On Dec. 12, Pete Grannis, commissioner of the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, penned a letter to the Federal Environmental Protection Agency with a request: take over cleanup of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, using the federal Superfund program.
The canal is heavily polluted, and while some cleanup work is under way, the state requested that the federal government step in, using its litigation-heavy program that assigns fault and makes those responsible for the pollution pay for...
