Cleaning the Gowanus: Federal officials have identified three “hot spots” of intense contamination — and the source of cancer-causing toxic vapors — along the polluted Gowanus Canal. Comments (2).

Cleaning the Gowanus: National Grid is charged with cleaning up all three “hot spots,” and has yet to determine what the work will cost. Here’s the status at each of the sites. Comment.

Cleaning the Gowanus: Locals dig up sidewalks to help save the world (or at least the Gowanus Canal). Comments (8).

Cleaning the Gowanus: A chemical company with two dirty Red Hook plants agreed this week to help foot the bill for the $1-billion Superfund cleanup of the Gowanus Canal — oh, but there’s one catch: the company is bankrupt. Comments (3).

Cleaning the Gowanus: A floral sponge is about to start soaking up the stink in the Gowanus Canal. Comments (1).

Cleaning the Gowanus: A temporary system that will pump oxygen into the Gowanus Canal will also inject recreational opportunities along the still-fetid waterway, officials insisted this week. Comments (1).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The clean-up of the smelly Gowanus Canal is really going to stink for people in the Columbia Street Waterfront District. Comments (1).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The future of the toxic Gowanus Canal zone can be bright — if the waterway is cleaned and thousands of new residential apartments are built, a new report argued this week. Comments (3).

Cleaning the Gowanus: State authorities have discovered “unacceptable” levels of cancer-causing chemicals near Red Hook Park — and the villain is the same company recently fingered by the feds for fouling the Gowanus Canal. Comment.

Cleaning the Gowanus: We’re live on the conference call about the federal government’s decision over Superfunding the Gowanus Canal. Keep clicking refresh! It doesn’t get more exciting, or live, than this! Comments (4).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The federal government has widened its search for the culprits responsible for making the Gowanus Canal one of the most polluted spots in the nation, giving it the dishonor of being named a Superfund site earlier this week. Comments (4).

Cleaning the Gowanus: Superfund designation is a good development for the Gowanus — but it’s also fraught with problems. Comments (11).

Cleaning the Gowanus: We’re live on the conference call about the federal government’s decision over Superfunding the Gowanus Canal. Keep clicking refresh! It doesn’t get more exciting, or live, than this! Comments (4).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The Old Gray Lady mixed up Brooklyn’s fetid bodies of water in its Superfund coverage today! Comment.

Cleaning the Gowanus: Here’s a timeline from the early Dutch settlers to today’s Superfund announcement. Comments (1).

Cleaning the Gowanus: On eve of federal Superfund announcement — 10 am today! — opponents of Superfund trot out a new argument against the designation. Comments (4).

Cleaning the Gowanus: Oh, but it’s so different than the Gowanus Canal, don’t you know? Comments (7).

Cleaning the Gowanus: The proposed site of a Whole Foods store along the Gowanus Canal may remain nothing more than a hole, but at least it will be a decontaminated one. Comments (4).