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...stonewalling and bureaucratic inertia. The U.S. government has spent $27 billion on the effort and forced individual polluters to spend an additional $21 billion. Love Canal, the deadly dump in New York State that spurred the law's passage, has been capped with a layer of clay, and the EPA proposed last month to take it off the list. So far, 278 sites have been delisted. But there are thousands more out there. According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), 1 out of 4 Americans still lives within four miles of a Superfund site--many of them killing fields saturated...
...followed the standard, if dubious, practices of the day--dumping toxic waste in rivers, burying it in leaky drums or just leaving it, as in Oklahoma, to blow in the wind--they would be held accountable. And if they refused to clean up their messes, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would do so for them and charge treble damages for its trouble. In the event that the perpetrators had disappeared or gone out of business, a general tax on polluting industries--a "Superfund"--would pay to fix the damage...
...GOOD It took real smarts to become the first female Governor of New Jersey and the head of the EPA...
...EPA, investigating a potential link between lung cancer and the chemicals released in the air when making a bag of popcorn, will announce that it’s probably not such a good idea to eat the imitation butter flavoring either...
...story of the Atlas site is not extraordinary. Indeed, there are over a thousand superfund sites languishing on EPA lists that continue to be a danger to communities across the country. And just this week, for the third year in a row, Bush added an unusually low number of new sites to the National Priorities List and encouraged Superfund budget cuts...