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...River, which waters farms and ranches in the San Luis Valley. After a required bond for reclamation costs was raised from $2.2 million to $7.2 million, Galactic Resources Ltd., the mine's Canadian owner, abruptly declared bankruptcy and walked away last December. Summitville is now a Superfund site, and cleanup may run as high as $100 million...
Uncle Sam's big toxic cleanup is a failure -- and a legal nightmare...
...acre site in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, the EPA cited 160 responsible parties. At the Petro Processors sites near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where 62 acres of land are saturated with liquid petrochemical wastes, cleanup is expected to last well into the 22nd century, in part because of endless lawsuits filed by and against the large corporations -- including U.S. Steel, Dow Chemical, Exxon Corp. and Allied Chemical -- charged with polluting. Bryant Conway, an attorney who represents a landowner with property near the Petro Processors sites, says the companies he deals with use lawyers to stall the cleanup process by legal means. "None...
Even when a company or individual has agreed to pay damages and follows all the EPA's rules, there is no guarantee that current cleanup procedures will ! work or that lawsuits will not continue to be filed against that company or individual indefinitely. That is because the EPA has never produced a legally acceptable definition of how much of any given contaminant is permissible in air, water and soil...
This uncertainty produces the bizarre result that cleanup goals differ by site. In the South Cavalcade site near Houston, for instance, officials accept 700 times as much contamination by pah (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) as they do on the North Cavalcade site, even though the sites are separated only by a highway...