It's been described as a "ticking, toxic time bomb" — more than 230,000 tons of cancer-causing dioxin waste buried beneath and beside the San Jacinto River in far west Harris County.

For seven years, the "complete cleanup" ordered during the first Trump Administration has been stalled, but this week the Environmental Protection Agency instructed polluters Waste Management and International Paper to cease the delay tactics and finish cleaning up their mess at the notorious Superfund site known as the San Jacinto River Waste Pits.

Under constant pressure from community activists, the EPA announced it has accepted a plan to mitigate the challenging "northern impoundment" of the pits, 60% of which is submerged in the river.

The responsible companies have completed waste removal from the "so

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