Word: superfunded
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...only to compound. Two internal reports came to light last week that are not likely to assuage public worries about how well the EPA is protecting the environment. One, commissioned two months ago, is an in-house EPA review of the $1.6 billion hazardous-waste cleanup program known as Superfund. Its conclusion: philosophical conflicts about bureaucratic strategies and efficiencies led to major problems. Infighting between headquarters and regional offices, said the report, effectively stopped the program from going forward. It cast official bickering over procedures and a preoccupation in Washington with saving money in terms of a classic bureaucratic foul...
...advisers had botched the EPA crisis from start to finish. She said that she thought Reagan had received bad advice and that she had opposed his decision to withhold subpoenaed documents from House subcommittees probing charges of mismanagement, conflict of interest and political favoritism in the $1.6 billion Superfund program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps...
Equally disturbing were reports that the main subject of the investigation, the agency's "Superfund"--money designated to help clean up hazardous waste dumps--had been turned into a political weapon. One particularly glaring example is the convincing charge that Superfund dollars were diverted from a project to clean up a toxic waste site in California to damage former governor Jerry Brown's 1982 Senate attempt...
...right for states to bear the burden of this national, interstate problem, as the Massachusetts State legislature is trying in its creation of a $25 million state Superfund to clean up 50 of the worst Massachusetts hazardous waste dumps, including three of the EPA-determined worst...
Lavelle underwent a harsh 4½-hour grilling at the hands of the Senate Environment Committee, before which she voluntarily appeared after failing to respond to subpoenas from two House subcommittees that had been investigating the Superfund. If she had hoped to receive more sympathetic treatment from the Republican-controlled body, she miscalculated. Republican Senator Robert Stafford told Lavelle sternly that she had "created the impression that your agency may be in bed with polluters." Fellow Republican Senator John Chafee complained that she had been "extremely insensitive" about the appearance of impropriety in her frequent lunches and dinners with chemical...