeded that trend with an increase of 17.8% over the same time period, according to the city's Health Department.
The Notre Dame des Canadiens was a landmark church which faced Salem Square and Worcester Common from 1929 to 2018. [5] In the 1920s, the Catholic Church purchased the Baptist Church on Salem Square and razed it in 1927 to build a new church to serve the city's French Catholic population, the cathedral-like Notre Dame des Canadiens. [5]
Some parts of Worcester, especially urban heat islands in the city’s downtown core, are at least 10 degrees hotter on some summer days.
Thu Nguyen (born 1991 or 1992) [1] is a Vietnamese-born American politician and community organizer who is a member of the Worcester City Council, serving since 2022. Nguyen is the first openly non-binary candidate elected to public office in Massachusetts history.