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...Kempthorne left his U.S. Senate seat in 1998 to become governor of Idaho, where the salmon and wolf populations, dairy-farm pollution and a Superfund cleanup have captured attention in recent years - as have his conservative appointments to the state Fish and Game Commission. Kempthorne's stature as a former senator and twice-elected governor may make him attractive to the Bush administration. It's not the first time his name has been floated for a top job - Republicans spoke of him as a potential running mate for Bob Dole in 1996. But his long experience also means the environmental...
Boxer, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chairs the subcommittee in charge of Superfund and other toxic waste management programs...
Although in a perfect world every polluter would pay for its own mess, the Superfund plays the necessary role of cleaning up sites for which no company takes responsibilty. Numerous small projects have been completed successfully, but many big ones remain, and they can’t get started without money. Instead of ensuring an impoverished future for the Superfund, Bush should have tried to reinstate the tax on polluting industries to pay for cleanup costs. He had the opportunity to right the mistake his Republican compatriots made in 1995 and to reassure centrists that he cares about the environment...
Bush’s action guarantees that the Superfund will get less and do less. What was once a self-sufficient federal operation is now yet another under-funded government program. The Superfund will be subject entirely to the whims of Congress, and a tight congressional budget almost guarantees a drop in funding for the program. The current dearth of corporate money in the fund is already having an effect; several projects have been delayed due to a lack of funding. While the Bush administration estimated that 65 sites would be cleaned up in its first year, only 47 sites...
...special brand of conservatism that cares for ordinary people and the environment, but once again he failed to follow through. It is the height of hypocrisy to pass a tax cut that supposedly benefits ordinary Americans, as Bush did last year, and then shift the tax burden of the Superfund to working class Americans later, as he is doing now. The Superfund was about justice; those who greedily polluted America’s natural resources had to pay. Now it seems that polluters can destroy our environment with impunity...