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According to legislative observers, the chances are good that Cambridge will be reimbursed to some extent for its cleanup...
Back in Washington, the Justice Department's Division of Land and Natural Resources revealed plans to sue some of the more than 200 companies responsible for dumping hazardous wastes from 1955 to 1972 at the 22-acre Stringfellow Acid Pits near Riverside, Calif. The aim: to recover cleanup costs, now calculated to run as high as $40 million...
...Stringfellow site has been at the center of charges, under investigation by the FBI and congressional subcommittees, that former EPA Administrator Anne Burford last year withheld federal cleanup funds from California for political reasons. Newly appointed EPA Head William Ruckelshaus is doing his own kind of tidying up: his aides are busy screening candidates for top EPA jobs, almost all of which are now vacant...
...dirty business of industrial garbage, Waste Management, Inc., of Oak Brook, Ill., has always presented a squeaky-clean face to the public. When outsiders visited a cleanup site in Seymour, Ind., for instance, they saw work crews in protective clothing taking samples from drums of hazardous refuse for white-coated chemists to analyze in nearby laboratories. Other neatly uniformed workers transported the waste to two of the company's 15 toxic-chemical disposal sites, where it was buried in a landfill under tons of clay or injected into a deep underground well. Such attention to niceties helped Waste Management...
...Lucia, to such coastal powers as Venezuela, Mexico and the U.S., took a long step toward improving the region. At a meeting in the old Spanish colonial port city of Cartagena, Colombia, a majority gave initial approval to two treaties that should help encourage cooperative action toward a cleanup. One of those pacts governs all types of pollution; the other deals specifically with oil spills. Negotiated under the auspices of the U.N. Environment Program, the treaties are relatively toothless declarations of good intent. But they have one notable aspect: the enthusiastic backing of such foes as the U.S. and Cuba...