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Dallas isn't alone in recognizing that developers hungry for cheap industrial sites help keep dollars and jobs from fleeing to the suburbs. Environmentalists too are beginning to see brownfields' redevelopment as a way to preserve pristine spaces in the exurbs. Even the EPA, whose Superfund efforts in the 1980s caused many landlords to fence in and lock up sites, has loosened its regulatory oversight since 1995. While developers could technically still be held liable for past contamination, nonlitigation agreements between Washington and 16 states--including Texas--are a wink and a nod by the feds to encourage the cleanup...
...Welch has also come under fire recently for shirking GE's obligation to clean the upper Hudson River, the biggest toxic site on the Superfund list of the Environmental Protection Agency...
...record when it comes to clean air, shore protection and farmland preservation, she has consistently supported the interests of big business. She was famously lax when it came to regulating pollution by private companies, as evidenced by the fact that the Garden State remains the number one location for Superfund sites (and also the number one target for "smelly Turnpike" jokes). Coincidentally, and unfortunately, the EPA's major area of jurisdiction involves patrolling private companies. God help us if the whole country winds up like Newark...
...reincarnation. They have survived far worse, particularly the collapse of mining. More than 100,000 people once lived in this city (current pop. 35,000), and it acquired two nicknames: "the Richest Hill on Earth" (the relentless digging of Butte's copper turned it into the nation's largest Superfund site) and "the Perch of the Devil." It was where miners could rise from the underground to, as local booster Donal Moylan puts it, "fight, f___ and drink...
Your report on campaign contributions [BIG MONEY & POLITICS, Feb. 7] mentioned changes in the Superfund law that relieved scrap-material dealers of liability at toxic-waste sites. The intent of Congress in passing Superfund legislation was to clean up contaminated waste sites and to promote, not harm, the recycling industry. Scrap materials are not waste. They are recyclable. But for more than 10 years, it has been necessary for those in the recyclable-scrap business to fight to have them correctly labeled not as waste but as reusable materials. The law you referred to was supported by 69 Senate...