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Various of boat captain              2. SOUNDBITE (English) James...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART COURTESY NASA\u003cbr/\u003e              SHOTLIST:\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Seattle – December 16, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of boat captain\u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) James Rasmussen, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition director: \"Does anybody know what a superfund site is?\"\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition boat tour with students, parents\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) James Rasmussen, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition director: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The mud on the bottom of the river is contaminated. And that's for over a hundred years of industrial contamination.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition boat tour, including homes on river bank\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: New York – July 1/6, 2016\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Various of Gowanus Canal waters, people walking neighborhood next to it (first shot seen from high up in building)\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Houston  – August 29, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Various of flooding in Houston during Hurricane Harvey\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Highlands, Texas – September 29, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Various of superfund site San Jacinto River Waste Pit, mobile homes\u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Balestrine, lives near Superfund site: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Everything was coated with a, all the tools I've been cleaning, the cars, a soot, it's a slimy, I don't know, it's nasty.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Camden, New Jersey – December 11, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Various of Martin Aaron Superfund site\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Seattle – December 15, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Various of retail strip, home of the South Park neighborhood in Seattle \u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Shawna Murphy, lives near Superfund site: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"But the Superfund…it's the same thing, we can't afford to live anywhere else in Seattle so we do the best we can here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Pan of Duwamish River and South Park neighborhood\u003cbr/\u003e              COURTESY: NASA\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: International Space Station – August 24, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Hurricane Harvey from International Space Station\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Fort Myers, Florida – September 10, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Wide of palm trees during Hurricane Irma's landfall \u003cbr/\u003e              16. Pan of parking lot during Hurricane Irma\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Seattle – December 15, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Wide of Amy Snover, Climate Impacts Group director at her desk\u003cbr/\u003e              18. SOUNDBITE (English) Amy Snover, Climate Impacts Group director: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Floods of the future are going to be bigger and sometimes even in new places, enlarging the flood plain than they have in the past.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Tarpon Springs, Florida – December 14, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              19. Various of local resident Tony Leisner, waterfront Superfund sign and fencing\u003cbr/\u003e              20. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Leisner, lives near Superfund site: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I've got some commercial real estate and I would not be a buyer. I think the potential liability there not just financial but in loss of life from having something that's sitting in barrels that's out of sight, and our water levels keep rising, there is going to be infiltration there.\u003cbr/\u003e              ASSOCIATED PRESS  – AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Seattle – December 16, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              21. Various of Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition boat tour with students, parents.\u003cbr/\u003e              22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Santa Pablo, lives near Superfund site: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I hope they clean it up so the river is not contaminated anymore.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Pan up from river to front of boat with kids. \u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE: \u003cbr/\u003e              Nearly 2 million people in the U.S. live within a mile of 327 Superfund sites in areas prone to flooding or vulnerable to rising seas caused by climate change, according to an Associated Press analysis of flood zone maps, census data and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency records. \u003cbr/\u003e              Superfund sites are on the list of the nation's most polluted places. \u003cbr/\u003e              This year's historic hurricane season exposed a little-known public health threat: Highly-polluted sites can be inundated, potentially spreading toxic contamination.\u003cbr/\u003e              In Houston, more than a dozen Superfund sites were flooded by Hurricane Harvey, with breaches reported at two. \u003cbr/\u003e              In the Southeast and Puerto Rico, Superfund sites were battered by driving rains and winds from Irma and Maria.\u003cbr/\u003e              The vulnerable sites highlighted by AP's review are scattered across the nation, but Florida, New Jersey and California have the most, and the most people living near them. \u003cbr/\u003e              They are in largely low-income, heavily minority neighborhoods, the data show.\u003cbr/\u003e              Many of the 327 sites have had at least some work done to help mitigate the public health threat, including fencing them off and covering them in plastic sheeting to help keep out rainwater.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Obama administration assessed some of these at-risk places and planned to guard them from harsher weather and rising seas. \u003cbr/\u003e              EPA's 2014 Climate Adaptation Plan said prolonged flooding at low-lying Superfund sites could cause extensive erosion, carrying away contaminants as waters recede.\u003cbr/\u003e              President Donald Trump, however, has called climate change a hoax, and his administration has worked to remove references from federal reports and websites linking carbon emissions to the warming planet.\u003cbr/\u003e              EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has said he intends to focus on Superfund cleanup, and appointed a task force that developed a list of high-priority sites.\u003cbr/\u003e              The task force's 34-page report makes no mention of a flood risk to Superfund sites from stronger storms or rising seas, but eight of the 21 sites on EPA's priority list are in areas of flood risk. 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