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...group, however, has more competition than that. School clean-up squad from all over the country send in the required number of wrappers frequently, a sales manager at the company said yesterday...
...from the School of Public Health last week released the results of a study showing a positive correlation between the chemical contamination and the unusually high rate of childhood leukemia in the town. And that link will likely make all the difference for the town's residents who seek clean-up of the site and reparations for the health damages...
...that the SPH team has stepped in and paved the way for Woburn, the residents of the town will have an easier time claiming reparations and perhaps forcing a clean-up of the area. Although, since it used statistics, the study was not able to prove definitive cause and effect, it did establish that the more exposure residents had to water from two contaminated wells, the higher their risks of leukemia and other diseases. Woburn's childhood leukemia rate is two and a half times the national average. A group of six families has already made plans for a lawsuit...
Toxic waste is a national problem, with which individual states are simply not equipped to deal. But what has the federal government done about clean-up? The $1.6 billion Superfund program Congress passed four years ago was designed to fund clean-up of sites with revenue from a tax on the chemical companies themselves. This "revolving fund," however, never completely recovered the money it spent on costly legal suits to enforce liability...
...made. But Congress realized three years ago that contamination of our world by deadly chemicals could dwarf all previous environmental problems combined. To battle this growing disaster, they created the so-called "Superfund," a $1.6 billion appropriation to the EPA for locating toxic waste, prosecuting law-breakers, and enforcing clean-up and prevention. Mrs. Burford's mismanagement of this fund--including an unaccounted loss of $53.6 million of it--prompted her investigation by Congress and eventual resignation. Mr. Ruckelshaus should concentrate his efforts in this area; obviously he has not done enough...