Companies Preparing Superfund Sites for Next Major Hurricane

International Paper Co. and McGinnes Industrial Maintenance Corp., both working to clean up a Superfund site slammed by Hurricane Harvey last year, say it will take two years to figure out how to adapt the site’s waste-removal plan for the potential of severe weather.

That delay has environmentalists keeping their fingers crossed during this year’s hurricane season.

The season is already underway, and Texas and Louisiana aren’t changing their hurricane preparedness plans after a historic storm pounded their states. However, some companies that saw Harvey’s record-setting rain flood their contaminated sites are taking the lessons of the storm ...