State environmental officials are continuing to float the idea of building a renewable energy project on the site of the abandoned asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell. Voters in the towns refused last month to declare the mine a Superfund site, which would have provided money to clean it up.

The federal and state government can't afford to clean up an abandoned asbestos mine in northern Vermont now that voters have rejected a Superfund designation for the site. That's the word from the state Agency of Natural Resources, and the EPA.

VPR's Jane Lindholm talks with Chuck Schwer of the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation and Vermont Law Professor Martha Judy about Superfund sites and the cleanup process.