Brown's Superfund
The Brown Superfund Research Program (SRP)—Toxicant Exposures in Rhode Island: Past, Present, and Future—uses its highly successful paradigm of academic-government-community partnerships to tackle environmental health and remediation concerns in Rhode Island, an appropriate geopolitical context for interdisciplinary initiatives.
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NIEHS Fact Sheet

NIEHS Superfund
The National Institute Of Environmental Health Sciences' Superfund Research Program (SRP) provides funding for research programs that support the work of the EPA's Superfund. 
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USEPA Superfund
Superfund is the federal government's program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. 
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National Priorities List (NPL) 
The NPL is a list of the locations that are of most concern for either known or suspected pollution in the United States. There are currently 12 National Priorities List sites in Rhode Island. 
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Superfund Sites in RI
The USEPA has placed 12 sites in Rhode Island on the National Priorities List (NPL).

Rhode Island's Brownfields 
Brownfields are real property; the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. Brownfield sites include all "real property" including residential, as well as industrial commercial properties. The law further defines the term "brownfield site" to include a site that is "contaminated by a controlled substance . . . is contaminated by petroleum or a petroleum product excluded from the definition of 'hazardous substance' . . . is mine-scarred land." 
Reinvesting in Rhode Island's Brownfields