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...gets the impression from your article that virtually nothing has been done under the Superfund to clean up hazardous-waste sites. Nothing is further from the truth. Since early 1983, EPA has pursued an aggressive cleanup program. Long-term cleanup is under way at more than 400 national sites. At 300 other locations, immediate threats to human health and the environment have been eliminated and cleanup has been completed...
Your allegation that EPA "dribbled away" most of its Superfund resources "on a mismanaged effort" is inaccurate. All $1.6 billion authorized by Congress during the program's first five years has been spent effectively and with full accountability. The Superfund is definitely not the "feckless and confused" boondoggle you attempted to present. Lee M. Thomas, Administrator Environmental Protection Administration Washington...
Several Sierra Club activists traveled to Washington in September to lobby for a strong Superfund law. We were shocked to learn that some Congressmen did not understand the impact of this year's Superfund proposal, which is much weaker than the one passed by the House in 1984. Public health is not an issue that should be sacrificed for political infighting. Doris Cellarius, Chair Hazardous Materials Committee Sierra Club San Francisco...
...KERRY: He wants to reinstate the so-called polluter-pays tax on makers of chemicals and oil products and use that money to expand the Superfund program for cleaning up contaminated sites. He promises to expand the Clean Air Act, which was scaled back by the Bush Administration. To reduce U.S. oil consumption, Kerry proposes incentives for research in renewable energy and tax credits for buyers and manufacturers of hybrid cars. --By Jyoti Thottam
DIED. ANNE BURFORD, 62, contentious former head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during Ronald Reagan's presidency; of cancer; in Aurora, Colo. The second highest woman in the Reagan Administration, she was a lightning rod for environmentalists as she slashed the EPA budget and scaled back Superfund payments in the name of states' rights and sensible regulation. After two years, she was forced to resign following her refusal to hand over toxic-waste documents to Congress. "I was a small fish on the way to a big fry," she said later...