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...emphasizes self-regulation by business. It also, importantly, waives pollution controls during economic slowdowns. Now Bush wants to change the way government has funded environmental cleanups since the Reagan era. And his proposed changes may prove to be something of an amnesty for many corporations penalized under the Superfund sites...
...York Times reports that Bush's 2003 budget proposes to slash the Superfund's primary source of income - a tax aimed at industrial polluters that once generated about $1 billion a year. The onus for paying now shifts to the taxpayers, who will cover $700 million, or more than 50 percent, of the fund's budget. The White House also advocates curtailing the roster of sites covered by the fund, down from the current 1,551. What's the logic behind the cutbacks? Bush staffers tell the Times that there aren't any manageable sites left to clean - only...
...Connor founded the National Toxics Campaign, which was was instrumental in passing the $8 billion Superfund federal environmental cleanup...
...four fully certified councils in Massachusetts, Cambridge’s LEPC was created after Congress passed the Superfund Amendment and Renewal Act (SARA) in 1986, which mandated statewide and local emergency planning teams. About 150 other LEPCs statewide are in the process of gaining full accreditation...
...national brownfields initiative, launched five years ago by Vice President Al Gore, has a new champion in George W. Bush, who budgeted $98 million for the effort this year--$5 million more than Bill Clinton. "The Superfund program of today has evolved and is focusing not only on protecting public health and the environment but also on reuse and development," Whitman says...