Environmental Organizations Seek To Bolster Waning Superfund Program

Louis Gibbs and other environmental activists seek to reinstate "polluter pays" fees in order to help defray the burden on individual taxpayers.

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October 1, 2005, 1:00 PM PDT

By C. Scott Smith

"The federal Superfund has cleaned up 936 sites, but more than 1,200 toxic sites remain on the Superfund list.

'Polluter pays' fees expired in 1995 and since Oct. 1, 2003, funding from fees imposed on industries have been exhausted. Taxpayers are bearing the burden of the Superfund's $1.2 billion annual cleanup costs, the groups said.

'This unfair situation has occurred since the Bush Administration made a policy decision to give polluters a free ride and pass the bill on to taxpayers,' said Lois Gibbs, executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice."

FULL STORY: Environmental groups decry state of Superfund

Saturday, October 1, 2005 in The Business Review

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