June 6, 2018 — The New England regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency talked climate change, Superfund and harbor economics on Tuesday during her first visit to New Bedford.
Appointed in November by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, Alexandra “Alex” Dunn spent the day in the city with Erin Chancellor, counsel to Pruitt, and New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell. They visited sites related to the Superfund work in New Bedford Harbor and met with waterfront business people at the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
“It is really exciting to be here today,” Dunn said, speaking at Riverside Park.
She said New Bedford Harbor is one of only two sites in New England on Pruitt’s list of redevelopment priorities, along with Raymark Industries in Stratford, Connecticut, “and that makes it a very special site to us.”
“This one of those sites that has that incredible redevelopment potential,” she said.