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...Cleanup man Danny Hughes then lined a three-RBI double to the left-center gap, giving the Bears the lead and chasing Bruton from the ball game. Brown scored twice more in the inning off of three straight hits—the first off reliever Curtis Miller, the second two off of senior Jason Brown—before a strikeout ended the inning...
With the EPA's clout slackening, private attorneys are moving in. At Tar Creek, lawyers are suing seven mining companies on behalf of scores of lead-exposed children. A separate suit demanding a cleanup was filed by the Quapaw Indians, whose land was leased for the mines. And environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined a class action to force companies to relocate the population of two polluted towns, Picher and Cardin. Court papers suggest that mining executives knew as early as the 1930s that the contaminated dust was dangerous but sought to, in their words, "dissuade" the government from...
...extreme case. But like Tolstoy's unhappy families, every Superfund site is tragic and contentious in its own way. In Libby, Mont., a massive mine blanketed the town with asbestos dust, killing at least 215 people and sickening 1,100 more with cancer and lung disease--yet cleanup funds have been cut so sharply that it could take 10 to 15 years to finish the job. In Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, miners dumped 60 million tons of toxic metals into waterways, but state officials are fighting a Superfund cleanup, fearing a stigma that might hurt tourism. In New York, General...
...given up hope. Even the EPA, which has spent $107 million at the site, isn't sure if it can ever be repaired. "We don't have an off-the-shelf remedy," says EPA Superfund official Randy Deitz. "What do you do with the enormous chat piles? When does cleanup become impracticable? We have limited resources." In a show of no-confidence, the Oklahoma legislature last week passed a $5 million buyout for all families with children under 6. John Sparkman, who heads the Tar Creek Steering Committee, a group of buyout supporters, veers between cynicism and despair. "They think...
...have the courage to do after Sept. 11, 2001: ask for sacrifice. His “Service for College” plan will provide either full tuition or financial assistance to over 500,000 college students in return for national service such as tutoring young and/or underprivileged children, environmental cleanup and homeland defense. Kerry will also work with our allies to bring peace to Iraq, and repeal Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest so we can afford universal health care and real homeland security...