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...FORCE. McClellan Air Force Base, 10 miles northeast of Sacramento, California, is on the EPA's Superfund worst-case list, and virtually every other air base has its share of problems. Maintenance crews at McClellan used powerful solvents to strip paint from F-15 aircraft and remove grease from F- 111 engine parts. A major electroplating operation dumped chrome, lead and other metals into the ground. Altogether, the Air Force has discovered 177 toxic sites on McClellan's 3,500 acres. Local water wells have been shut down because of contamination. At one site, the TCE level...
Prodded by environmentalists and Congress, the Pentagon is beginning to act. So far, officials have identified 10,924 hazardous hot spots at 1,877 installations, including 123 of the Superfund's 1,236 sites. At a time of shrinking defense budgets, environmental cleanup is the fastest-growing category of military expenditure -- up 18%, from $2.9 billion last year to $3.4 billion in new 1993 funding...
...governor, Clinton frequently ignored calls by environmentalists to challenge EPA decisions in cases of toxic-waste management, water quality and wilderness protection. Jacksonville, located 12 miles north of Little Rock, is home to three Superfund sites that contain high levels of dioxin and other toxic industrial chemicals that have been seeping into groundwater and soil and environmental groups challenge Clinton's conclusions that these sites do not pose a significant health problem...
...just south of Washington, the football teams that play there may have to wear moonsuits. Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency say that after years of creosote soaking and casual dumping of chemical wastes at the onetime railroad switching station, the area is so contaminated it could qualify for Superfund environmental treatment...
More than any other single factor, it is the federal Superfund act that gave environmental law its impetus. "Some have suggested that the statute was the public works act of the 1980s for lawyers," says Tulane University law professor Robert Kuehn. The complex legislation, which created a trust fund in the billions to treat hazardous waste sites, mandates that polluters should be held responsible for the costs of cleaning up. What keeps Superfund lawyers busy is the effort to determine exactly who should be found liable. For example, should it be the firm that discharged the waste, the current property...