Cleaning the Gowanus: Finally, teens have turned the Gowanus Canal into a macabre costume party. Comments (1).

Cleaning the Gowanus: Mayor Bloomberg put the money where his mouth is last Friday as he he announced the start of a city-funded $150-million Gowanus Canal clean-up plan that he claims would be speedier than federal Superfund designation — but opponents contend wouldn’t sufficiently clean the fetid waterway. Comments (8).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The environmental watchdog group Riverkeeper has taken action against three companies along the Gowanus Canal for illegally dumping garbage into the already fetid corpse of water. Comments (4).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The Paterson administration has backed away from its surprise call last year to have the federal government lead a Superfund clean-up of the Gowanus Canal — and now says the Environmental Protection Agency should “carefully review” an alternate proposal from Mayor Bloomberg for decontaminating the waterway. Comments (4).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The Brooklyn Paper editorial board has heard the entire debate and makes its decision: We support the federal Superfund designation of the Gowanus Canal. Comments (3).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The Gowanus Canal is in an unusual position of having two governments bitterly fighting for the right to clean the horribly toxic waterway — and both Mayor Bloomberg and the federal Environmental Protection Agency are upping the rhetoric with less than a week left in the public debate. Comments (4).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The proposed Sponge Park along the banks of the fetid Gowanus Canal is finally living up to its name in one way: it’s soaking up federal money. Comments (3).

Cleaning the Gowanus: NEWS ANALYSIS: Both proposals for cleaning the Gowanus Canal are flawed. Comments (6).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The feds cast doubt on the city’s plan to clean the Gowanus Canal — but admit that the Superfund plan would not fix the biggest problem: the hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage that end up in the canal whenever it rains. Comments (16).

Cleaning the Gowanus: A proposal for a federally overseen clean-up of the Gowanus Canal sounds like something that everyone can get behind, but it’s actually pitting neighbor against neighbor over facts and hearsay that are as murky as the waterway itself. Comments (3).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The ongoing fight between Mayor Bloomberg and the federal government over the cleanup of the heavily polluted Gowanus Canal is not just about protecting proposed real-estate projects, but also the city treasury. Comments (14).

Cleaning the Gowanus: There’s substantial debate over whether federal Superfund designation is a good thing or a bad thing for a toxic site. Here are some case studies. Comments (4).

Cleaning the Gowanus: Mayor Bloomberg last night trashed a federal proposal to dub the toxic Gowanus Canal a “Superfund site,” saying that such a designation would stifle private investment near the waterway and impede the city’s own environmental remediation. Comments (13).

Cleaning the Gowanus: On the eve of Tuesday’s public forum about a proposal to declare the toxic Gowanus Canal a Superfund site, opposing factions are slinging sludge about the seemingly beneficial idea of approving the polluted channel for a federal clean-up. Comments (14).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The fetid Gowanus Canal is on track for a federal clean-up — but it could also flush the canal zone’s first major residential complex. Comments (8).